Rachel Murphy works for a major time-share resort company. Rachel has been very successful in selling time-share properties to customers. Rachel has noticed that her fellow sales representatives have a name for the last five days of the month, "The Say-Any-Friggin'-Thing Days". Sales reps are given bonuses for the number of customers they bring in each month. At the end of the month, sales reps are promising customers that they can get out of their contract at any time (they cannot) and that the company will sell the time-share property for them (the company does not). Which of the following cases was similar to what Rachel is experiencing?
A) CVS Pharmacies and oxycodone sales
B) Peanut Corporation of America
C) Wells Fargo
D) Tide Pod sales in Europe

Question

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Rachel's situation is similar to the Wells Fargo scandal where employees created fake accounts for customers to meet sales targets and receive bonuses. In both cases, employees were incentivized to engage in unethical behavior to meet goals set by management.

Rachel Murphy Works for a Major Time-Share Resort Company