A woman claims her female boss tried to “groom” her for a sexual encounter, even showing up in her hotel room and stripping down to her skivvies in a bid to hit the sheets.
Natalia Mazzuchelli of Putnam County said in a lawsuit that life under supervisor Shirley Anderson at Australian tech company Immutable was replete with “graphic” talk of sex which began at their first meeting.
During the September 2022 chat, Anderson over-shared about her affinity for “being choked” and sleeping with multiple partners.
And just days after Mazzuchelli started at the company, Anderson asked to borrow “going out clothes” while the two were on a work trip in San Francisco — then insisted on returning them to Mazzuchelli’s hotel room at the end of the night, where Anderson disrobed in front of her, Mazzuchelli said in legal papers.
Wearing her bra and undies, the married, Sydney, Australia-based Anderson then allegedly said she would move forward with an affair and “proceeded to touch her own breasts and asked Mazzuchelli whether she should get a ‘boob job.'”
Mazzuchelli escaped to the bathroom, where she called a friend who then showed up at the hotel room, prompting Anderson to “suddenly” dress and leave, she said.
At work, Anderson “began to inundate Mazzuchelli with questions and stories about group sex, bisexuality, anal sex, extramarital affairs and Anderon’s assessment of the sex lives of company executives,” the worker claims in a Manhattan Federal Court complaint against the company.
The boss noted one executive “needs to have more sex,” while another was in a “religious marriage . . . but might be open to having sex and other relationships,” and that a third supervisor was calm because he has “more sex,” Mazzuchelli said in court papers.
“In an obvious effort to lure Mazzuchelli into a sexual encounter, Anderson expressed her desire to sleep with more women and ‘keep exploring sexually,'” according to the litigation.
She told Anderson in April that she was pregnant, prompting Anderson to question whether she could do the job and issue a negative performance review, said Mazzuchelli.
She complained and was fired without explanation days later.
Anderson, who left the company in May, could not immediately be reached.
A spokeswoman for Immutable said the company “strongly rejects the allegations as without merit and will be vigorously defending the action,” before declining further comment.