First thing this happened to me was with the Bolsas de Empleo. I think the translation for that is Employment Exchange but I'm not sure. Basically the way public organisms hire people.
Typically, when a new kind of employee is set, a basic set of parameters are added to note what profiles we want to get employed there. Like, if it's the informatics department, we want a programming background, medics want a medical background, optometrists require a career in said field, etc. These profiles can be permanently altered if, say, we get new machines that require said employees to have a better background on that field.
As you can imagine, the public sector here in spain looks at the exchange, grades people through a program, then adds that to an entrance exam, and chooses automatically who gets in and who doesn't.
Right well, fun fact. There's another function. One that changes the requirements ONLY FOR ONE ROUND. As in, "we're gonna require employees of this kind to have this type of degree, but only for this year, and go back to normal later." As you can imagine... This is some grade A bollocks that allows the ones using the program to just fucking rig it and get their friends chosen that way. You'd think then that this is some kinda nuclear option that would result in hardcore investigations if found to be used.
NOPE! After a scandal where directives were found to be using it for obvious corruption the government simply made it so now all functions related to employment are overseen by a board of unioners made up of the unions that cover the specific organism (with power based on number of affiliates each one has) and they get to choose it instead.
And yes, this indeed results on the unions having a reunion once a year to decide what changes they'll be making for this year with that program. Where they recieve the profiles the directives want to alter and how and vote on wether or not they pass it. And yes, that reunion might as well be called "the yearly round of plug ins."
That said, in some weird ass backwards way it kinda works. Because the requirement to change a profile is high enough that it's pretty hard for the directives to owe favors to THAT many people on organisms with a healthy amount of different unions, so typically the "favors owed" in exchange are shit the unions have been saying should be done forever, which is to say ways to clean up other corrupt nonesense and fix some very glaring issues with our current infrastructure. So in a way it kinda fixes more than it breaks.
But still, when I learned that not only was that function available, and not only had it been used to plug in friends but also kick out people the directives didn't want, and indeed not only did everyone know it was being used that way, but they were in on it. Yeah that's the point at which I realiced holy fuck you can't trust no one even related to the government in any way. I mean, I know at least some of them are honest, and try to fight it. But they are the extreme minority I can tell you that for a fact, and the tools they used are rigged to the point where even the honest ones sooner or later will have to start playing the favor game if they want anything fixed.
Never trust anyone who claims his organization, be it public or private, is 100% clean. 'Cause either they're lying, or they're delusional. I was honestly not surprised Dominion had those kind of functions inserted, I'm just surprised they were blatant enough to get caught like this.