You are a supervisor in the Health Information Services Department of a facility with a policy prohibiting secondary employment with a competitor. One of the employees you supervise is a coder who has just begun the process of repaying student loan debt. The coder has decided that she needs a second job to help defray expenses. She has been offered a position as a code for one eight-hours shift per weekend at a doctor's office. This doctor is a member of your facility's medical staff. Because you addressed the issue of secondary employment in the coder's entrance interview, she comes to you now seeking advice, How do you respond?

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Although you might be sympathetic to the problem that this employee has encountered, this does not mean that either one of you should ignore the rules that are in place at the workplace. The fact remains that, according to the rules of the department, the employee cannot have a secondary employment with a competitor. The doctor would be considered a competitor. Therefore, the best thing to do would be to show understanding towards the employee, but to remind her of the policy and of the fact that this was mentioned during the interview.