The French TV crime series "Engrenages" (Spiral), now coming to a nail-biting close on UK TV, is a graphic display of all the kinds of dysfunctional behaviour which are expressly forbidden in any sane company's Code of Conduct.
Setting aside all the obvious differences between French crime-fighting and everyday corporate life as we know it (murder, vice, dismemberment, blackmail, Albanian organised crime) the series demonstrates clearly why companies tend to frown on:
- Inappropriate office relationships
- Misuse of office furniture
- Tampering with records of conversations
- Breaking in to locked offices
- Co-workers betraying each other for career advantage
- Teams refusing to co-operate with each other
- Bribery, nepotism and dishonesty amongst lawyers
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