Well, again, my manager went to staffing and asked about a process to follow. They were given a process to follow and they followed that process.
When that process was questioned before anyone was hired by the head of staffing at central region, there was a meeting of my manager and me with those individuals. We went through that meeting. They told us they would get back to the manager in a couple of days as to what process would be acceptable. Even though we worked with them up until that process, and we wanted to hire—we had a staffing individual with us at every step—they said “follow this process”, which my manager did follow.
So I'm at a loss to hear we didn't follow process. We had a staffing individual with us at every step.
When one of my managers asked if family could apply, we checked with staffing. Staffing said they had every right to apply, and in fact you couldn't preclude them from applying. That was the issue about staffing individuals who may have been related who applied.