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JFK cargo boss masturbated at work: suit
While two female Delta cargo agents were busy handling baggage at Kennedy Airport, their boss was tending to his own package, according to a shocking new $10 million gender-discrimination lawsuit against the leading airline.
Former Delta employees Lauren Heffernan and Kayla Jenkins say they were fired last spring for reporting their boss’ disgusting habit of masturbating at work.
Queens residents Heffernan, 29, and Jenkins, 19, say supervisor Mike Keve, 56, had worked at Delta for 25 years and was supposed to be their mentor. Instead, he focused on his own needs, regularly pleasuring himself at his desk in a Delta office at the airport, according to their Manhattan Supreme Court suit.
Jenkins claims she first noticed Keve’s offensive habit when she heard his keyboard go silent at around 3:15 p.m on Feb. 4, 2016. “At that moment, Jenkins saw Keve sitting at his desk with his penis out,” the suit says.
Horrified, she texted Heffernan, who said she had witnessed the same thing once before.
Jenkins told a Delta director what happened, but he took no action, according to court papers. Instead, he allegedly joked to a general manager, “I’m horny. Hey Peter, let me sit at your desk and rub one out by the window so everyone could see.”
The suit says the crude quip was “a clear reference to Keve’s vulgar sexual conduct in the workplace” because his desk was next to a window.
Jenkins was canned in May after pressing the issue — ostensibly because she wasn’t working enough hours — the suit says.
Just days later, Heffernan looked up from her cubicle to see Keve “staring” at her as he reclined in his chair and masturbated, the suit says. She reported the incident but was told by a director’s assistant that it “didn’t happen.”
The suit claims Keve’s colleagues were worried the married Massapequa resident would lose his job over the conduct.
Heffernan was fired in May after asking to meet with someone from human resources. She was told she was let go for returning late from a lunch break, the suit says.
Delta spokeswoman Ashton Morrow said Heffernan and Jenkins were “legitimately terminated for reasons completely unrelated to any allegations of misconduct by others.”
Keve did not respond to messages for comment.