# Employees are 100% responsible for detecting underpayment of insurance?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employees-are-100-responsible-for-detecting-underpayment-of-insurance/541327>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 30, 2010, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employees-are-100-responsible-for-detecting-underpayment-of-insurance/541327 "2010-05-30T22:50:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 4

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employees-are-100-responsible-for-detecting-underpayment-of-insurance/541327/61 "2010-06-01T22:34:25Z")

</div>

Since you want the question about the grades answered, I 'll answer. You and the university don’t have an obligation to give the student a grade that he or she didn’t earn. That doesn’t mean you must change the grade- just that the student has no right to demand that he or she receive a grade better than the one earned. There is no difference between the grade and the money.Just like you should have noticed the $900 extra you were paid, the student who deserved a D should have known something was wrong when his grade was reported as an A. I doubt that someone at your university decided that there was a moral obligation to not change the grade- more likely the decision was made to avoid student bitching. An acceptable reason to have such a policy , but it has nothing to do with morality.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employees-are-100-responsible-for-detecting-underpayment-of-insurance/541327/62 "2010-06-02T00:01:10Z")

</div>

I have read this whole thread and don’t see where any student deserved a D not an A; I think the low grade was bringing his average down to a B, which is different. I also am surprised if there are universities which agree to raise a grade but not lower it due to an error. And personally I think the grade should in fact be changed. I’m not sure morality is the word exactly, but I think people should be able to correct errors, period.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employees-are-100-responsible-for-detecting-underpayment-of-insurance/541327/63 "2010-06-02T00:49:23Z")

</div>

> [@kayT](#):
>
> I have read this whole thread and don’t see where any student deserved a D not an A

Post 49 in the tiny font

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![statsman1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@statsman1982](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statsman1982)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employees-are-100-responsible-for-detecting-underpayment-of-insurance/541327/64 "2010-06-02T00:55:09Z")

</div>

> [@doreen](#):
>
> Post 49 in the tiny font

Yeah, about that…

I probably should have posted my mea culpa in this thread, but I feared that people would be so sick of this one that they wouldn’t see it and think I really was an unrepentant douche.

Here is my [sincere apology](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12523848#post12523848)

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employees-are-100-responsible-for-detecting-underpayment-of-insurance/541327.md?page=3)