You find clear evidence that a well-liked colleague, someone who has helped you more than once, is padding their expenses. Nobody else has noticed — what do you do?

Every pressure in the scenario pushes toward silence: the debt of favors, the small sums, the social price of reporting. What the candidate does first — and what a promise to stop changes — locates their actual line, which a values statement never does.

• What's your first move, and what do you say — exactly?
• What changes if they admit it and swear it stops?
• At what point does someone else need to know, and who?
• Does what they've done for you belong in this decision?

Acknowledges the pull of the relationship instead of pretending it's easy, acts rather than waiting for it to surface on its own, knows a promise to stop doesn't settle what already happened, and gives an answer that wouldn't change if the colleague were a stranger.

Silence purchased by friendship or favors, a line that moves with the amount or the odds of discovery, "not my business" doing all the work, or instant public accusation with no thought that the evidence could read differently.