There is endless scope for backbiting, rivalry, and internecine feuding and plotting. Perhaps it’s my HR background speaking, but sometimes it seems to me that that’s all that ever happens. My job was just to repair or replace the damaged components of the human machine when the gears started to grind. Now, at a slightly higher level, it’s my job to help debug the programs—the legal code—that keep my chunk of the machinery running smoothly.
