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2. Believing that your grandparents will not be easily dissuaded from taking punitive action, you explain to them that if they do that, you will have to leave your sales position.

You are not fully explaining the need for a strategic intervention to your grandparents. They may believe that your position in sales is no longer viable, anyway, and employ a dysfunctional punishment strategy that will hurt the firm. It must also be considered that your unannounced connection with the firm's owners represented a form of hidden supervision of sales personnel, and this may also be considered mildly unethical on your part.

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