Hi all. I’m a junior in high school who is focused on business. As part of this focus, I founded my team’s Future Business Leaders of America Club. The club has a respectable amount of members, has been active since last August, and we are working on joining our local Chamber of Commer. Overall I think the club has been good and it will be great if we earn money from sponsors once we are a part of the Chamber of Commerce. However, we are missing awards. We missed the regional competition cut off date, and the cost of competition for states along with the travel costs was too expensive. However, there are Business Achievement Awards that we have been working towards. The problem is we may not get our work submitted before the due date. If we finish our work and do not get it submitted before the due date, should we still act as if we got the award? I’m sure we could at the local level since our advisor would be ok with it, but could I say I got an award at the national level since that’s what it was intended for?
Simple one word answer: No
You didn’t specify - who is it you’re intending to lie to?
Don’t lie. Period. The end.
Your advisor would be ok with you saying that you received an award that you did not receive? There is a problem with integrity on your and your advisors behalf. The fact that this is even a question speaks to the fact that you knew this was not right.
Pretty sure everyone above sums it up well. Don’t lie, ever. What were you thinking asking this on this forum? Did you expect us to say “Yeah, go ahead and lie about an award that you didn’t earn?”
Gotcha. I didn’t think of it as lying but reflecting on it, I think it’s wrong. Thanks for the advice.
I assume you are not meeting dates because you are a new club and are ramping up…but in the future, realize that meeting dates is very important in the business world.