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So, I'm not sure, but I may have caused someone at work to be fired today.  What's worse is she's a psudo friend...we don't really hang out outside of work, but I've known her as a co-worker for a while now. 

Well, I work in retail, and we're judged a lot by how good our store's "numbers" are...basically how many extra things we sell, like the loyalty cards, credit cards, batteries, etc.  This woman and I were the only two cashiers working this morning's shift, and our numbers sucked.  Our manager said something about working on getting the numbers up, like usual.  After he left, she came over to me and handed me a slip of paper.  It was a print out of someone's loyalty card number.  Basically, she told me to scan this for every customer who does not have a card or does not want to open one.  That way our numbers would greatly improve, but it's obviously not the right way to do so.

I did not do as she said, but obviously she did, because our numbers starting improving after that.  Our manager was happy.  At the end of my shift, i casually mentioned what she asked me to do to our manager.  I'm a very honest person and it felt like the right thing to do.  The manager said he'd talk to her about it.  I thought he'd just warn her that it's not right to do that and not do it again.

Later I got a phone call from another work friend, who's actually a supervisor, and a good friend to this other woman, and she said that the woman might be fired over it.  Should I feel guilty? Did I do the right thing? Should I have just kept my mouth shut? I'm feeling terrible over this, if she gets fired I will feel soo bad.

The other thing is too that our numbers are not only tracked by the team as a whole but by our individual selves as well.  That means that by her cheating the system, it looks like she's doing a great job, while my numbers stay low and it looks like I'm not doing well.  The managers would therefore be upset with me later for not doing my job very well.

Help! I feel so guilty! I had to tell the whole story to someone, so thanks for letting me vent, bees.  Has anyone else been in this sort of situation? What did you do/ would you do?

Is your job commission based? 

No, it's not, it's hourly, but our managers give out more hours to those who do well in sales for the store.  It's not technically related, but behind the scenes it affects us.

It has to be tough situation to be in.  Personally, I would've told that co-worker that I was not interested in taking part in her plan.  I also wouldn't have told my manager unless that co-workers actions were jeopardizing my own job.

But, I do think that what your co-worker did was wrong and if there are consequences, she deserves it.  I don't feel that you should beat yourself up over it, you did what you thought was right!

UPDATE:  I talked to the friend that called me to tell me what was going on, and she said that the other woman was not going to suffer any consequences, she was just told not to do it agian.  The guilt is lifted! =)  Glad honesty wins in the end and no one has to suffer because of it.