Gangsta

Being "gangsta" is a unique social phenomenon. Like other social groups, gangstas relate most to other people who identify as being like them and will prioritize those gangsta relationships over those with more common folk, who they do not consider to be part of their gangsta in-group. However, while most other social groups will adhere to general societal rules, gangstas tend to bend the rules a little more. For example, while it is socially accepted that if you snitch on a co-worker, you shouldn’t expect them to retaliate in any significant manner, other than maybe spitting in your coffee on a Monday morning. But if you do this to a gangsta, they might kill you, hence the phrase, “Snitches get stitches”. The upside to forming gangsta relationships is that you always have friends to rely on, no matter what, even if you must resort to these more extreme social tactics in the workplace. If you have gangsta friends at work, you can poison the entire pot of coffee before someone has a chance to spit in it, tell the people you are tight with not to drink it, and not worry about any legal repercussions because no one will expose what you’ve done. This provides one with a much different, but still equally powerful level of control over others in the group; they are not officially the leader, yet they can sway decisions just as, or even more, efficiently than someone who is considered by most to be the “boss”.

It ain't easy being gangsta.