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When colleagues discover workplace corruption but fear retaliation

My coworker and I discovered our supervisor has been inflating project budgets and keeping the difference, but she's also the person who's been most supportive of our careers and we both need her recommendation for promotions we've been working toward for months. We keep going back and forth about whether to report it and neither of us wants to be the one to make the final call.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're caught between moral obligation and professional survival, needing to navigate the treacherous terrain of exposing wrongdoing when the corrupt person holds power over your future.

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“Where Are You with Corruption and how to fight it?”

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