Breast implants are okay for models, but a no-no for employees at magazine publisher Conde Nast. An employee was recently fired after showing off her new implants to friends in the office.
An unnamed employee at Conde Nast’s Brides magazine was recently terminated after showing her new breast augmentation to a pair of friends in her office.
According to the New York Post, however, there were no breasts in sight. The woman reportedly shut her office door, closed the blinds and lifted her shirt, showing the friends a sports bra-covered breast job.
“There was no nudity involved,” the former employee said in the Post story. “They were personal friends who I had known for years.”
In spite of the privacy – and lack of bare skin – word of the incident got around the office and finally landed in the human resources department as a filed complaint.
Two days later, the woman was unemployed.
“They said that based on additional information, which they did not share, that it was inappropriate and I was fired,” the employee said. “I was in complete and utter shock.”
Conde Nast publishes Glamour, Allure, Vogue and GQ – magazines that are often sexually suggestive, if not sexually explicit. The firing is thus “unbelievable when you consider the kind of images that are in Condé Nast magazines,” according to Daniel Mareck, the woman’s attorney.
The “additional information” cited in the woman’s termination remains a mystery. Also, Mareck added that the publishing company gave the woman no severance pay and is currently attempting to avoid paying unemployment insurance. And despite numerous online reports about the incident, and her own comments on the record, the woman has remained anonymous to make her job hunting less troublesome.
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