In the NBC television show The Office camera crews follow a group of employees who work for a paper company called Dunder Mifflin. One of the main characters Andy Bernard most of the time is a very calm but very outgoing guy. Usually he along with everyone else in the office can handle the all of the pranking that goes on in the office. Until one day Andy has enough and becomes very angry due to the fact that Jim and Pam hid his phone in the ceiling tiles of the office. Jim and Pam repeatedly call his cell phone while Andy searches everywhere for it. Eventually Andy get tired of hearing his phone go off every five minutes and he gets very angry, starts yelling at everyone in the office, and punches a hole in the wall. Everyone looks up from
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After Andy goes back to work after his anger management classes he seems completely reformed. Everyone around him though is a little unsure so they try not to do anything to make him angry, except for Dwight. Dwight decides that he is going to shun Andy for three years. While at first it seems that anger management has helped Andy with his anger in a later episode titled Andy’s Anger his uncontrollable anger surfaces again. During an argument with the branch manager and the owner of Dunder Mifflin Andy’s anger gets out of control. Andy begins this outburst by kicking over a chair at the Dunder Mifflin owner. He then goes on to take a picture of the branch manager off the wall and throws it onto the ground causing the picture to break, and finally he punches another hole in the wall in the same spot that he punched a hole in the wall in the earlier episode. All of these outbursts eventually cause Andy to be fired. In this case the rehabilitation philosophy only worked for a short time until Andy eventually went back to his old angry ways.
Another philosophy that is prevalent in the show is the retribution philosophy. This philosophy advocated that a criminal should be punished in the form of jail time or sometimes even death. The purpose of this philosophy is not to rehabilitate or to separate the criminal from society as with the Rehabilitation and Incapacitation philosophies. The purpose is to punish the criminal for their actions because they broke the
After Andy goes back to work after his anger management classes he seems completely reformed. Everyone around him though is a little unsure so they try not to do anything to make him angry, except for Dwight. Dwight decides that he is going to shun Andy for three years. While at first it seems that anger management has helped Andy with his anger in a later episode titled Andy’s Anger his uncontrollable anger surfaces again. During an argument with the branch manager and the owner of Dunder Mifflin Andy’s anger gets out of control. Andy begins this outburst by kicking over a chair at the Dunder Mifflin owner. He then goes on to take a picture of the branch manager off the wall and throws it onto the ground causing the picture to break, and finally he punches another hole in the wall in the same spot that he punched a hole in the wall in the earlier episode. All of these outbursts eventually cause Andy to be fired. In this case the rehabilitation philosophy only worked for a short time until Andy eventually went back to his old angry ways.
Another philosophy that is prevalent in the show is the retribution philosophy. This philosophy advocated that a criminal should be punished in the form of jail time or sometimes even death. The purpose of this philosophy is not to rehabilitate or to separate the criminal from society as with the Rehabilitation and Incapacitation philosophies. The purpose is to punish the criminal for their actions because they broke the