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   From: screwu@jcrew.com   
      
   Hours after telling members of his team they were laid off, a   
   J.Crew veep danced on their graves at a nearby bar with fellow   
   survivors — posing for celebratory photos that were hash-tagged   
   with “Hunger Games” jokes.   
      
   Alejandro Rhett, vice president of men’s merchandising,   
   personally delivered the bad news to several workers who were   
   among the 175 layoffs at the struggling company on June 10,   
   sources told The Post.   
      
   Rhett then hightailed it from J.Crew’s East Village headquarters   
   to the Linen Hall bar, where he and other still-employed   
   colleagues threw back drinks, the photos show.   
      
   In one shot, Rhett and a female pal literally jumped for joy,   
   with the executive hoisting a drink in his right hand and   
   pointing his left finger to the sky, “Number One”-style.   
      
   Hashtags attached to the pic — which scored 33 “likes” —   
   included #hungergames and #maytheoddsbeeverinyourfavor.   
      
   The latter is a reference to the encouragement given to the   
   teens who are forced to fight to the death in the blockbuster   
   series of “Hunger Games” books and action movies.   
      
   Rhett and J.Crew employee Julie Stamos also posed for a “casual   
   photo shoot” outside the watering hole, modeling preppy clothing   
   and sunglasses.   
      
   In one of those shots, the 31-year-old Rhett flipped the bird to   
   photographer and underling Vanessa de Jesus, who works in   
   J.Crew’s men’s merchandising department.   
      
   Stamos posted the photo, tagging it #forthewin and   
   #damnitfeelsgoodtobeagangster.   
      
   Rhett even likened himself to one of the villains in the classic   
   teen comedy “Mean Girls,” writing, “On Wednesdays we wear   
   monochrome pleated shorts” — a play on a famous line uttered by   
   character Gretchen Wieners.   
      
   Rhett also jokingly used the tag #nofunhere for a group selfie   
   shot by J.Crew retail men’s merchandiser Andrew Ruth.   
      
   All of the pictures have since been scrubbed from the Internet.   
      
   One J.Crew insider blasted the timing and Rhett’s “poor   
   judgment.”   
      
   “It’s just inappropriate that you’d be out drinking when people   
   on your team had been laid off,” the source said.   
      
   “J.Crew has serious issues right now, and no one in the office   
   had a smile on their face that day.”   
      
   A J.Crew spokesman said the company “does not condone” the   
   behavior of Rhett and the others, adding, “As soon as we were   
   made aware, the appropriate actions took place.”   
      
   The company spokesman would not elaborate.   
      
   Last week’s layoffs followed a first-quarter earnings report   
   that showed a 5 percent drop in J.Crew’s sales and an overall   
   operating loss of nearly $521 million.   
      
   Experts blamed the unraveling on the spectacular failure of a   
   new crop-top women’s sweater dubbed the Tilly, which J.Crew   
   tried to market as “the slightly shrunken cousin of our beloved   
   Tippi sweater.”   
      
   Earlier this week, the company drew fire over a page in its July   
   2015 catalog that shows a black male model along with the words:   
   “Stripes: We Own Them” when it was posted online by a prankster   
   who covered the word “stripes.”   
      
   http://nypost.com/2015/06/17/j-crew-exec-brags-about-surviving-   
   hunger-games-layoffs/   
       
      
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