10-19-2019, 12:25 PM
"Who you know" is still a time-honored way to the top of the stack, even among the working poor. Being a friend of a friend of the manager can be leveraged even at McDonalds. When it becomes a problem is when it puts someone unqualified into the position. But goldbricking is much less tolerated in the lower tiers (Amazon employees pee in bottles to make quota) than it is in the Boardroom Class.