During my 44-year career as a CEO there was one thing that I would not tolerate from employees and that was lying. It was literally a firing offense and was listed in our employee manual as such. My reasoning was that if someone lied to me once, then I would always question whether they were lying when subsequent conversations were conducted . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2019/02/liars-are-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/