I've been at a company where there was politics, inside our dept., between depts., between managers, it was all pretty unpleasant. The place where I am now, the politics are of a very friendly nature. Worst case scenario, someone is whistling in their office, so the rest of us would put in earbuds for music. More typically, we'd be talking kak about our customers that are late on payments (seriously, who lets R3.5 million lapse past 120 days?! This is also the main source of drama around these parts.) or our customers who are clueless, or about how clueless the bean counter is. All in all, it's a really nice environment.