Sue Stevens and Jill Reed are good friends. Both are employed by HGH Electronics

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Sue Stevens and Jill Reed are good friends. Both are employed by HGH Electronics. Sue works in the payroll section of the accounting department, and Jill is a programmer trainee in the systems software department. One Monday morning, Jill was 30 minutes late for work. At lunch, she told Sue that her car was at the garage for major repairs and that she would be late every morning during the week. She explained that she was getting a ride from her father. Unfortunately, her father was not able to drop her off until 9:30. Jill was upset about having some of her pay deducted for lateness, especially since she would need the money for the repairs. She then asked Sue to sign in for her on the office time sheet during the rest of the week. In that way, her manager would think that she was arriving at 9:00 and she would receive her full pay for the rest of the week.

Put yourself in the position of the people involved above and describe how you would handle this situation.

Explanation / Answer

Sue Stevens as a payroll officer have a fiduciary duty towards the company to be honest and ethical in her work. So when Jill asked her to do his signature on the attendance sheet that was unethical and a breach of company decorum. If Jill had problem with her conveyance or other thing he would have have asked his manager about it might be he could have helped him. But doing an unethical thing will put both of them in trouble, they can even face firing.

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