[A_non_e-moose]

> Your customer and company doesn't approve your paycheck. Your line manager does.

Here's a quite common problem. Execs tell you to listen to the customer, that's where the money comes from. Your direct line manager cares exclusively about himself at the customers' cost. What do you do? Which level of the hierarchy would you obey?

> Going behind their back because you don't agree with their decisions or actions is not professional.

Should you go behind the back of your manager and report his corrupt behavior to their manager?

Please don't take this as snark, I've been in this situation multiple times and it's actually a difficult moral decision depending on the stakes.