My deputy director and I have been covering for our commissioner's increasingly erratic decisions for eight months now and we've become really good at translating his contradictory directives to staff without admitting what we're doing. We're protecting the agency but I think we're also enabling something that's getting worse and I don't know how much longer we can keep this up without compromising our own integrity.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are caught between institutional loyalty and personal ethics, using their partnership to manage dysfunction rather than address it.
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