standards of business conduct. annual training. With remarkably high production standards and costs, I might add. I'm a big fan of Nelson, the lovable everyman developer.
If its true that microsoft were doling out 40k bribes, that would be less than five minutes of what an sbc episode must cost to produce. The irony.
Former here, too, I found it part of "big company" overhead. Had similar things many years ago at a different European based employer.