Spare a square

Woman’s suit claims bias over bathroom use

A BROOKLYN publicist claims she was flushed out of a boutique PR firm after complaining about a crappy bathroom policy that restricted the amount of toilet paper she could use.

Tracey Boudine, 50, says in a lawsuit that potty-mouthed honchos at Wise Public Relations on Bleecker St. endlessly mocked her for using toilet paper every time she went the bathroom.

“You just somehow don’t feel like a valued human being,” she told the Daily News.

In her suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Boudine claims that was “teased about her need to use the bathroom, and in particular, her need — as a woman — to use toilet paper more frequently when she did use the restroom.”

Her bosses, the suit adds, “went so far as to impose a limit on how much toilet paper Ms. Boudine could use.”

No such limitations were placed on male employees who were free to use as many sheets as they pleased.

Cut off from a sufficient supply of bathroom tissue, Boudine was “relegated to using nearby fast food restaurant and gym bathrooms” during her two years at the company, the suit says.

“You have to spend a lot of mental energy worrying about something that’s a basic biological function,” Boudine told The News.

“I would bring (restaurant) napkins back so I wouldn’t have to leave again.”

Boudine claims her superiors also denied her access to more lucrative clients, giving them to male coworkers instead.

The suit says she complained in March to Harrison Wise, the company’s founder and president, but her concerns were ignored.

Boudine’s lawyer sent a letter to Wise and the company on April 25, claiming she suffered discrimination and possibly harassment “on the basis of her gender.”

Boudine was fired “within hours” of the letter being sent, the suit says.

Attorneys representing Wise Public Relations said the firm doesn’t tolerate “any form of harassment or discrimination.”

“We are confident that once the facts of this case are presented, it will be clear that the claims are baseless, frivolous, and frankly absurd,” said a statement from Lisa Griffith and Littler Mendelson.

“We are certain there wasn’t any wrongdoing whatsoever.”

Boudine is seeking back pay, lost wages and unspecified damages, according the suit filed by lawyer Alexander Granovsky.