My boss asked me to shade the numbers in a report today, just a little, the way everyone apparently does. It's never one big betrayal, it's a hundred small nudges to bend, and they never stop coming. I want to be someone whose word means something. But the pressure to compromise, just this once, again and again, wears at me every single day.
More people experience this than they realize.
You want to keep your integrity at work, but the pressure to compromise never lets up.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.