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TIFU by looking at the security camera monitor and scarring my boss's retinas

This happened 2 days ago, but my one coworker thought you'd get a kick out of this story so they suggested I post it here.

We have several security cameras set up inside and outside of our building. We all have monitors that display the camera feeds (multiple feeds on one screen, like zoom call) that are visible from our desks. This is important in the event one of our clients gets into a physical altercation with another person on the property. Right now we are still not seeing any clients face-to-face, however, we occasionally get volunteers and random people visiting. One of these random people is a kid (maybe 19 or 20 years old) and he is here because of court mandated community service hours. Lets call him Tyler.

Tyler has been doing odd jobs around the office. Window washing, mowing the lawn, weedwacking, moving heavy file boxes, etc. He's always been very polite and energetic. However, one day he went upstairs (he was cleaning up there recently, but had finished) and my coworker and I were snickering because he was clearly up there just wasting time browsing his phone. We didn't care, but we thought it was funny that he chose to do so in a room that had a camera. (There are 2 rooms that do not have cameras because they are locker rooms).

We continue to casually check the monitor to see just how long Tyler is going to sit up there logging community service hours by doing nothing. After about 20 minutes, I look up and I see he's still sitting there, but he's moving his hand rapidly. I squint, already thinking the worst and hoping he's just bouncing his leg up and down, causing the arm resting on that leg to also bounce. He was not. I text my coworker and say "What. Is. He. Doing???" and they texted back immediately saying they were just about to say the same thing to me. I go to their office. Tyler is CLEARLY jerking off in the room above our heads.

What do we do? After some deliberation, and giggling, I decide to go to my boss. I pop into his office (poor guy is in the middle of his lunch) and say, "Hey would you take a look at your monitor for a second and tell me what you see?" He looks for a second, then realizes. As I was in the office, Tyler stands up, finishes (onto the floor?!!) and then grabs a tissue off of the desk. My boss was covering his eyes and kept saying "I wish we hadn't seen that. I really wish we hadn't seen that."

Now my boss is faced with having to figure out how to deal with this. Tyler is a nice kid, and reporting this would almost certainly send him back to jail. Not to mention the aftermath of prosecutors and parole officers coming into our office and disrupting our work. We've kept Tyler working outside since the incident.

TL;DR: I saw the community service guy jacking off upstairs in the building he's supposed to be cleaning, informed my boss, and he got to watch the grand finale during his lunch.

Edit: Forgot to include the fact that after he was done upstairs he immediately went outside for a 15 minute smoke break. Must've been good...?

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