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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s very difficult to fire a federal employee. Poor performance has to be well documented.
I worked with a woman that was on a performance improvement plan (PIP) - which is part of the process to document performance if someone is on their way to being fired.
As much as I wanted her gone, I ended up doing her work because I couldn’t let the program fail. it’s very difficult on the coworkers that share responsibilities when there is a PIP. 
They knew I was doing the briefing slides, and after she would brief them (incoherently I might add), I would have to re-brief them the actual status. 
She ended up meeting the minimum and was retained. [/quote]

You can't generalize like that, as there are more than 150 federal agencies employing more than two million employees. Yes, you have to document poor performance and/or misconduct. At some agencies, upper management is reluctant to fire anyone. At other agencies/subcomponents, such as the Board of Veterans' Appeals, upper management encourages managers to fire people. It's not difficult to fire someone if upper management wants to do it. The difficulty that everyone talks about exists when lower management wants to fire someone, but upper management is resistant.[/quote]

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