Work Place Environment

Everywhere out there in the work field there is always and will always be Politics in the Workplace. In my opinion I think most of these work politics has to do with competition and jealousy. Workplace politics can lead to gossip, manipulation, mind games, fake relationships and more. I work in a pet food factory and their way of operation and positions is all about sonority, it doesn't matter who is better and who is faster or who the deserves the job the most its who has been there the longest gets better job positions. From experience of working there I don't believe that this is how they should operate , I believe they should judge people on their skills rather from how long they have been there. A lot of my works politics comes from a sonority and skill basis.

What do you think , job positions should be given to the person with more skill and ability or the person who has been there the longest ?

Give me some feedback it would really help :)