I had this illustrated to me early in my career in a mostly harmless way.<p>I worked on an early-childhood &#x2F; social work combo grant program as a &quot;Data Consultant&quot;[1].  We were in a building that had celebrated its 100th year, and it had one bathroom.  The nurse had accused the males of &quot;poor aiming&quot;.  In a memo about fairly normal stuff, I included a paragraph in my status rebuking this claim and pointing out we have young children using the bathroom who might not be quite up to our level.  I also pointed out this would be something that the early childhood people might need to work on with the children.  I am pretty sure every word of it was viewable by a nun since we had one on staff.  I was a very sarcastic person and not a bad writer of tales at the time.<p>About two weeks later, I got a call from the assistant project officer inquiring about this bit of information. He also informed me all of our correspondence internal to the program was reviewed by the project office in DC and a section of my memo was &quot;well reviewed&quot; in said office.  Given the data requirements, I am pretty sure there is a box in a warehouse with this memo in it.<p>Since then, I write e-mails and memos like they will be reviewed.<p>1) It was a research grant and they needed help with data reporting and I sure as heck didn&#x27;t come up with that title.