A diminutive Upper East Side handyman is looking to make short work of the boss he says constantly mocked his height.
In a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit, Juan Pablo Pichardo says supervisor Moises Guimet would belittle him by referring to him as a “midget” and slapping him on his head.
Guimet’s little gibes also spilled over to Pichardo’s locker at the posh East 76th Street building where they both worked.
On one occasion, the suit says, Guimet affixed “a picture of a baby’s body” with Pichardo’s “face on the poster” on a locker.
Guimet also “posted several pictures of [dwarfs] on his locker,” the filing says.
Guimet wasn’t satisfied with just cutting Pichardo’s stature down to size either, the suit says.
He allegedly took aim at Pichardo’s religious beliefs by covering “his locker [with] pornography designed to insult plaintiff as a Christian.”
“Plaintiff has been subjected to demeaning and discriminatory comments and sometimes the comments were in front of coworkers,” Pichardo griped in the suit against Guimet and the building’s management company and co-op board.
The suit says Pichardo repeatedly complained to building managers Rose Associates about Guimet’s conduct, but they have “not done anything to stop these actions,” and they have ignored Pichardo’s pleas for a transfer.
Guimet said Pichardo is telling tall tales.
“It’s nonsense. It’s not true,” he said. “I loved him like he’s my son.
“He hurt me too much. I don’t know what he’s doing.”
The suit doesn’t say how tall Pichardo is, but people at the building described him as “quite short.”
Pichardo declined comment and his lawyer did not return calls.
A call to Rose Associates was not returned.