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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At my federal agency, it depends. For terrible non-supervisory employees with diligent supervisors, the formal discipline process can progress to the point of removal after about a year. For employees with leadership who aren't that diligent about getting them out, it can take forever.

For people in positions of leadership where the situation becomes intolerable (multiple EEO complaints, investigations, etc), they are usually pushed out into "retirement" or reassigned into a non-supervisory "senior adviser" position where they sit in a corner and do basically nothing. My colleague jokingly called these reassignments "the land of the lost." These upset me because they're still collecting a big paycheck, don't have to supervise people anymore, and have little to no portfolio. Sounds like a good gig for being terrible.

By terrible I mean a variety of behaviors to include harassment, bullying etc.[/quote]
Same at my agency. Though we do have one lovely adviser who stood out for stunningly clueless behavior related to diversity and inclusion and is now a big spokesperson for…diversity and inclusion. It is nauseating.[/quote]

Yeah I’ve seen that too. The offenders that are all of a sudden so “caring”.

The Senior Advisor is often a role for a crappy senior manager or someone who got in trouble for something. It is infuriating to see these arrogant useless people collect a big paycheck for doing almost nothing. We have one at my agency who makes so much more than I do it’s insane and no one knows what she does. Another was moved due to what was a stupid but highly visible mistake and I very much like them. No ego, takes whatever work is given and jumps in. Occasionally they’re the result of a reorg that ended up with too many managers and those people are usually okay. More often than that …..it’s the mark of something negative having happened.[/quote]
Private sector and we have something similar…we put them in “special projects” as directors or senior managers and they collect a paycheck. 
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