A vice president from the customer service team told me that the company's largest customer was going to be conducting an on-site audit. The customer would be particularly interested in seeing the dedicated computing equipment that was part of their contract. As it turns out, we did not have any dedicated computing equipment. The past director of my area had, on multiple occasions, simply lied. To survive the audit, the VP asked me to lie and also to put fake labels on some of the machines to show the customer. If I didn't agree, I knew the VP would be furi- ous, and we might lose this client.

What would Kant and Mill say? What is the difference between a long-term versus short-term perspective? What should I do? How should I do it?