I was in an office with a lot of rumors and politics. It only takes one playa' to turn a programming shop into that, sadly.

Weird. I couldn't imagine participating in that sort of thing, but then I can't really imagine specifics about what you're talking about. I imagine that if anyone at my day job tried to engage in something other than programming ("rumors and politics" presumably don't involve programming) they'd be asked to stop, and fired if it kept up.

And every code commit is logged, so I don't see how anyone could be dishonest about that.