The Request
Recognizing the moment it starts
Your manager asks you to adjust a number in the report. Not by much. Not illegally. Just enough to make the quarter look better. The request sounds casual — the implications aren't.
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The Grey Area
→Your manager asks you to shade a number. It's not illegal. It's not quite honest. And everyone else seems fine with it. Are you?
Part of the quest
Ethics & Integrity at Work
→From shading a number for your manager to witnessing misconduct and deciding whether to report — practice the decisions that define your professional character. These are the conversations most people avoid. They are also the ones that matter most.
What you'll learn from The Request
This scenario focuses on Recognizing the moment it starts — a critical skill inside the broader leadership domain. You'll face a decision where the instinctive response is often the wrong one. After you make your choice, you'll see exactly what happened in the other person's head and why it mattered. The scenario is part of The Grey Area, a full interactive story inside the Ethics & Integrity at Work quest.
Skills you'll build in Ethics & Integrity at Work
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Everyone in the room signed off on it. The client won't notice. Your manager's manager approved it. You're the only person who feels wrong about this — and that loneliness is the point.
It's not a crime. It's not even clearly unethical. But somewhere between 'technically fine' and 'clearly wrong' is a line — and you're standing on it right now, trying to see which side you're on.
You've decided this isn't something you can do. Now you have to say no to people who have the power to make your life very difficult — without burning the relationships you still need.
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