Granted, it’s been years since I sold my old law firm and opted to stay home raising my son — and now homeschooling him. It’s been even longer since I’ve worked for someone else. (What can I say, except that in addition to not playing well with others, I also run with scissors and swallow my gum?)

Even so, I recall having enough crappy jobs and even crappier bosses before that to know how much a cheerful ‘Good Morning!’ from one’s supervisor is worth. And, frankly, it ain’t ten million dollars.

A New York based investment banker is suing her firm after, she alleges, her boss greeted her each day with a cheerful ‘good morning’.

The banker, who cannot be named for legal reasons, enjoyed a 20 year career on Wall Street, but claims she was forced to leave her last role working for a major international investment bank as she was unable to cope when her boss behaved in a civilized way toward her.

According to the suit, filed Monday in the Court for the Southern District of New York, the 44 year old banker claims that her male boss ‘often came in smiling and had the audacity to utter the words ‘Good Morning’ as he passed by my desk’. She continued, ‘I have worked on Wall Street for almost two decades and my bosses have always totally ignored me. I felt intimidated. My boss’s behaviour was completely inappropriate, and his attitude was totally over-familiar. Even my husband, who I have known for 23 years, doesn’t speak to me in this manner. In fact, he doesn’t speak to me at all’.

I shit you not.