LAID WASTE TO MY LIFE
Suit: Gross revenge in sex saga
A FORMER guidance counselor at a Queens elementary school had feces and urine dumped in her office after she complained about randy staffers who had sex romps between classes, according to a shocking lawsuit.
Deborah Berger, 65, says in the suit that after she complained to principal Robert Wojnarowski, he ratted her out to her horny coworkers, who made her life hell.
The horrors included dirt being dumped on her desk, feces left on her chair and urine spilled in her office, the Manhattan Supreme Court suit alleges.
Her personal pictures were defaced and stolen, Berger claims in legal papers.
Wojnarowski allegedly did nothing to help, and Berger says she had to leave her job and get psychological treatment as a re- sult of the stress.
The former counselor “suffered physical manifestations of stress and has become ill due to the stress,” according to the court papers, which were filed Thursday. “She has been unable to return to her usual duties.”
In 2010, Berger learned two other counselors at Public School 9 who began treating her counseling rooms like a hotsheets motel, according to the suit.
Berger, who’s worked in city schools since 1994, initially was friends with the two counselors and ignored their sexy shenanigans for years, her lawyer said.
But eventually Berger grew tired of being locked out of their shared office while her two coworkers made love.
“She had to approach them in their offices on work issues from time to time. When she did, the windows were blocked with a towel and their doors were locked,” said Jeffrey Melcer, Berger’s lawyer.
“They told her they were having a conference.”
But in 2013, the randy staffers’ X-rated actions became too much, and Berger reported it to Wojnarowski, who told her that he, too, was aware of the sex and had known about it for years, according to the court papers.
But instead of disciplining the horny staffers at the Maspeth school, Wojnarowski targeted Berger by giving her bad job performance ratings, and he told the lovers that Berger ratted them out, her suit alleges.
That’s when Berger’s office allegedly started being vandalized.
“They would be fighting — yelling and screaming,” Melcer said.
The tires of Berger’s car were slashed in June 2013 and that was the final straw that prompted her to take an unpaid leave of absence from her $88,426-ayear job, the suit says.
“The employees carrying out the inappropriate affair at work became overtly hostile to the plaintiff on a day-to-day basis,” says Berger’s deposition, which called the counselor’s plight a “life-threatening” situation.
Berger says she got sick from the stress and had to get psychological treatment. She wants her bad reviews erased, her job back and unspecified compensation.
Education Department officials declined to comment on the pending litigation but said Berger is free to return to work at any time. Wojnarowski declined to comment.