Here& #39;s an interesting moral exercise:

I was perusing a pawn shop today looking for "made in USA" tools, and on a lark decided to buy a 1TB external drive.

I get home, fire up the drive - and discover it has files from a Black, female, retired university professor.
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I don& #39;t know this professor, even though I am TECHNICALLY on the faculty of the same university (long story, not relevant) and she doesn& #39;t know me.

There are copies of her performance reviews, some personal pictures, and some professional correspondence.

What would you do?

a) She retired 2 years ago
b) no, I did not open her performance reviews or any of the documents, because they& #39;re not my property and it& #39;s disrespectful. I read the filenames and realized what they are.

So complicating the issue slightly is that because she retired 2+ years ago, even though she has a university email address, there is no guarantee she continues to check it.

And I definitely don& #39;t think showing up at her doorstep or calling her on the phone would be appropriate.

So now I can be honest about this situation:

I emailed her before I ever wrote this thread. I sent a message to her university email account, using mine and explained the situation (how I got the drive, and offering options to send her the info if she wants it).

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