I think you're vastly over-estimating how much you actually need to do your job to stick around in a workplace heavy on connections/nepotism. I have stories fr

I think you're vastly over-estimating how much you actually need to do your job to stick around in a workplace heavy on connections/nepotism. I have stories from state government that are almost beyond belief. Elected officials using backwater departments as a place to give jobs to people they owe favors is a recurring scandal in my state. Said people get a six figure salary just for showing up, sometimes not even that, somebody noticing lots of people paid for not showing up is how the "scandal" often starts. Don't get me wrong, a lot of the people who got their jobs by knowing someone do their jobs but a disturbing number don't.