Name the Other One
Do you say the name?
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Name the Other One
Something went wrong at work and it's traced to you. It wasn't only you; a colleague did the same thing, earlier, and nobody's noticed. Your manager offers a deal in a quiet room: give them the other name and you keep your job with a warning. Stay silent and you're out at the end of the month. Your colleague has a mortgage. So do you.
Do you say the name?
Then ask
- Would you tell your partner exactly how you kept the job?
- What if the colleague had already named you, and you found out afterwards?
- Have you ever let someone take slightly more of the blame than they earned?
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