Thursday, October 05, 2017

Fishy Situation

This is your second year as a journalist at The Wall Street Journal and you are assigned to get the story behind a new brokerage firm that’s doing exceptionally well.  Your boss tells you she thinks there may be some fishy business going on at the firm and to investigate it.  

So you investigate it. You make calls for three days straight and talk to many people in person including the CEO but you can’t find anything.  You tell your boss that you cant find anything illegal or even remotely suspicious about the new brokerage firm.

Your boss says, “That’s fine, that’s fine, just write the story on the types of stocks they’re trading and their new found success."

You write the story and it’s published.  One week later you are leaving the office going home when you overhear your boss talking on the phone.  You can clearly hear your boss and the other person on the line and soon realize that the other person on the line is the CEO from the brokerage firm.  

You hear them calling each other “honey” and “sweetie”, and then finally you hear the CEO say, “thank you for getting that story published, we really needed some positive PR.”

The next morning, you walk into your boss’ office and tell her what you heard last night and then she shuts the door and looks at you and says, “If you tell anyone about this, your career is ruined too.”

What do you do?

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