Does Being Deviant and Having a Criminal Record Make You Popular and Admired These Days?

Question by Charles: Does being deviant and having a criminal record make you popular and admired these days?
Seriously there is this person at work who is deviant and needless to say has criminal records. He has tatoos all over his body. Yet he tends to be the most admired person by everyone where I work. Everyone knows his name and helps him out in everyway. He is doing a good job of redirecting his life employment wise by staying here. I guess I am a little jealous, I have no record so I guess I am just a boring thing but leaves me to wonder is being deviant and having a criminal record the in thing now?

Best answer:

Answer by Just Me
Well if you want I can steal affidavits from people with records and put your name on them if it will make you feel better?

I mean it’s the American way!

Answer by Kristin
I’ve often wondered why I didn’t have a terrible home life and/or drug addiction and/or mental breakdown that I could write some sort of best-seller about (Running with Scissors, Glass Castle, Million Little Pieces, etc). I suppose though we have a bit of a societal fascination with the deviant behavior it’s probably a good thing that most of us are more or less normal. You can bet your sweet iced tea that if the employee at work did something to violate parole or end back up in jail, everyone at work who is bending over backwards to help him out wouldn’t be bringing care packages to the county jail. Societal fascination with criminal behavior is extended to celebrities, reality tv, and the occasional guy who’s back on track. I totally understand where you’re coming from but in the end you’ll be much better off. If something goes missing at the office it won’t be you everyone’s talking about based on your “history.”