QUID PRO QUO - 2004

Logline: A young woman takes a job with the express intention of getting terminated and then suing for sexual harassment.

  

Synopsis:   

Rhonda Medford, an attractive 30 year-old woman, is the daughter of Irish Travelers, who have trained her from childhood as a con artist.

Rhonda searches for a job and is hired as a secretary by Computek, a high tech company.  She quickly navigates herself into a personal relationship with Robert Burns, the attractive, affluent CEO of the company.  They are soon involved in a passionate love affair.

Rhonda makes sure that her closeness to Robert doesn’t distract her from the original plan and she is soon spending most of her work time surfing the web in  her office instead of doing her job.

Rhonda’s behavior is noticed by Brandon, her direct supervisor, who begins to spy on her and report her activities to Robert.

After a while, Rhonda is fired, as she planned.  She quickly hires an

Attorney and files a lawsuit for sexual harassment.  The case goes to trial

And the jury finds in favor of Rhonda.  However, her plan doesn’t work

completely.  The judge, after hearing a quantity of negative information

about Rhonda, ends up by awarding her the sum of two dollars..