@Fred13 Much, much easier these days. You can be totally incompetent at your job, but all your co-workers are, too, so no one gets fired. Such fools we were, to think we actually had to be answerable for poor decisions, laziness, and incompetence.
When my oldest daughter, who has always been one of those totally organized, competent people, staying late at high school to finish the articles her classmates didn't complete by the deadline for the school newspaper, in addition to being an A student, and captain of the volleyball team, got her first real job at 18, she got a shock.
She was a temp office worker, sent to fill in for employees on holiday, maternity leave, out sick. Her first day, she witnessed the supervisor at the office she had been sent to spend 2 hours on the phone, during paid work time, arranging a private ski trip for her son. My daughter simply couldn't fathom how anyone would think that's okay or get away with it.