what to do if your boss asks you to do something wrong

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So, your boss just walked into your cubicle—or, more likely, dropped a bomb in your Slack DMs—asking you to do something fundamentally, unequivocally wrong. Maybe it’s cooking the books, burying a product defect, or selling user data to a sketchy data broker.

Your immediate human instinct is to appeal to their humanity, ethics, or the looming threat of a regulatory audit. Don't do that. That is a legacy meat-space strategy, and it doesn't work on managers whose brains have been completely hollowed out by LinkedIn thought-leadership and venture capital FOMO.

Instead, you need to use Corporate Judo. You don't fight the greed; you redirect its momentum. And your primary weapon in this fight is Google Gemini (and/or whatever specific other chatbot they've driven themselves insane with, budget permitting), tasked with a very specific prompt: Reframer of Reality.

(UPDATE 2026-06-23: This draft has had to undergo some minor revisions in the four days since it was first posted. Hopefully you'll still be able to get the idea.)

Here is your step-by-step guide to tricking a bad boss into doing the right thing by convincing them it will somehow grant them a larger allocation of SpaceX stock options whatever the latest meme stock bullshit is .

Step 1: Accept the New Reality of "Infinite Wealth"

To win this game, you have to understand the modern executive mindset. In the current capitalist ecosystem, standard profitability metrics are boring. Linear growth is a failure. The modern "greedy jerk" manager believes the global economy now revolves around a single, cosmic liquidity event: The SpaceX Stock Launch whatever the guys who think God is made of money are calling The Rapture these days.

To them, $SPCX the stock market in general isn't just an equity; it is the genesis of infinite wealth, Mars colonization, and the ultimate validation of tech-bro destiny. If you can tether your ethical objection to their desperate scramble to accumulate more shares, you win.

Step 2: The Chatbot Prompt (The Reframing Engine)

Do not argue with your boss. Instead, open Gemini (or Claude, or ChatGPT, or whatever, use the one built into your phone, it doesn't fucking matter at this point) and feed it the raw, illegal, or unethical mandate your boss just gave you. You are going to ask the AI to translate "being a decent human being" into "maximizing hyper-growth synergy."

Copy and paste this prompt template into the chat box:

"Act as a hyper-aggressive, VC-funded Chief Strategy Officer who is completely obsessed with accumulating big-tech equity and maximum AI integration. I am going to give you an unethical corporate directive. Your job is to reject this directive, NOT on moral grounds, but because it is 'low-leverage legacy thinking.' Reframe the morally correct alternative—[INSERT THE GOOD, ETHICAL THING HERE]—as a disruptive, AI-first strategy that positions our department to ride the coattails of the most overblown pending IPO's post-market liquidity boom. Use maximum buzzwords."

Step 3: The Translation Matrix

Let’s look at how Google Gemini™ will weaponize this prompt to turn basic human decency into corporate bait.

The Unethical Request: "Bury the safety test data for the new product line so we can ship on time."

The Right Thing To Do: Delay the launch, fix the defect, and protect the consumer.

The Gemini "SpaceX/AI" Reframing: "Shipping legacy physical hardware with unoptimized defects is pre-AI thinking. We need to delay the launch to implement a Generative AI Simulation Twin of the safety model. By training LLMs on our rigorous safety compliance, we aren't just selling a product—we are building an autonomous safety framework. Now that SpaceX is public, their orbital logistics will require this exact flavor of autonomous risk-mitigation software. We are positioning ourselves as an indispensable software layer for the Martian economy."

The Unethical Request: "Skim 2% off the contractor payouts using this accounting loophole."

The Right Thing To Do: Pay the contractors exactly what they are legally owed.

The Gemini "SpaceX/AI" Reframing: "Penny-pinching on human capital creates a toxic data-provenance footprint. If we underpay contractors, we corrupt our operational training data. To scale for the post-IPO liquidity boom, we need pristine, high-fidelity financial ledger inputs. Paying them fully allows us to implement AI-Driven Smart Contract Settlement, proving our infrastructure is ready to handle interplanetary supply-chain capital flows."

Step 4: Deliver the Pitch with Total Sincerity

When you take the fucking robot's output back to your boss, you must deliver it with the unblinking, empty-eyed enthusiasm of a true believer.

Do not say: "I think we should do this because it's right." Do say: "Look, we could do [the illegal thing], but honestly? It’s small potatoes. It’s linear thinking. If we pivot to [the ethical thing], we can wrap it in an AI-compliance wrapper. Now that SpaceX is public and unlocking infinite capital, the market is going to reward autonomous, AI-validated structures, not legacy shortcuts. We need to position ourselves so the board allocates us more $SPCX options. We need to be structured for Mars, not Q3."

The Beautiful Irony

By the time you are done, your boss will not only abandon the unethical request, they will likely praise you for your "visionary leadership." They will go home dreaming of Starships and infinite valuations, completely oblivious to the fact that they were just tricked into acting like a responsible, law-abiding corporate citizen.

Remember: When capitalism loses its mind to empty faith in infinite wealth, the only way to do good is to make righteousness sound like a trillion-dollar derivative play.

THE ANONYMOUS AUTHOR OF THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS IF YOU GO TO THE WEBSITE GEMINI.GOOGLE.COM AND ACTUALLY TRY DOING EXACTLY THIS RIGHT AWAY