Question

You have discovered that one of your closes friends at work has stolen a large sum of money from the company. Would you do nothing? Go directly to an executive to report the incident before talking about it with the offender? Confront the individual before taking an action? Make contact with the individual with the goal of persuading that person to return the money?

Answer 1

I do not want my close friend to get into trouble and at the same time, I want him to return the money and learn from his mitsake. So I will make contact with my friend with the goal of persuading him to return that money. I will definitely give him this chance to correct his mistake and also accept this mistake in front of the company executives as well. This way the punishment will also be less and the company might appreciate his honesty. If I tell the executives directly then the consequences will be very bad and the company might take legal actions as well. Confronting directly might ruin our friendship and many other people might get to know about the incident. But I will want my friend to be safe and also the company should get back its money. This will help both my friend and the company. So the main target would be to persuade him to return the money and accept his mistake.