Have you ever been offered a bribe?

[Admiral Yi]

Other night late a dude offered me $200 to squeeze him into the karaoke rotation.  Plenty of times people have flashed me a $20 and asked if this buys them the next spot.  This time I had to think about it.  Eventually said no.

Ever been in this situation?

[Sheilbh]

No. Never been in a position to be offered or offer a bribe.

[Zoupa]

Plenty of times as a pharmacist, yeah.

[DGuller]

I could never manage to get myself into a position to be offered one.

[Sophie Scholl]

Many, many times during my years in the bar industry. Even a few times in the tour industry.

[grumbler]

MY LSE prof tried to bribe me (money, not grades) to buy him a couple of bottles of The Famous Grouse at the Navy Exchange in London.  I turned him down, but bought a bottle and gave it to him when the course was over.

[Barrister]

Never offered a straight up bribe.

Frequently have to worry about the appearance of impropriety however.  I'll let defence counsel buy me a coffee, but nothing more than that.

One time when I worked in small-town Alberta my brother came to visit.  We were young, so we walked over to the local hotel for drinks (I lived out of town, so this was probably a 3km hike).  This was a town of a couple hundred people, tops.  Anyways we walk in, we get offered a beer on the house (my brother and I had had a few already, which is why we walked).  We happily accept.  We then get offered some shots I think, again on the house.  I immediately sober up - 'no thanks, we have to go'.  I'm pretty identifiable in that small town, I can't have anyone thinking I owe them.

[Syt]

No. Never been in a position to be offered or offer a bribe.

This

[Josquius]

Not that I know of.
But I'm very good at missing out on not very subtle queues and only many years later go "they wanted a threesome! Doh!"

I guess there was the time a software sales company offered free headphones for listening to their sales guy so I did it, the sales guy had nothing interesting to offer (and I wasn't the only decision maker even if they had) and I got no earphones.

[Iormlund]

Never a straight up bribe, no.

I've been taken out to dinner and such by suppliers, which some could consider a form of bribe. But in practice building a rapport with them is part of the job, really.

[celedhring]

Yes, but more of the "I'll buy you lunch if you do XXXX for me" variety, rather than straight cash. I'm a nobody myself but I know people in the business that are somebodies, so people sometimes will try to get access through me.

It makes me very uncomfortable and I always refuse, unless the person trying to meet my friends has something that might actually interest them (which has happened a couple times).

[PDH]

I taught freshmen history off and on for 20 years.  Yeah, I have all sorts of things offered to me if I were to see fit to re-evaluate a grade.

I am too boring to ever take one.

[Tonitrus]

I taught freshmen history off and on for 20 years.  Yeah, I have all sorts of things offered to me if I were to see fit to re-evaluate a grade.

I am too boring to ever take one.

When entering the field of academia(albeit a slightly abnormal sphere of it), I was worried this might happen to me.  Glad to find it hasn't so far.

[crazy canuck]

MY LSE prof tried to bribe me (money, not grades) to buy him a couple of bottles of The Famous Grouse at the Navy Exchange in London.  I turned him down, but bought a bottle and gave it to him when the course was over.

That's a great story

[Gups]

MY LSE prof tried to bribe me (money, not grades) to buy him a couple of bottles of The Famous Grouse at the Navy Exchange in London.  I turned him down, but bought a bottle and gave it to him when the course was over.

Don't understand. Why couldn't he pop down to his local corner shop to buy it?