When “just joking” stops being a joke

There is nothing funny about real bullying. The joke here is aimed squarely at the person who thinks humiliation is a personality.

Why this tiny offence gets expensive

Exclusion and repeated cruelty can do genuine harm, which is precisely why the target should never be treated as the punchline.

School has its own miniature bureaucracy, unwritten rules and strange power structures. That makes it perfect territory for a completely unofficial counter-bureaucracy.

The completely unofficial accounting view

Petty Invoice values the offence at €150.00. The calculation is not economics, law or accounting; it is the ancient discipline of turning irritation into a number with two decimal places.

The charge description reads: Satirical damages line aimed at the bully, not the target: cruelty and exclusion are not punchlines.

Recommended administrative response

Use the invoice as satire, not as a substitute for support or intervention when the situation is actually serious.

The point is the contrast: a familiar little annoyance gets treated with the solemn paperwork of a finance department. The more disproportionate the bureaucracy, the better the joke.