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Written by The Voice of Reason

Dear Reason,

I work at an agency, and while on a smoke break, one of the other assistants was bragging about the (married) actor she was having an affair with. One of her boss's clients. Should I tell someone?

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Dear TMI,

I have a four word answer for this one, darling. Keep your mouth shut.

Don’t get caught up in these games of indiscretion. Really, this is none of your business. Unless you’re fooling around with him too, you have no reason to get involved. Someone who’s running her mouth off like that is going to get her self caught with or with out your help. You’d be foolish to become a tattletale - for several reasons.

First of all, you don’t know if what she’s saying is true. If it is true, you don’t know if he drunkenly kissed her at some bar and she’s turned it into a full fledged affair, or if he just flirted with her and she’s delusional, or if they actually are sleeping together. The point is you don’t know what’s really going on.

But more importantly, what do you think you’ll get out of being the informant in this situation? There’s no way to break this news to an employer with out looking like a brownnoser. People will stop trusting you if you go running to the boss with personal info on both the employee and the client. This business requires A LOT of discretion. This girl has none, but you don’t need to prove it to anyone. This one’s cut and dry honey. This assistant’s made her own bed – don’t lie in it with her.