An ESPN staffer canned in March 2009 for repeatedly using the garbage can as a toilet is suing.

The $250-a-week worker, one of the Bristol, Conn., firm’s 72 original hires in 1980, claims that stress over threatened layoffs exacerbated her irritable-bowel syndrome.

A lawyer for the unidentified woman did not return calls for comment.

An ESPN spokesman said, “The suit is without merit.”