Ethical dilemna

According to the Oxford dictionary, a dilemma states to be a situation in which an individual must choose between two alternative, particularly when either choice may result in undesirable consequences.

As I have done a number of jobs while in India, I have faced an ethical dilemma more than once. But the one which was most typical, involved a case of theft. I was working in a very large book store in South Delhi as a cashier. I was very grateful to the manager as not only was he a nice person to work under, but he had selected me for the job without me having any cash experience, Along with the job at the till, I also had to update inventory logs. During the course of the job, some of my office colleagues turned into general friends and we all started spending a lot of time

After weighing all my options carefully, I decided that though the act was contemptuous of my values, I could not report it to higher authorities because I would most certainly lose a friend and social contacts did matter a lot to me. On the other hand, I could also not be completely lax about the matter as it was my moral duty to ensure that the organization did not undergo any type of loss. In the end, I did not report the matter, but I did put the message across to my friend that I would in no manner involve myself in such an act and would not be pleased at all if he did too. Though it created a sort of a misunderstanding between the both of us, in the end all was sorted out and we still remain in touch.

Two weeks into the job, this office colleague who was also a pretty close friend of mine by then, approached me with a proposition. He said that he would smuggle out stationary like pens,

Some topics in this essay:
South Delhi, According Oxford, job office, missing items, inventory logs, office colleagues,