I'm torn between burying my head in the sand or taking the moral high ground.

[SadieSunshine]

What would you do?

A few of my colleagues went to a high class restaurant as reward for being top sellers.

My friend told me that she took a tea towel and some of the others took something too.

One of the people who took something was an area manager who is responsible for disciplinaries and I am sure he has sacked others for petty theft. There have been a huge increase in dismissals for silly things in the last year.

I am thinking of sending him an e-mail explaining that he has stolen an item in company hours. I am not going to report him to HR as I think it's minor but I also think it's hypocritical for him to dismiss someone for £1.50 when he's guilty of the same thing. Although I just wonder whether I'm just creating a fuss over nothing.

I am actually leaving in a few weeks time, so I've a little more courage than someone who's there for the long haul.

I'd want to take the moral high-ground, but the tricky thing is that you only have your friend's comments to go on, so I'm not sure you can really accuse him of anything.

Better would be if your friend was to confess to HR, and dump him in it at the same time, but that could seriously backfire on her if people are being sacked for small offences. And, though hypocrisy is wrong, potentially getting someone sacked is wrong too....

So, all in all, I'd probably end up doing nothing on the basis that I wasn't there and didn't truly know what happened.