I'm probably going to come off as an arrogant asshole in this post, but so be it. IMO "snitch" and "narc" are a junior high words. The equivalent of children calling people tattletales. To me, it's a sign of immaturity. At some point in life you will outgrow the mentality that reporting behavior that violates certain rules, codes of conduct, etc is not necessarily a negative action. People are responsible for their own actions. If you are performing actions that cause negative repercussions, you have no one to blame but yourself regardless of how those actions were discovered. Certainly there are circumstances where someone is being overly "nitpicky" and create a nuisance rather than doing anything constructive, but that's not what those terms are used to imply. Those terms have a negative connotation against someone who is actually doing the right thing by advising the proper levels of authority of misdoings. Victim? No. The only thing you are a "victim" of is your own actions of willingly and knowingly violating your companies policies. You have no one to blame but yourself. Calling yourself a "victim" attempts to place the blame on someone else. You do realize companies have policies in place for a reason, correct? There are a wide multitude of reasons, ranging from codes of conduct to legal issues. In many cases, if a coworker is aware of certain policy violations but fails to report those actions, they can also be held accountable. Why should someone else put themselves in jeopardy so that you can continue doing something that you both know is wrong and will have repercussions? There can be legal repercussions as well. When this lady that works for me was in high school, she was aware that people at her employer were taking money from the cash drawer but never told anyone. The employer finally caught on and the police investigated. She had charges brought against her as an accessory to the crime since she knew they were doing it but did not report it, even though she never personally took a dime. People need to learn to deal with the consequences of their own actions, rather than blaming others for their own wrong doings and trying to claim to be a "victim" of anything other than their own bad judgment.