Ethical dilemma #027
You are offered a promotion in another city, but your partner cannot move. Would you accept?
You are offered higher pay and an important role in another city. The job requires working late and traveling on many weekends.
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Choose an answer before continuing.
The context
You have a stable job, a salary that covers your expenses, and time to spend with your partner and daughter. You like that life, although you sometimes think you should go further in your career.
Today you are offered the chance to lead an office in another city. You would earn more, but would have to move, work late, and travel two weekends a month. Your partner cannot relocate their job for now. You can accept, decline the promotion, or ask whether some conditions can change. The offer excites you and could improve your family finances. It would also change the time you spend together and leave your partner handling many tasks you currently share.
A perspective to continue
A good life can include ambition as well as limits. What would you gain from the offer, what would you lose, and who would take on each part of that change?
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What your decision prioritizes
You take an important career opportunity. Organization does not remove every absence or the extra burden at home.
You protect something you already value. Later, you might wonder what taking the offer would have been like.
You seek an opportunity you can sustain together. The company might not accept the changes you need.
How other people responded
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The company refuses to change the schedule but offers to pay for an expensive medical treatment your daughter needs. That expense is difficult to cover on your current salary.
Now that you know this, would you stand by your decision?
Stand by it
The new information does not change your decision. Consider whether your original reasons still hold in light of what you have just learned.
Change it
What you have just learned leads you to choose a different response. Which detail changed how you see the situation?
I need to know more
The new information leaves you with an important question. What would you need to ask before acting?
0% changed their mind after learning the new context
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