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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few thoughts:

-It takes a LOT of time to fire a fed employee. Some supervisors simply don't have time, or support from upper management. My agency is terrified of firing people because of settlements, unions, and the time/energy needed. They just rotate the problematic people around and give them BS tasks.

-I have seen excellent employees rotate to a new team/branch/division and fail or become seen as "problematic" employees, not because of their skills, but because of the manager. Yes, sometimes it is the manager's fault.

-Obtain federal liability insurance if you are a supervisor.

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That’s right. It is extremely easy for a bad or malevolent manager to send a good employee into a tailspin. The better the employee the easier it is, because it becomes a form of gaslighting. It goes like this:
- employee completes a project well but with some errors that are within the accepted usual range of errors
- manager blows up and magnifies the error
- employee who has never faces this before is horrified, works harder
- manager micromanages and imposes arbitrary standards 
- employee gets more upset, tries to defend work
- manager criticizes “tone”
- downward spiral ensues [/quote]

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