I doctored an email, blamed it on technology
Our company was getting raked over the coals for far too long and I was tired of being the punching bag for the client as the account lead. We screwed something up (minor, overpaid for a budget line item that was outside of their internal policy).
I took an existing email from the sourcing department and changed the wording of the email to suggest we had been given authorization...and sent it back to the client, under the guise of an acceptable email. ..the discrepancy was noticed and I lied, blaming it on a glitch in technology that sent 2 different versions of a similar reply.
Continued to lie when the Director of Marketing called me on the discrepancy and only came clean to my boss (2 months later) when our agency was about to get fired.
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