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I got it booked. I’m so excited!
Where have you decided to go?

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Colorado, skiing, I got such a great deal.
Five days of pure heaven here I come.

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Fun! Five? I thought you were only
scheduled for Thursday and Friday off.

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Well, I am but it was such a good deal I
couldn’t pass it up. I’m leaving tomorrow morning.

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You’ll never get your PTO approved at the
last-minute at this time of the year.

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We’re already shorthanded.
I know but I’m getting a scratchy throat.

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Katie, that’s lame.

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I’ll just call in sick in the morning.
Elaine was out all week last week with the flu.

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It’s going around. Don’t give me that
kind of look! It’s my time to take!

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I can see the dilemma already. You know another
person is doing something they shouldn’t.

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Do you cover or not?

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Well, that’s one of the dilemmas here.
So let’s tackle that one first.

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What do you think she should do?

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Well, no friend, let alone coworker, should ask
another person to be a part of something that is wrong.

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So she should say something because it
could be a reflection on her if she doesn’t.

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Not much of a dilemma. Just stuff to do
sometimes with the social pressure that people face.

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Ahh, but nobody said doing the right thing was easy.

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Now the other issue here was the woman who said...

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It’s my time to take!

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That’s the kind of ‘I’m entitled to
thinking’ that leads to abusing sick time,

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justifying personal phone calls, or
using office supplies for personal use.

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I know it seems like not so serious stuff but
there are still ethical choices being made.

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And serious or not the choices that you make become
a reflection of the kind of employee that you are.

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You’re right. Abusing these simple policies
can stop a good career dead in its track.