Local fancied despots as department managers counting their time till they retire, esconced like the proverbial wombat.
Cronyism, Dutch uncles, goombahs, barracks buddy, whatever the local title is, it exists.
Racism, where entire departments are nothing but one of the three ‘oids’, and all applicants that don’t fit, are turned away, experience or not.
And lastly, the good old American Federation of Government Employees union.