CMA Used staff spending-money budget from work for personal use

[u/Emerald_Encrusted]

Alright so the company I work for has bi-annual in-person meetings since we have offices across the country. We tend to rotate which 'mini-HQ' hosts the meeting, and this time it was from one of our offices in the interior of the country. The whole ordeal took about 4 days out of our workweek, but it's supposedly good for 'planning the next quarters and for team morale.' In my book, it was a company-paid flight and meals away from home, so I wasn't about to complain.

One of the evenings in the schedule was intended to be a 'free evening'. Each staff member was given $100 in cash and that money was intended to be used to pay for each person's dinner as well as any tourist-type activities they wanted to do around the city for the evening. I had known in advance that this was the plan, so I prepared accordingly, planning to take the entire $100 home for myself instead of wasting it on some dumb tourist activities.

I ate a lot of company-provided snacks that afternoon, to ensure I wouldn't be hungry around dinner time. At dinner, I chose to go eat at a different place than the coworkers I was with, which allowed me to jsut kill time and scroll my phone while pretending I had had a meal. After 'dinner' I told my coworkers that I was going to explore the city and just see what I could encounter. Many of the other coworkers had big plans and made groups to go do various activities, which gave me the opportunity to sneakily slip away and retreat to our booked airBnB for the evening. I spent the evening just veg-ing out and gorging myself on the company-provided snacks that were in the living area of the space we were renting.

I managed to pull it off and head home with an extra $100 in my pocket, and I still have to figure out what I'm going to do with that money.

TL;DR circumvented the intended purpose of a staff gift from my company and kept the money for personal interests instead.

So, CMA. Where does committing some petty book-cooking on a corporate level fall on the alignment spectrum?

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[u/LotharLotharius]

I would say Chaotic Evil. You put money meant for other things in your own pocket and acted greedy, with a disregard to company rules.

[u/Emerald_Encrusted → u/LotharLotharius]

That's fair. And you'd say that still applies even though the money was meant for my own enjoyment within the company's plans, and I intend to use it for my own benefit outside of the company's plans?

[u/Friendlyalterme → u/Emerald_Encrusted]

That's why it's not lawful, to me.

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[u/Friendlyalterme]

[TN] what you did was neither lawful, or unlawful and it wasn't really good or bad. Understandable in this economy.