This Jennifer Flowers couldn’t even get the president to look at her.
Much less get him to help her find a job.
The Westchester resident found herself suddenly unemployed only hours before President Obama was due in lower Manhattan Monday to deliver a speech on the economy.
Instead of going home to sulk, Flowers decided to ask for a White House bailout.
She went to a drugstore near her downtown office and bought a $3.80 poster board and two $1 markers.
Then she joined the crowd listening to Obama outside Federal Hall and held up her new sign: “LAID OFF TODAY 9:30 A.M. HIRE ME.”
“The fact is, I needed to do something,” said the 41-year-old Mamaroneck woman, whose differently spelled namesake, Gennifer Flowers, nearly brought down Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign.
“I didn’t want to just go home. I stayed out there and did something that made me feel productive.
“I have no experience making signs. I’m not a protester, I’ve never done anything like this before,” said Flowers.
“I was just hoping to put the word out there about me and make some contacts.”
Flowers was among 12 people canned at the Council on Accreditation, which evaluates and certifies other not-for-profit outfits.
Flowers, 41, had no shortage of well-wishers during her five-hour stint outside Federal Hall, but never even saw Obama, who was led in and out through a back door.
“I heard he went out to lunch with President Clinton. I would have loved to have been there — you know, so they could have lunch with Jennifer Flowers,” she joked.
Flowers, who voted twice for Clinton and also supported Obama in the last election, said, “I get a lot of teasing.
“But I think it helps people to remember my name. I have good humor about it, and I spell it correctly.”
Flowers, who organized reviews of nonprofit organizations for her former company, said she harbors no bitterness against her ex-bosses.
She also supports Obama’s economic reforms.
“I think improvements have been made, and hopefully they’ll continue,” said Flowers.
“[The sign] wasn’t about [Obama] or my past company. It was just about my situation.”
Flowers’ only regret was not listing her e-mail [JFlowers543@aol.com] or phone number on the sign that mentions her MBA and background in continuing education.
“Hopefully, there’s an offer out there for me to be the CEO of a nonprofit,” she said.
Her ex-boss, Richard Klarberg, said, he had no beef with the woman he had just canned.
“[The termination] had nothing to do with Jennifer’s performance, or anything to do with Jennifer,” he said.