Try the formal route. Any and all IT "solutions" need to be completely thought through to avoid "Blow-Back". Speaking hypothetically, I know a guy who worked at a community college, and when his daughter went there, she would spend time in his office doing homework(since they carpooled). A fellow co-worker complained about "Kids in the office", and the daughter study time came to a halt(in the dude's office). A short time later, every job this squealing BI-atch ran on the database only ran at 1/10 the speed of anyone else running the exact same job....this performance "lag" would come and go at random times, but seemed to coincide with critical times this guy was responsible for producing the reports to the President's office. Karma is a Bitch, I'm just her disciple.