Citibank fired employee for being too hot…or something
Debrahlee Lorenzana is filing a lawsuit against Citibank because they fired her, she says, for the strangest reason: she’s too hot. She’s 5’5”, 125 and well, you’ve seen her photo. "Where I’m from," she told the Village Voice, "women dress up—like put on makeup and do their nails—to go to the supermarket… I was raised very Latin. We’re feminine. A woman in Puerto Rico takes care of herself." Her bosses told her that "as a result of the shape of her figure, such clothes were purportedly ‘too distracting’ for her male colleagues and supervisors to bear," she says. [Her two male] managers gave her a list of clothing items she would not be allowed to wear: turtlenecks, pencil skirts, and fitted suits. And three-inch heels. [Business Insider]
Leave it to Citibank. I work at a bank too. Of course the bank that I work at is one – how should I put this? – doesn’t need to worry about this issue.
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That’s pretty ridiculous. She must’ve worn a few things that were a little riskay for them to fire her. Maybe they gave her those guidelines and she kept disobeying them… Who knows, but if I worked there I’d let her wear whatever she wanted!
The former employee of Citibank was expected to follow the organization protocol. All companies have “organizational cultures” determining the vision and direction of an companies. Dress code, code of conduct etc are part of this culture. Employees are therefore required to follow company’s policies. Citibank has the right to terminate an employee who fails to comply with the company’s policies. When employees are allowed to defined what is acceptable or not…the company would become a circus. Some individuals maybe full clothe while others maybe scantily clad. Societies have laws, like it or not, we need to follow.
The firing of Lorenzana by the citibank shows the double standard of the West. This has been the crux of arguments by the religious minorities living in the west. Now the truth comes out in the case of Lorenza. Why not allow her to show off her revealing bosom if she wanted to. why restrict her on dresses. Why not she be provocative.
A Muslim woman who wants to cover more will ask similar questions. Why not I cover as much as I wish to. why can not I be less provocative and less sexy? If the western countries are true to what they say about the fundamental rights, why interfere with the fundamental rights of Lorenza.In the same breathe why interfere with the fundamental rights of the Muslim women. It is sheer hypocrisy, bias, pretentious culture and open double standard. Even in the liberal West, it is an offence for women to go half naked. There are restrictions on dress even in Europe, is the contention of Muslims. The difference is only in degree when it comes to modesty.
Absolute freedom is non-existent in any culture. Being social animals, men and women have animal magnetism and sex appeal. One can never deny the fact that when a young man looking at a woman revealing a major part of her firm, round, shapely and bulging breasts gets sexually excited and would have train of quite often lewd thoughts in his mind. Hence religious laws on dress code. The West judges one set of rules as barbaric simply because OF ALIEN CULTURE BASE and another set as liberation