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An ethical question that looms just as large is why are you wasting company
time tracking somebody else's time? Unless you are her supervisor, or are
affected by an additional workload that her sick time creates, this is none
of your business. Any number of factors could be in play that you know
nothing about, management competence notwithstanding.
Stay out of it.
Connie Giordano
-----Original Message-----
From: Annette [mailto:annetteg4 -at- mac -dot- com]
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 10:00 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Ethical dilemma
Hello all.
I have a ethical dilemma.
I work for an IT department and am one of two technical writers. I have
worked with the other TW for over a year now, and considered her a friend
(as opposed to just a coworker) since we had many things in common. I
have been with the company for six years, she has been there nine years.
Both of us get 160 hours of sick time and 120 hours (three weeks) of
vacation for the year.
In the middle of June 2003 (when the other TW was out sick for almost an
entire week), I happened to find out that she charged her time as if she
were in the office (i.e., she didn't use the sick time charge number but our
regular work time charge number). Since then, I have been paying attention
to when she is out and how she is charging her time. Since June 12, 2003,
she has been out 112 hours and charged that time to our regular charge
number (and that number doesn't count the times she was out and charged the
time correctly).
So, the question is do I tell management what's going on?
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