When you're little, the difference between 'right' and 'wrong' is usually pretty clear. Stealing your friend's toy is wrong, but returning it to them is the right thing to do. Helping your little sister with her math homework is good, but pulling her hair when she gets the incorrect answer is bad. However, playground rules don't apply when you're an adult and every black-and-white decision becomes muddled in a sea of grey. Even more-so in the workplace, there's a fine line between doing the right thing for your company and doing the right thing for yourself.
Because when it comes to money matters, there's no right or wrong, only cold, hard cash.
In our next story, one employee causes a big stink at the Thanksgiving dinner table over a workplace decision. With choices that are never clearly right or wrong, it leaves us all wondering what we would do in the same situation. After getting a swanky new job, OP was given two weeks to notify his old employer, but decided against it so that he can cash out the $1,200 in PTO left over in his account.
Would you do the ‘honorable’ thing and tell your workplace you're leaving? Or would you take the money and run? Scroll onward to read more details of this gregarious decision and the family turmoil it caused over the Thanksgiving turkey and you can decide who's in the wrong here…
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