Do You Lies?

In the former Soviet Union, people would lie to meet their quotas. When you just bring out the word lie, then suddenly the ethical hackles go up. But if you call it our best guess or what they wanted, that's more acceptable. A more common example of this whole thing is when we do officer evaluations and usually officers get raided once a year. And before the rating period starts, you're supposed to sit down with the raided person and say, Okay, let's go over your goals and what we expect of you. Well, that's really hard to do. So thousands of forms get turned in and you have to initial every time you got counseled from the beginning and