NN, an employee of a well-known real estate financing company, had a harrowing time with her boss, a senior vice-president and father figure to everyone in the organisation. From an occasional compliment about her looks, it became a daily irritation. He would touch her inappropriately and pretend it was an accidental brush. He would suddenly creep up behind her when she was working and stand uncomfortably close to her. Since her husband’s business was going through a financially critical period, she needed to stay in the job, at least for a while as she earned a high salary. Two months into the harassment, she slapped him one day in full glare of everyone in the office.