Executive nepo-hires his wife without consulting the marketing team lead, who then faces HR trouble after giving honest feedback about her constant self-promotion of her singing: ‘I might get fired tomorrow for saying mean things to her’

Look, the problem with some human behavioral patterns, mainly the ones as old as civilization itself, is that they're hard to break. Nepotism, for example, is just that. Most of us need to actually be good at what we do. A chosen few? They only have to be born or marry into the right ancestry.

Unfortunately for this marketing team lead, that's exactly what they found out. One minute there's an open video editor role, the next it's filled by the exec's wife. Skip the interviews, skip the portfolios. Her main qualification is a spot at the dinner table, backed by HR's soft explanations about "stringent networks," which pretty much means someone's spouse talked to someone's boss and the rest of us can just pretend to be surprised.

It keeps getting better. She unloads her YouTube singing into the group chat, insisting that everyone include it in the next promo video. Honest feedback is met with full offense, and the new star rushes to husband and HR. Suddenly, there's a meeting about "conduct," and everyone on the team knows how this script ends.

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