Wardrobe Malfunction

Wardrobe Malfunction

Posted on June 4th, 2010 by Glenn Giangrande

There should never be a case in which men blame a lack of productivity at the office on a woman’s attire.

The blogosphere has been sparked by one such situation involving 33-year-old Debrahlee Lorenzana suing Citigroup because she felt she was fired from her job with Citibank only for wearing clothes that were too distracting to her male colleagues and supervisors. Too distracting? Shouldn’t the onus be on the men in this case to, you know, focus on their jobs?

It’s a situation that is no different from cube dwellers who spend time surfing the gossip sites, Facebook, or any other content that might make it through company firewalls. When it’s time to work, the job has to be done. If it’s not, those people need to be held accountable. Try to imagine someone being chewed out by a supervisor and saying “hey, it’s not my fault I’m easily distracted. It’s your fault for allowing me to be distracted.” They’d probably be cleaning out their desk quickly regardless of age, gender, or background.

For even implying that they could be thrown off simply by the way a female looked, any of the men who might have spurred on this lawsuit deserve to have their own employment status evaluated.