Power.

I would guess that a good measure of how much power you have in the office is what happens if you cut one. For instance, if you're REALLY high up, everybody has to pretend they didn't notice. If you're KINDA high up you can do it, but you gotta accompany it with a funny interjection, like "hiyooooo!!" or "HOTcha-boogie!!!!!!!", followed by something like "dang, I gotta get the ol' lady to change butchers!"

Me, if I let one slip, the outrage would be such that before security could see me safely out of the building my body would've been set on fire by torches in the parking lot; people wailing "for godsake, the children!!!!!" Finally an F branded onto my forehead before being pushed into oncoming traffic. So.