Crystal Alexander
Monique McCabe
FIERCE: Crystal Alexander (bottom right) and Monique McCabe (top right) are suing because their ex-boss Krissy DeMonte (above, right with a woman not involved in the lawsuit) allegedly pinched their butts. (
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All she needs are work boots and a hardhat!
A female manager at a Long Island-based national women’s organization was a catcalling, butt-slapping, lecherous boss from hell who propositioned the women she supervised and drove them out of the company, a new complaint says.
Krissy DeMonte — who appears in a Facebook photo playfully shoving another woman’s face into her breasts — allegedly unleashed her frisky fury at the National Association of Professional Women in Garden City between September 2010 and March 2012.
The company was created to empower women — but only DeMonte wielded the power within its walls, according to legal papers.
On a daily basis, DeMonte would slap the backsides of Monique McCabe and her colleagues and call them names like “vixen,” “cutie” and “hottie” — as well as “bitch,” “a–hole” and “dirtbag.”
“She’d say you’re hot, you’re sexy, no wonder why all the guys love you,” McCabe told The Post. “I was extremely humiliated. I felt disempowered. I didn’t know what to do. I felt lost.”
Colleague Crystal Alexander said she suffered similar abuse. “She would pass my desk, and while I was standing up she would smack me on my behind, grab my butt and pinch me as well,” Alexander said. “I think she’s obsessed with butts. It is very peculiar.”
McCabe and Alexander complained to the company’s human-resources department.
When word got back to DeMonte, McCabe said, the supervisor became hostile and retaliated by writing them up for frivolous acts.
Months later, McCabe was fired, according to the lawsuit against the organization, which was filed by their lawyers Michael Borrelli and Alexander Coleman.
The paperwork includes the provocative photo of DeMonte.
“What they claim to do is to empower women, mentor them and help them succeed and reach their goals,” McCabe said.
“But as an employee, I was treated entirely differently, being treated like a sex object, being spoken to like that when you’re trying to earn a living.
“That’s not exactly empowering women and helping them succeed. They are not practicing what they preach.”
DeMonte could not be reached for comment, and a company lawyer did not return calls.
Star Jones, the company’s national spokeswoman, said through a rep that she can’t comment on pending litigation, but “she considers sexual harassment an extremely serious matter.”