You've to please your higher managers to stay in. Any thing you do against them or to their loved ones, You'll start getting warnings and your performance will drop obviously. Higher management does nothing and have no idea what goes with in the company, frankly they don't care at all. No appraisals, if you ask for one, most probable outcome is they'll hire a fresher and ask you to train him, if trained them you'll be out as soon as possible and if you are not able to prepare that resource then you are not performing accordingly.
If managers don't like you, then you don't deserve anything
Work related:
They say hell lots of process following but its just a hoax. Process will be mandatory if they want to prove something against you.
No new technology, no innovation and if you try to do something new, prepare to answer a lot of unnecessary questions.
Office Politics at its best. People follow Chanakya Niti very actively.