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J.Crew executive taunts after mass firing

Alejandro Rhett, J.Crew’s vice president of men’s merchandisingElizabeth Lippman

Hours after telling members of his team they were laid off, a J.Crew veep danced on their graves at a nearby bar with fellow survivors — posing for celebratory photos that were hash-tagged with “Hunger Games” jokes.

Alejandro Rhett, vice president of men’s merchandising, personally delivered the bad news to several workers who were among the 175 layoffs at the struggling company on June 10, sources told The Post.

Rhett then hightailed it from J.Crew’s East Village headquarters to the Linen Hall bar, where he and other still-employed colleagues threw back drinks, the photos show.

In one shot, Rhett and a female pal literally jumped for joy, with the executive hoisting a drink in his right hand and pointing his left finger to the sky, “Number One”-style.

Hashtags attached to the pic — which scored 33 “likes” — included #hungergames and #maytheoddsbeeverinyourfavor.

The latter is a reference to the encouragement given to the teens who are forced to fight to the death in the blockbuster series of “Hunger Games” books and action movies.

Rhett and J.Crew employee Julie Stamos also posed for a “casual photo shoot” outside the watering hole, modeling preppy clothing and sunglasses.

In one of those shots, the 31-year-old Rhett flipped the bird to photographer and underling Vanessa de Jesus, who works in J.Crew’s men’s merchandising department.

Stamos posted the photo, tagging it #forthewin and #damnitfeelsgoodtobeagangster.

Rhett even likened himself to one of the villains in the classic teen comedy “Mean Girls,” writing, “On Wednesdays we wear monochrome pleated shorts” — a play on a famous line uttered by character Gretchen Wieners.

Rhett also jokingly used the tag #nofunhere for a group selfie shot by J.Crew retail men’s merchandiser Andrew Ruth.

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All of the pictures have since been scrubbed from the Internet.

One J.Crew insider blasted the timing and Rhett’s “poor judgment.”

“It’s just inappropriate that you’d be out drinking when people on your team had been laid off,” the source said.

“J.Crew has serious issues right now, and no one in the office had a smile on their face that day.”

A J.Crew spokesman said the company “does not condone” the behavior of Rhett and the others, adding, “As soon as we were made aware, the appropriate actions took place.”

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The company spokesman would not elaborate.

Last week’s layoffs followed a first-quarter earnings report that showed a 5 percent drop in J.Crew’s sales and an overall operating loss of nearly $521 million.

Experts blamed the unraveling on the spectacular failure of a new crop-top women’s sweater dubbed the Tilly, which J.Crew tried to market as “the slightly shrunken cousin of our beloved Tippi sweater.”

Earlier this week, the company drew fire over a page in its July 2015 catalog that shows a black male model along with the words: “Stripes: We Own Them” when it was posted online by a prankster who covered the word “stripes.”