Real-Life Decision Making -- Solution
You agree to take him down the advanced run.
You grudgingly agree to take this bossy young student down the advanced run. When you get off the chair lift at the crest of the advanced run, you plead with your student not to do this, but he still insists on trying this run.
You do your best to guide him down the less difficult areas of the run, but within a few minutes the boy takes a bad tumble. He seems to have broken a leg, so you call the medics.
You are angry with yourself for giving in to the boy's threats and wonder if you will still have a job when your boss hears about this.
This is not what ski instructor Deborah Ehrenreich would do. She says allowing a young boy, a novice skier, to take the advanced run would have been totally irresponsible on her part.
"The boy could have been badly hurt, or worse. It was something I could have lost my job over, in spite of the fact that the little brat was basically blackmailing me.
"You have to be really swift dealing with people in this job," says Ehrenreich.