COE won't lead to inevitable LE, it only means your manager wants you to be the scapegoat or you are indeed responsible for it. Resolving COE can be a positive

COE won't lead to inevitable LE, it only means your manager wants you to be the scapegoat or you are indeed responsible for it. Resolving COE can be a positive even if you know how to spin it, at least that was the case when I was there. But not sure whether things had changed