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Today while I was shutting down my computer and getting ready to leave work I happened to hear a shared printer start to print off several sheets.

I had thought I was the last one in the office, so out of curiosity I went over to the printer to see who was printing. It turned out to not be anyone from my office at all. Instead I found that someone had decided to allow their middle-school daughter to use their laptop and VPN connection in order to finish a book report.

The report was a retrospective of how they felt Martin Luther King day has influenced them and their friends. It was actually quite an interesting read, since it included phrases such as “People are still broken into cliques and groups such as sluts, dweebs, goths, cheerleaders, bandos, wannabes, douchebags..” etc.

Well, seeing as how I was the last one in the office I grabbed a red pen and I graded the paper. I was not kind… I corrected lots of spelling/usage errors and wrote the question “Do members of these groups self-identify with the groups you placed them in?”

My fun almost complete, I tried to figure out what to do with the paper so I could teach the entire office a good lesson about letting others use their laptops. I was considering putting it on the copier glass, or perhaps hanging it on the bulletin board in the break room.

Then I read the last name of the student again. This was a high ranking person in my office, and I suddenly realized that public humiliation of this person would be very, very bad for me. So I marked the paper as a “B+” and put it in the Vice President’s mailbox. At least someone will appreciate my anonymous effort.