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When Mary Kay asked the boss "What did he do? Drugs? Armed robbery" and he simply replied...

posted 9 months ago by TheMan18 (12520)
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... "Mind your own business Mary Kay", I had to wonder...

Given especially what we see LATER happen, could that boss say have made something UP about Walter given how, well, factually, yes, they are more despised and people are more sensitized towards them and fearful of them than those other categories of people. Instead of just saying, however legitimately, "mind your own business".

So as to avoid raising unnecessary CURIOSITY around the subject's criminal past.

Or EVEN, for example, welcome him into this new company under the guise that maybe he just has some kind of mental illness or some made up tragedy or maybe abandonment and maybe allow him to respectfully not want to talk about it rather than informing them all that he is a former criminal of some or other sort?

Maybe not much if at all COULD have been done to disguise his true nature and criminal past, but still...

[–] Dsx2006 (181) 17 days ago

"Protecting" a former criminal is frowned upon. Plus. bosses are not that respectful to begin with.

[–] TheMan18 (12520) 16 days ago

But in this movie and in that instance, we were apparently meant to think that the boss was right and in what ways is protecting a former criminal really wrong and frowned upon by whom?

What I really meant to say was - could the boss have acted differently with Mary Kay as opposed to angrily or otherwise tell her to "mind own business" in the name of handling the situation well, or maybe state "Sorry, confidentiality, can't comply" or something?

And some bosses ARE respectable. TV Tropes web site in this case also however claimed that he was acting as a "reasonable authority".

[–] TheMan18 (12520) 16 days ago

Also, would you say its better or worse or even DIFFERENT, with different KINDS of criminals, and with something like a "child molester" being in an especially HIG category one as such?

[–] TheMan18 (12520) 16 days ago

Besides, the boss at least in his own way DID protect Walter and wasn't on the side of those folks picking on him at work when they found out. And those people at the company did not, openly or subtly, in any way "reprimand" him for it, so much for "protecting a criminal (any or the most severe or otherwise kind" being "frowned upon universally" like that.

[–] TheMan18 (12520) 16 days ago

And sometimes, it does happen subtly, plenty of people with criminal pasts for instance may or may not keep anonymity one way or another and certain systems do assist with it.

I just wondered if the boss say would've replied in a way less snarky or snappy with "mind your own business" (many or some people to an extent however small consider such replies either rude or off-putting) it would not have raised Mary Anne's curiosity in order to research his past like that and then reveal it at work.