Sadly, this is a very common occurrence if you’re white bread. I know lots and lots and lots of top-shelf professionals who have been bypassed for a quota hire. The newly empowered idiot then takes all the credit for successes and blames everyone else for their failures; which are frequent. My previous employer lost an ENTIRE DEPARTMENT over two of these @holes! After we all quit they finally figured out who the problem was but still did nothing about it.
