
There are policies and disciplinary actions that do not apply to those who are favored, I've been disciplined with PIP's in areas that the leaders themselves do making it hypocritical, I have been lied to by the HR team that discriminating polies are not in order to protect immoral company policies.
If you're in leadership the company policies no longer apply because they are the messengers and enforcers of the policies that VP's and up establish. The new culture they take on causes leads to be immoral thus breaking code of conduct but nothing is ever done because it's the new culture.
The best thing about my team is that most of us see the corrupt leadership. What I mean by leadership is those running the show VP or above. You've got leads and supervisors talking openly about the corrupt policies they have to uphold and don't agree with. When leaders agree, you know it's true.