Bribery is pretty common. In many countries you almost cannot do anything without greasing wheels. My Father was a head of publicly traded pharma. Stories he ha

Bribery is pretty common. In many countries you almost cannot do anything without greasing wheels. My Father was a head of publicly traded pharma. Stories he had about China and India in particular were fascinating and sad at the same time. One time he was told that somebody dumped a huge pile of paper trash in front of his newly opened drug packaging facility in China. He investigated to find there culprit. It turns out it was from a paper factory owner nearby. Asked why he did it, his answer was : “you didn’t use my company as your paper supplier”. My fathers response: “how was I supposed to know there was a paper supplier nearby!! And why didn’t you come and introduce yourself before ?!?!” He ended up using the supplier and they did haul away the mountains of trash.