If you knew a co-worker was lying, would you tell your boss?

It is really hard to be involved coz even if you mean well, others might think you are just trying to impress your boss. But then again, maybe if you know someone who does this, you might tell him.her that it should be stopped or else something really bad might happened. As with firing those people who was cheating with their time, I think they deserved it. Why would a company trust a person who doesn't know how to abide by simple rules imposed by the company.

Maybe I will choose to only tell my boss the system has this bug secrectly, not to report to him that who are cheating. Because whistle-blower is not easy to get along with the other colleagues.

i think if this was the case, i would surely let our boss know that the set up of the system or policies about logging in on the system is exposed to a lot of issues especially for those who may intend to cheat the company's time. I would not directly pin point someone but if i was an assistant to the boss, it is surely my task to inform the boss of what's happening, but if we are both on the same level in the organization, perhaps what i can do is to warn this officemate of mine the danger of what she was doing if in case she gets caught, or if the boss sees in the system that he is logged in already and that he/she is not around then that's a problem.

I would probably just bide my time. sooner or later the lie would catch up with the coworker and they would be caught in their own deceit. they would end up telling the boss themselves without even knowing it.

Yes your daughter should report them to your boss ASAP.They are essentially stealing money from the company she works for.

I will definitely inform the boss. I don't want to be involved for such actuation. We need to be responsible to have our own dignity.

I think the mature and responsible thing to do was tell the boss if they knew the person was cheating the system. Basically the person was cheating everyone else too. How is it fair that others had to be at work and did the right thing and this person was cheating the system and getting paid for it, you know? I am not sure if firing the person that knew was completely fair, maybe putting them on suspension for a little bit or something like that would have been sufficent but then again I am too nice which is why I would NEVER be a boss! Lol, so maybe it is just my niceness talking here...

I think firing is just too much. It is not the right thing to cheat, but of course the system has a flaw. Everybody makes mistakes either intensionally or not. In the work environment, it is part of the HR function to deal with this. It is not right to fire the person right away. There should be a notice first, then see if the employee improve or not. If not, then there should be a second notice. If it is violated then fired is the last option. The same thing should happen to the person who knew but hide it. And of course, it is part of the company to fix the problem and to prevent this type of cheating.

A lot of my colleagues cheat on the system like this. A lot of us in the organization know that but we have not told our bosses. And I would not like being fired if someone else was cheating.