The federal employee system created these people.
Making it ridiculously difficult to get rid of the dead wood sends the message to federal workers that they can almost do anything without repercussions.
And now the reality of what they thought would never happen.....they had a couple of opportunities to take a buyout and opted to pass it up......kinda hard to have empathy for that.
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Some people would rather work than sit around and collect a check.
“Some people would rather work than sit around and collect a check”
Fear of termination is a very effective motivator.....in the federal workforce that leverage is in large part missing.