Pedro noticed that his colleague, Antoine, was using clients’ spending money to make small purchases for himself. Each resident in the group home was given a specific amount of spending money every month, and it was kept in the resident’s envelope. When money was spent from the envelope, a receipt was to be left in the envelope showing where the money went. Antoine was taking money for small purchases for himself—lunch, movie tickets, a gold chain. He was placing the receipts for these purchases in the residents’ envelopes. It was not possible for administration, when doing an audit of all the residents’ accounts at the end of the month, to determine from the receipt who actually benefited from the expenditure. Pedro thought about telling the administration but felt it was likely that Antoine would deny the allegations, and this would ruin their working relationship. Therefore, Pedro did nothing. 

The above hypothetical practice situations are designed to help you apply what you have learned in this chapter. For each situation, decide what was done in the situation that was unethical.