Office politics

For those of you out there who, like me, automatically become nauseous at the thought of office politics, I thought I'd pass along some interesting links. I know I still probably fall in the doe-eyed, ignorantly optomistic column, but I'd rather be there than in the sad, kiss-butt, I'd do anything and run over anyone for my career column. What happened to the perfect world I had always imagined in which people were judged on merit?

http://www.officepolitics.com/ethics/ethics_insecureboss.php

http://www.ivillage.co.uk/workcareer/survive/archive/

http://wlb.monster.com/articles/officepolitics/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_politics