Lying at your Job?

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If your boss or bosses force you to lie at your job, are you sinning? I assume it is but I didn’t know. Here’s the specific situation…I work in a real estate law firm and if something happens where a closing doesn’t happen on time or the attorney doesn’t want to look bad, I and the other ladies I work with are told by the attorney to lie and tell them anything other than the truth. Sometimes the attorney even stands over us when we are lying about situations. I am trying to get another job because I don’t feel comfortable being put in those situations but until then I don’t know what to do. Should I refuse to lie or should I lie and would it be sinning? I’m really distraught over this. Help!!
 
I would tell him that I will not lie for him as it violates the tenets of my religion and it’s unethical. And tell him if he retaliates, you know of some good first ammendment lawyers (such as the ACLJ and others who defend Christians).

If he wants to lie, he can do it personally.

Keep looking for another job, a liar in small things is probably a liar in big things too and I wouldn’t want to work for him.
 
Thanks for the advice. I hate to sound judgemental of anyone but I had experience and heard other people’s experience with my employers and they don’t do things of the most truthful nature if you know what I mean. I just hope maybe I don’t have to work for them much longer.
 
While it is wrong to lie, your responsibility for the lies may be mitigated because you are being forced to do so by those who have control over your livelihood. Keep your resume out there!

Betsy
 
def look for a new job-if the lawyer lies about small things, I am sure he may also tell bigger lies. For the time being, I would not lie also as per the other response.
 
Simply ask what the solicitor wants you to tell the client. Then you preface your communication with the words “I have been told that …” You are off the hook because you have said only what you were instructed to say and you made no representation of its accuracy or truthfulness.

Matthew
 
drafdog said:
Simply ask what the solicitor wants you to tell the client. Then you preface your communication with the words “I have been told that …” You are off the hook because you have said only what you were instructed to say and you made no representation of its accuracy or truthfulness.

Matthew
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Oooh! Good idea! I would have never thought of that. Thanks!
 
drafdog said:
Simply ask what the solicitor wants you to tell the client. Then you preface your communication with the words “I have been told that …” You are off the hook because you have said only what you were instructed to say and you made no representation of its accuracy or truthfulness.
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Be careful! The Catechism says that lying is misrepresenting the truth!

From the CCC:
2464 The eighth commandment forbids misrepresenting the truth in our relations with others. This moral prescription flows from the vocation of the holy people to bear witness to their God who is the truth and wills the truth. Offenses against the truth express by word or deed a refusal to commit oneself to moral uprightness: they are fundamental infidelities to God and, in this sense, they undermine the foundations of the covenant.
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Having knowledge of the truth and misleading someone is still considered a lie.
 
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