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How about the CEO and director of HR are married, and your department head is married to the head of a department that your team supports, and the heads of finance are married to each other. All in one company! Strange power dynamics everywhere in those nepotistic little fiefdoms.

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Sounds like a family business.

I remember the first large company I worked for. There were married couples there, parents and their kids there, an aunt with her nephew there.

There are a lot of ways to have family at a company.

It wasn't a family business. The CEO fired the old HR and hired his wife to replace her. My department manager married the other dept manager. The finance head hired his wife when they expanded the department. With the exception of my dept manager, I guess it was just very lucky that these people's partners were "the best person for the job" out of the applicant pool.

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