What *really* happens in the Board Room

Today I was at an all-day meeting with my colleagues from the neighboring jurisdictions.  It was a grand total of six of us hashing out details of a labor/management issue.  As usual, I was the only female present.  However, the others felt free to openly use profanity in my presence.  The stories and quasi-humorous situations were flowing.  One of my colleagues even went into detail how his dog likes to "grab" his wife's leg (and yes, with the graphic conclusion) and now the ensuing marital conflict on where the dog sleeps.

The men have grown accustomed to my presence over the past 25+ years and I guess I take it as a backward compliment they speak the way they do in when I'm in the room.  They don't feel like they need to filter anything. 

The other topic of discussion involved the inner details of employers who are being criminally investigated by the D.A. office.  Why?  Because for one,  they were laundering wage rates through a computer program falsifying payroll records.  The other reason is that these employers were also withholding monies from employee paychecks for taxes to the federal and state governments, which they should be doing.  The problem was that the employer(s) did not then forward the money to the Franchise Tax Board nor the United States Treasury on the employees behalf.  Instead these employers thought it necessary to use employee tax withholding money to add on to their already obnoxious mansions, buy new cars, and take a trip to Africa.  The rotten employers think they have smartly hidden away their money where it can't be touched.  The rotten employers also think that the payments they made to their employees in "powder" are not part of the investigation.  We're talking millions of dollars.  The rotten employers have another thing coming.