[ SECRET POST #6052 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6052 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I thought nepotism was specifically family, not just a "knowing someone as an in" thing.

[(Anonymous)]

No, it can also apply to someone hiring their friends, too.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT.

It absolutely applies to being friends with employees as well, or being friendly with the boss. It's all about having a leg-up into getting hired by a company that others don't have because people are just more likely to hire someone that someone else in the company knows. Hell it's what networking is all about: getting friendly with someone in a company so when it comes to you applying they'll be more likely to hire you.

It's just more visibly obvious when it happens in Hollywood because they're in the public eye so people can idk cast moral judgements on people just getting work.

[(Anonymous)]

I think this stretches the term to an illogical conclusion.

When figuring out who to hire, for most jobs that involve working with people as well as doing some task, the point is partly qualifications and partly trying to pick someone who will get along with the existing workforce. The company is at a disadvantage when it has to pick between unknown candidates, but if one or more of the people already doing the job are willing to put their reputation on the line and vouch for a potential employee, that's often job-relevant information. It can backfire, but there are a lot of situations where new people feel more of a responsibility to learn quickly and do a good job when they're working with their friends.

Whereas, with family nepotism or other kinds of in-group-ism, there's an implicit assumption that, one, someone else might have been more suited to the work and wasn't hired, and two, the person who was hired might slack off because they think the chances of their ever losing the job are much lower.

[(Anonymous)]

It's used both ways. You're not wrong, though: I think the useage has been diluted from people levelling nepotism accusations at situations where especially cushy and well paid positions went to the spouses, cousins, children, etc. of CEOs, to this "if you know someone you have an 'unfair' hiring advantage, regardless of whether it's a desirable job."