Life can be a little dull sometimes, can’t it? Work’s a drag, the weather’s grey, and a little daydreaming or fantasising can help the time pass more agreeably.

We bet there are a lot of you out there who, like us when we’re out walking, sometimes turn the collar up on your overcoat and pretend you’re a secret agent being followed by or following enemy agents. Put a funky retro tune on your MP3 player, a swagger in your stride and sunglasses on your face and - BOOM! – you’re James/Jane Bond.

It’s fun. Try it if you already haven’t – it’ll put a smile on your face. Be careful though, because if your daydreaming starts to invade your work and career it might be time to ask yourself some serious questions. It’d be a little bit sad for one thing. Pathetic, even.

Just look at French nuclear company EDF and the revelation that it has been spying on Greenpeace since 2004. EDF, clearly frightened they were losing the public debate over nuclear power, decided to go all cloak and dagger. So much for the courage of one’s convictions.

In 2004 EDF in France was paying an organisation called Kargus (which itself sounds like a villain from a Bond movie) 13,000 euros a month to provide ‘operational support for the ongoing strategic surveillance of environmental organisations and their activities and practices’. Former police officers and hackers were involved. The then campaign director of Greenpeace France, Yannick Jadot, had his computer hacked. The full extent of the spying is still being investigated. The Kargus hacker, Alain Quiros, has admitted the charges.

It’s all a bit ironic really, EDF being more supervillains than heroes. But them enacting their childish fantasies makes them more Dr Evil from the Austin Powers movies than Darth Vader. Like Dr Evil, EDF is already punishing scapegoats – two executives have been suspended ‘as part of a company probe into an "unlawful intrusion into information systems"’. The top guy is blaming everybody but himself. Where’s EDF CEO Pierre Gadonneix in all of this? Why hasn’t he been suspended?

Who knew working for EDF was so dull and unfulfilling that they had to come up with this kind of stuff to keep boredom at bay? Come on, guys. Here’s little friendly advice: grow up.