I worked there for quite a few years and applied for several state office jobs for which I had ample experience. People without the experience required always got the jobs. I noticed they promoted friends of the commissioner very quickly. One assistant commissioner never worked as a counselor in the field. She went from teaching exercise classes to running the comprehensive program to then all of case services. I noticed others promoted rapidly to being area supervisors with just a few years of field experience. Yes they hire family members, which is not kosher and creates a conflict of interest. But worst is the hiring of buddies despite the required qualifications of the position. Some of these buddies take two hour lunch breaks, have religious meetings on comprehensive center grounds (on work time), and go shopping on work time. It makes you want the governor in charge of who runs things. At least there would be a change every few years with who runs SCVRD. That would end some of the buddy club. The buddy system leads to poor quality personnel in decision making roles and leads to poor customer service. How can these privileged people with so little experience identify/have empathy for clients.