.... Findings The findings suggest that employees' emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses to perceived envy are intertwined along a continuum ranging from immersed to distant character. Furthermore, inferred personality differences not only influence employees' coping patterns but also shape...

... The tale is autoethnographic: a fictionalised account based on real events and co‐constructed from substantial field notes, personal diaries, e‐mails, and reports. Findings This paper contributes to relational ethics concerned with self‐disclosure and the “I” of a reveal, and highlight...