IS THIS THE LESSON WE'RE SUPPOSED TO LEARN? Northern Illinois employees get a dirty do-over for completing ethics training too fast.

Eric Castellucci was one of several student employees who avoided ethics training repercussions.

Of the 8,400 NIU employees who completed online ethics training last fall, more than 600 people have been issued a packet in response to completing ethics training in 10 minutes or less, said Deborah Haliczer, director of Employee Relations and Ethics Training administrator in Human Resources.

Castellucci, a sophomore marketing major and student manager at Pizza Plus, said he was told by other students to use the suggested 30-minute completion time when taking the online test.

"A lot of people just went on Facebook, or did whatever they could to kill time," he said. "We all just thought it was a blank threat to make sure you completed it."

Let me see if I understand this. It's wrong to treat the training as something to blitz through in 10 minutes, but it's right to multi-task a little so as to stretch the time logged on to a more satisfactory 30 or 60 minutes?