It made sense how you thought of what she said. If she doesn't like computer science, maybe you passing her for a promotion would help motivate her career chang

It made sense how you thought of what she said. If she doesn't like computer science, maybe you passing her for a promotion would help motivate her career change. So doing what you are saying may actually be helping her dreams come true in a roundabout way. Edit: Why should she put on an act for the sake of money/career/boss if she doesn't want to? Maybe the argument is she didn't know better (which may be true).