She says she lost her Citigroup job because of her unbearable pulchritude, but it's her big mouth that could cost Debbie Lorenzana her current job at Chase. Lorenzana, who is taking legal action against Citigroup after supervisors allegedly terminated her because they can't tolerate pretty women, has been all over the media since the Village Voice featured her in a cover story last week. Today she's set to appear on Good Morning America and the Today show, but her lawyer claims her bosses at Chase are trying to silence her.
"These are the people who've been gaming the system," her lawyer Jack Tuckner tells the Daily News. "Now they're saying she's making the industry look bad. They're circling the wagons for Citibank." Lorenzana, who works as a licensed personal banker at a Chase branch in Williamsburg, had already received approval to take today off in order to accommodate the TV interviews. But on Saturday night she says she got a text message from her manager saying her day-off request was cancelled. :( And she was told that if she went ahead with the scheduled television interviews today, she'd be terminated.
Lorenzana claims the gag order came all the way from the top, from Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. She tells the Post, "I was under so much stress, [my boss] said it wasn't up to her and that the only thing I can tell you is pray." Lorenzana defied the orders and did the interviews this morning anyway, so now her fate as an employed banker or future reality show star is in God's hands.
