Question...Did I lie?
by Okay, one of the supervisors for my company (not my office...the entire company) wrote me an e-mail asking me the purpose of my running a particular report for one of our sales people and asked if I gave it to him already. I answered her first question about the reason, but didn't answer whether or not I had given it to him already. She then wrote me back saying that she didn't think it was the real reason he wanted it, and not to give him the report. What I didn't tell her was that I already gave it to him. I just said "okay". Did I lie?
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Huh. You were less than forthright. Maybe a little deceptive. Is the e-mail about a very serious thing? I think if you even start to question yourself, you've done something against your conscience. Sometimes that's worse than doing something glaringly wrong because your heart condition is involved. You don't want your conscience to be deadened. Difficult situation. I'd tell your supervisor and ask his/her advice.
I, personally, don't feel that its serious. I ran the sales persons book of business (which you would think he's entitled to see anyway)...They're his accounts, he started them and he manages them. I think they feel that he might pull all his business from this company and go elsewhere with it. But how would I have known that they didn't want it run? I never needed approval to get them done before.
I wouldn't worry about it that much, then. Unless you think it might come back to you that you sent the report and shouldn't have. That's a point of contention.
they are all shady. punch maryanne in the face for one final hoorah and RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN
If you didn't tell an untruth then you didn't lie. However, as web-toed chloe said, if what you said bothers your conscience you should do something about it.
whats wrong with lying ?... i'm a jew
Only thing I'd be worried about is the supervisor finding out the salesperson got the report from you, and then thinking you directly disobeyed his/her request to not send it.
That's not really what I'm worried about at all. She wouldn't find out unless he said something, because there's no way to show that IIIIIII gave it to him. I didn't e-mail it. It was actually taken off the printer by someone else and I just took it and put it on his desk. Eh, I guess what's done is done...Doesn't even matter now. It just gives me more incentive to leave this crap hole anyway.
maybe if you leave it'd just be a -hole-.... hahah oh snap meep
he was mislead by something that you said. pray for forgiveness.
SHE was not mislead. I answered her question...If she had asked the same one again, I would have told her that I gave it to him already, but she didn't.
yes jen.. u did lie.. u are a horrible person... i don't love you any more (i kid i kid! i heart you bunches!)
I think you should just send each of them a letter bomb to end it. that way even if you did lie, jehovah will for give you b/c they never found out about your deception.
dude, you're right. i work for UPS and i happen to know that i don't check packages for ticking, vibrations or bomb-like smells [whatever those may be]. people on the recieving end of one those bad-boys never thinks it's them whose next. myself, i just throw them from one side of the truck to the other and then toss them onto door steps, no other thought involved. this is morbid thinking, but if the mafia did UPS style hits--that mafia family would be efficient and unstoppable. just gotta pull the truck into the driveway backwards, poof poof poof, and you're back on the road in less than forty seconds. perfect. i wonder how many you could do before the cops caught on? i guess it depends on how well the driver knows his route and how many people are around. the average, for me, is 40 stops an hour. hmmm. theres terrible math to be done.
you know what i think? it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
This is the kind of question that you never ask my Dad. He would have been like, "Gabriella, the fact that you doubt your decision enough to ask means you didn't do the wrong thing..." and so on. I always hated when he did that.