If the IM conversations looked like he was joking, would they fire him and also go public with it? I'm not sure. I've learned from painful experience that my d

If the IM conversations looked like he was joking, would they fire him and also go public with it? I'm not sure. I've learned from painful experience that my discomfort with lying is not necessarily a good mental model for how other people feel about lying--some have no compunction at all, especially when self-interest is involved, so I'm slow to give the benefit of the doubt.