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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have used the "document and do it" approach in situations where I disagreed with how something was being done, but if it is something unethical, I would refuse to do it.[/quote]

this is an important distinction. if you just disagree with a decision, document and do it. if you think it’s waste, fraud or abuse, or otherwise unethical, do not do it and report to OIG. sometimes especially if you are an attorney those lines are not always clear. I think there has been only one time in my career where I disagreed with a policy decision so strongly that I refused to do it. My boss just took the file from me and took me off the matter. Basically I was being asked to rubber stamp something that looked totally off to me.

Complicated story, but it turned out that based on the information I had, I was totally correct. But I did not have all the information because something sensitive/confidential that was related was going on. When I later found out about it, the whole thing made sense. But I felt good about my refusal to rubber stamp since I didn’t have access to the right information.

I also strongly dislike being kept in the dark about projects I’m on, so I felt like it was a good message to my supervisory chain about how they needed to treat me. Fortunately at that time they were trustworthy people. [/quote]

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