[ClearCase_guy]

I worked with a woman who apparently had a long-standing rule: if you swear, you have to put $20 in a jar on her desk. I was new to the group. I said "Damn". She demanded $20. I said "No". She said, "It's either $20 or we go straight to Human Resources and I file a sexual harassment complaint."

I stood up and said, "Let's go."

We went. She got in a s***load of trouble for extorting money from employees. I transferred to a new department as soon as I could.

[Vigilanteman]

Good for you. I would’ve paid $20 to see the look on her face when her extortion racket was busted.

[dsrtsage]

That’s funny. I remember at one of our plants one of the “fast track to plant manager chicks because she was a chick chick” was a super hard core holier than thou, everything must be super proper, and god forbid anybody use a swear word in her presence (this included all of the construction people, iron workers, electricians, yada yada yada). Turns out this super proper married with children fast track girl, was having a hot steamy affair with one of the young star engineers (who also had a wife and kids)...and it turned out that this had happened before at another plant, and another state, and was hushed hushed because she was a fast track, and it would look bad if it got out, which is how she got moved in the first place.