What’s the best way to approach a conversation with a creative who lied? Long story short, this person made up an emergency to take time off they’d been denied. I pieced this together a few months later with a superior. It’s not a big deal but I do want to talk to this person about why honesty would’ve been a better solution and stress why lying is not a good look. I’m more upset that it communicates something negative about this person’s character than the lie itself. Tips?

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Honesty didn’t get them the time off approved.

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Jesus, this industry died when we started letting hall monitors become CDs.

You are a creative. You know how above-and-beyond we’re asked to go and you understand the stigma attached to taking even a normal amount of time off. If you want to concern troll about their character, be my guest. But I’d choose empathy, introspection and silence. You are not the vacation police.

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I’m not sure this is worthy of confrontation. It’s not your responsibility as a CD to teach them the importance of honesty (that was their parents’ job).

Take note of it, and use that knowledge to inform your relationship with them moving forward.

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For sure. I’d be annoyed too if I were you!

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Mind your own beeswax. So someone lied. What’s it to you?

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The best way to help them is to let them know their time off is their time off to do with as they please and they don’t owe an explanation to anybody. If somebody wants to ask why they need the time, it’s “personal.”

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Maybe approve people’s time off?

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So someone else denied the PTO?

Hmmmmm. That’s a toughie because you’d better have rock solid proof or else you could find yourself in a legal quagmire.

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You say in here that you would have approved the PTO but you were out and had no say.

So you were fine with them taking the time, they were denied by someone other than you and found a creative way to get it approved?

What’s the problem? Why exactly would honesty have been better?

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As their mentor, you really should teach them how not to get caught next time

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why are you denying pto

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