WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

Let's say that you have a prosperous business that is making you a million dollars a year. But you discover/believe that the manger is stealing a hundred thousand dollars from it so you fire him. Then you hire another manager, but this one is so totally incompetent that instead of making a profit he actually is losing a million dollars a year. Then, although you have no justiciable evidence you have good reason to believe that your new manager is also stealing a hundred thousand a year from you. In other words you are way in the hole by more than a million dollars! Now, what do you do?

Obviously you get rid of the second manager. But the problem here is that the only other available manager is the first one whom you fired because you thought he was stealing from you. So? What do you do? Here are the stark choices facing you: (1) you keep the first manager because you believe that he is at least more honest than the first; (2) you fire the second manager, hold your nose and rehire the the first manager knowing full well that he will steal from you again - but at least (you reason) he will put you back in profit; (3) you say to hell with both of them and look for a third manager who you believe/hope will not steal - although at the moment there is no one on the horizon in whom you can place your trust. But time is working against you. You can't take too long to take a decision.

And that, my dear friends, except for the names and a few other changes, is the conundrum that we find ourselves in. So? I ask you: given the choices available, quite seriously, what would you do? Let's not argue about it. Let's answer this hypothetical question.