To narc, or not to narc... This recent post on the Green got me to thinking about why one would feel so compelled to act this way.→[More:]I find it fascinating that this sort of question seems to come up regularly on AskMe. Do some people really feel it's their corporate duty to follow "bad" employees around to make sure there's a big albatross hung around their necks at all times? Is this a generational thing? Is it simply some deep-seated corporate loyalty thing?

I bring the term "corporate" into it because the question always seems to revolve around the employee/company relationship. It's almost never "My neighbor didn't pay his neighborhood association dues. Should I tattle?" The questions seem to always revolve around events in the office.