Your call......skipper
I used to ALWAYS say to my crew in situations that needed a little "adjustment" to make em right for gate, passengers, crew, maintenance, schedule....etc..etc...etc.... The job you SAVE, may one day be your own. Everybody seemed to be on the same page after that sunk in.
Back in my days of steam powered airliners, we were ALWAYS doing something that was never discussed outside of the family and everyone (well, most everyone) did what it took to accommodate the situation. I once had 8 jumpseaters stowed in various places on the A/C on christmas eve.
As a matter of fact, I recall many instance during those holidays that stuff like this was done.
the consequences for doing that were just as serious then, but back then pilots were very ballsy and got fired at least once per week from the base chief pilot. Rarely did we take any undeserved **** from anyone.