"Right," Marietta replied. "There are many who don't get fired that ought to have been. Doesn't make them good at their jobs." She wasn't implying anything at all about current company. Not at all.
She laughed and shook her head. "No, I'm quite happy with my own department. I just wanted to know if the people being assigned to work with me were going to be imbeciles or no." So maybe she was casually dropping that she was one of the FNA's 'experts' she had referred to earlier.