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New Jersey Woman Says She Was Fired For Being Too Busty
By ASHLEY JENNINGS | (ABC News)
A New Jersey woman says she was fired from her job after her manager told her to "tape her breasts" down, and now has filed suit against the company claiming religious and sexual discrimination.
Former data entry worker Lauren Odes said that after two days with Native Intimates, a midtown Manhattan wholesale lingerie company, a supervisor told her the store owners were not happy with her outfit, suggesting it was too "distracting."
"When I first started working there, I asked what the dress code was, and I was just told to look around and see what everyone else was wearing," Odes said in a press conference Monday. "So I did. The dress was very casual athletic wear to business attire."
Odes said the company owners are Orthodox Jews who were offended by her attire.
At a news conference announcing the suit, she said that at first she compromised, saying she'd wear a gray T-shirt and black jeggings with rain boots to work, but that wasn't enough.
"When my supervisors suggested that I tape down my breasts, I asked 'Are you kidding me?'" Odes said. "The supervisor said, 'Just cover up a little more.'"
The female supervisor then walked over to a closet, pulled out a bright red bathrobe decorated with pictures of guitars, and told Odes to put it on, she said.
"She told me to sit at my desk and wear it all day. I felt completely humiliated," Odes said. "She put the bathrobe on me and tied the belt and I returned to my desk wearing it."
Her supervisor then gave her the option of to go out and buy a sweater that "went to her ankles" instead of wearing the bathrobe, she said. After being ridiculed and made fun of by co-workers, Odes said, she obliged.
"I sat in the bathroom for a while crying. I'd prefer to go out and buy a sweater rather than sit there in the bathrobe feeling humiliated," Odes said.
But while she was out shopping for the sweater, the 29-year-old got a phone call saying she'd been terminated, she said.
Now, attorney Gloria Allred has filed suit against Native Intimates with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
"The treatment was discriminatory, profoundly humiliating and unlawful," Allred said.
This isn't the first time Allred has represented a client for allegedly being fired for what she was wearing.
Two years ago, she represented Debrahlee Lorenzana, a Queens, N.Y., woman who sued former bosses Citibank for banning her "sexy outfits and heels." Citibank ended up settling with Lorenzana.
Odes, who said she is also Jewish, said no employer has the right to impose their religious beliefs on employees.
"I do not feel an employer has the right to impose their religious beliefs on me when I'm working in a business that's not a synagogue, but sells things with hearts on the female genitals and boy shorts for women that say hot in the buttocks area," she said

8 comments

  • vincemichaels
    12 years ago
    Maybe, just maybe, she'll get a job at a club in NYC. LOL
  • shadowcat
    12 years ago
    vince - you should have included a link to her photo. I would hardly call her hot. But that is just me. :)
  • vincemichaels
    12 years ago
    You asked, shadowcat. Here she is: I don't know how hot she is, but I'd like to find out. :)

    http://gma.yahoo.com/photos/jersey-woman…
  • rickdugan
    12 years ago
    She looks like a pig. I doubt that she'd get hired in any Manhattan club. There are a few clubs in Queens and the Bronx that might take her, but that is about it.
  • samsung1
    12 years ago
    Interesting
  • Rod8432
    12 years ago
    I hate to say it, and am hoping to not over generalize, but day-um, some of those Jersey girls look rough! What with Snooki, then Patricia Krentcil the tanning bed mom, and now Lauren Odes, NJ isn't high on my list for babe scoping any time soon.
  • vincemichaels
    12 years ago
    Well, she doesn't have to be hired by a high-end club, rickdugan. I'm just curious about how big her breasts really are. As far as NJ women, the ones you mention do look somewhat rough, Rod8432. That tanning-bed mom in particular definitely looks rough, so be it. I like the roughness aspect, it seems to me they'd probably be more inclined to extras.
  • m00tpoint
    12 years ago
    Companies have long since been able to tell employees what to wear. It is the job of parents to teach their children (male and female) that not all people can wear the same sort of clothing with the same level of modesty. Apparently this either did not happen or this woman chose to wear "the same thing as other employees" even if it did not fit her body type or look professional. If the company felt her attire was too revealing for her body type (something I have to watch very carefully unless I am clubbing with my husband or going out in the evening) then she should have been quietly taken aside and then sent home to change. The bathrobe was humiliating and totally unnecessary. If it happened again she should have been warned or given a written notice. Honestly, this company, while within their rights to determine what she was to wear to work, is simply stupid. I assume they DID know how busty she was when they hired her. Since their instructions were to wear what everyone else was wearing and it seems (at least from the media report we have now) that she did that they just cost themselves a whole lot of $$.
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