Workplace

Your factory is the only employer in town. An environmental audit will shutter it for a year. Do you publish the audit and devastate the town, or bury it and keep people working while pollution continues?

You start a meeting with a ‘funny’ icebreaker, but no one laughs. Do you carry on or just go straight to the agenda?

You join a client call with your video background still set to a tropical beach from last weekend. Do you change it or lean into it?

You join a work video call forgetting your display name is still ‘Sexy Pancake’ from a pub quiz night. Do you change it immediately or hope no one notices?

Your boss tells a joke that isn’t funny. Do you fake a laugh or risk your promotion with silence?

During a serious Zoom meeting, you forget your microphone is on and let out an impressively loud fart. Do you pretend it was your chair or own the moment?

You discover your company is collapsing financially. Warning colleagues will cause chaos, but staying silent means they lose everything. Do you tell them?

You know your business partner is embezzling money, but exposing them will also destroy your own livelihood. Do you speak up?

Your colleague falsified their qualifications but is now a brilliant and respected employee. Do you reveal the lie?

You’ve been mispronouncing a colleague’s name for months. They finally correct you. Do you apologise or joke about it?

You vent about your boss to a friend in a café — only to realise your boss is at the next table. Do you acknowledge them?

You’re halfway through a job interview when you realise the interviewer has spinach stuck in their teeth. Do you tell them or ignore it?

You think your mic is muted during a video meeting and mutter something sarcastic about a colleague. Everyone hears. Do you apologise instantly or pretend you didn’t say it?

In the office Secret Santa, you accidentally buy a gift meant for someone else — a racy joke mug — but it ends up being opened by your extremely conservative boss. Do you admit it was yours?

You walk into a meeting room and realise a colleague is on a video call about firing someone — and they haven’t noticed you. Do you leave quietly or interrupt?

You have proof your company endangers the public. Leaking it could shut the company down and cost jobs.

You’re ordered to create a fake invoice to help the company dodge taxes. Do you do it?

Your boss asks you to choose which colleagues will be laid off. Do you comply?

You know two married senior managers are having an affair. HR asks for your statement. Do you tell them?

You find confidential payroll data showing you’re underpaid compared to a less experienced colleague. Do you confront management?

Your manager orders you to ignore safety rules to meet a deadline. Refusal could cost you your job.

A colleague who was fired for incompetence asks you to be a glowing reference. Do you lie?

You discover your boss has been harassing staff. Reporting it anonymously will reveal your identity anyway. Do you risk it?

You know two married senior managers are having an affair. HR asks for your statement. Do you tell them?

You find confidential payroll data showing you’re underpaid compared to a less experienced colleague. Do you confront management?

You discover your boss has been harassing staff. Reporting it anonymously will reveal your identity anyway. Do you risk it?

Your manager orders you to ignore safety rules to meet a deadline. Refusal could cost you your job.

A colleague who was fired for incompetence asks you to be a glowing reference. Do you lie?