I need some thoughts on this what would you do?

The Environmental Protection Agency requires your company to self-report pollution discharges daily. It is your job to make those reports. The reports could be easily fudged if the company exceeded its designated limits. Excessive discharges would cost the company $25,000 for each day its limit is exceeded. One morning, your superior forgot to start the pollution control device, and the designated amount of pollution was exceeded. Your superior strongly implies that you should fudge the figures. You are worried that if you don鈥檛, you might be fired. Should you report the correct figures to the EPA? Would your answer be different if you knew whether or not the excessive pollution caused any damage?

It is a tough call. At minimum, you tell the supervisor to change the numbers and have them sign the report. If they order you to do it, then calling EPA is your only choice. Remember, changing numbers is a FELONY and in many cases it is the lowly worker, not the supervisor that goes to jail. And like a blackmailer, if you do it once for them, do you think they would hesitate to ask again. You can leave a secret report on the EPA website. I would do it from a public library computer so the IP can not be traced. If EPA investigates, ALWAYS tell the truth. They get many people for not telling the whole truth.

You live during the crooked presidency of Li'l Georgie. Your job is to survive and work and not get fired. You'll get nothing from doing the right thing exept shafted.

the person should do what he/she feels right. If the superior is forcing the person to fudge the figures, he's not doing his job and if it's his fault, the person should not feel guilty to do the right thing.

You report it. If you are fired, you file a discrimination claim under the federal whistleblower statutes. Whether the excessive pollution caused any damage or not is not your call. It is the EPA's. That's why they need the report.