[observationist]

Good luck getting people to have integrity. Incompetence and apathy are the status quo. People are more interested in the appearance of smooth operation than in putting in the work to actually operate smoothly.

You're not going to change the organization; they'll find a reason to fire you. Find a company or work where you can have some agency and be principled without dealing with structural nonsense. Quit doing good things for this company. The director and whoever hired them deserve to fail. Don't fix it for them.

When people tell you who they are, believe them. They've told you, clearly, in actions and words that they don't care about actually doing the right thing, it's all about appearances.

If you find yourself covering for the incompetence of your management, your peers, or otherwise where it's not the work you're paid to do, knock that shit off. It's not nice or good or kind or anything other than you being exploited by unscrupulous people who either know and don't care, or are incompetent and don't know. Leave and let them learn from the pain.