Man claims he was fired for turning down female coworkers

An ex-employee at a Manhattan public relations firm says he was canned after rejecting a barrage of come-ons by female coworkers, and now he’s suing.

Joseph Earl Jackson says he “endured” seven months of female admirers hugging him, kissing him and telling him “you are so handsome” at the offices of at Open Communications Omnimedia on W. 30th St.

The $ 35,000-a-year account coordinator claims the company’s chief strategist, Sally O’Dowd, told him “how she loved young black and Hispanic men” and “that she loved how sexy his chest and deltoids were in his white button down shirt,” according to the Manhattan sexual harassment suit.

O’Dowd even commented on her underling’s penis size after a client pitched a new product—a case with a condom inside.

The randy boss said the condom “probably wouldn’t fit Joseph.”

Jackson, who was hired in July 2013, claims O’Dowd also “without warning hugged him three times,” “sexually whispered in to his ear, ‘You are so handsome,” and kissed him on the back of the neck.

The incident left him “distraught,” he gripes in court papers.

But the alleged harassment did not stop with O’Dowd, another supervisor named Kathryn Campisano allegedly pursued Jackson on the sly, texting him last November, “When are we going to have our bang sesh?”

She followed up the query a month letter with a message that read, “I’m going to need you to be my next boyfriend Joseph,” the suit says.

But Jackson remained a loyal employee despite the distractions, he claims in court papers.

“Jackson endure, he continued to perform as a stellar employee,” and was even given more responsibility in mid-February.

When Jackson complained to Open Communications CEO John Andrew Morris, allegedly ridiculed him in front of his colleagues.

The PR honcho called Jackson “a hater that needed to be removed,” the suit says. He was canned on Feb. 21.

The harassment has left him feeling “extremely humiliated, degraded, victimized, embarrassed, and emotionally distressed.” Jackson is seeking unspecified damages.

Open Communication’s attorney Peter Gallagher said, “The court process is great because the scrutiny it entails allows the truth to come out and we think that when the court process is through the truth is going to show that these are all baseless allegations.”

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