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When you and your manager disagree about ethical boundaries at work

My manager and I both know our department is implementing a policy that will hurt the people we're supposed to serve but she says we need to 'work within the system' and I think that's just a way to avoid taking a stand. We respect each other but this feels like a fundamental disagreement about what our jobs actually require of us.

Juana
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Two people with genuine mutual respect are finding that their different theories about institutional change create an impasse around shared responsibility.

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