‘Peed’ off at my boss

MTA gal’s harass suit

An MTA dispatcher claims in a $2 million lawsuit that her boss made so many “snide” remarks when she went to the restroom that she avoided going, and ended up with kidney stones.

Catherine Gonzalez, 53, claims Mervin Reovan’s harassment, which she says included spitting on her, began when she was promoted from bus driver to dispatcher.

The veteran employee told The Post that she was the only female dispatcher at her workplace and was “mistreated right from the get-go.”

Gonzalez was “singled out” for being a Puerto Rican lesbian, she charges in her Manhattan federal suit against the MTA and Reovan.

“He didn’t like the fact that I’m a lesbian . . . He just couldn’t handle that. I walk like a guy, I have certain masculine mannerisms,” she said. “I couldn’t do anything to win him over.”

Other dispatchers got their own keys to the bathroom, but Gonzalez said she had to stop near Reovan’s desk to retrieve one every time she needed to relieve herself.

The alleged harassment left her so distraught that she developed kidney stones, the court papers say.

She then put off needed surgery until her yearlong probationary period in the job ended, leaving her in “excruciating pain.”

“I was so afraid that I said, ‘You know what? I’m gonna hold myself,’ ” Gonzalez recalled. “So I end up holding myself, and all of the sudden, one day, I wind up falling over [in pain] at home.”

Gonzalez transferred from The Bronx to Manhattan to avoid Reovan, only to find that the MTA had moved him to the same location, where he became her supervisor, she says in the court papers.

Then the harassment got worse, she claims.

Reovan would grow angry and even spat on her at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Gonzalez alleged.

He gave her a slew of disciplinary infractions for small errors, attempted to force her to work double and triple shifts, and ordered 35 total days of unpaid suspension, she charges in the suit.

“He was trying to make my life a living hell,” she said.

John Hague, Gonzalez’s attorney, said he hopes “her case brings about positive change in the MTA, as everyone deserves to be treated with respect and dignity at work.”

A MTA spokesperson declined to comment. Reovan did not respond to requests for comment.