Back-stabbing in the dark

摘要

Literature seldom portrays the lives of businessmen at the office, and when it does they are usually typecast either as crooks or bores. That is a pity, since some workplaces are weird enough to merit closer interest from fiction. The Walt Disney Company, for example, an entertainment giant, is famed within its industry for having one of the most political, dark and back-stabbing cultures of any firm in America. The contrast between its wholesome fairytales for children and the personal hatreds andbetrayals that play out at its headquarters in Burbank, Los Angeles, is striking.