By Mariel S. Clark
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — Two female employees at a downtown fitness club said they were sexually harassed by the club's manager and then fired when they complained, according to a lawsuit filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court Wednesday.
Former Battery Park Swim and Fitness employees Courtney McCallion and Maggie Alexander said the club's manager, David Anglin, regularly made inappropriate comments and unwanted advances, including snapping their bra straps and commenting on their cleavage.
"It made me feel dirty, like a piece of meat," McCallion, 25, told the Daily News.
Anglin "regaled the staff with sophomoric double entendres and sexualized and misogynistic nicknames for female employees," court documents said.
McCallion, Alexander and three other female employees complained to the gym's human resources department, but were told they would have to find a way to get along with the manager or they would be replaced, according to the lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages.
Within months of filing the complaints all five were fired in retaliation, the court documents said.
"All we were asking for was that he would be accountable," Alexander, 23, told the News. "After that I no longer felt valued as an employee. I was just another girl for him to ogle and harass."
