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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you were a superstar, your agency will fight very very hard for you. If not, you will likely be fired. [/quote]

Give me a break.  You mean the new agency heads who started two weeks ago would fight hard for someone they haven't met yet?  Or their SES who also has never met the person?  This is just sheer brainless cutting.  Don't pretend that someone is actually sitting down to see who brings value and who doesn't.  That's simply not happening here.[/quote]

NP and this is my understanding as well.  No one at the manager level was asked to provide input regarding retain or not and I just don't see the SES people tsking the time to do write ups justifying retention of people they don't even know.  If they've really going to do this the right way they would have asked for management input. [/quote]

Same at my agency. We were told that the Business units pushing back we causing trouble for themselves.

My org was told they love us and we do great work blah, blah, blah but no exceptions would be made for us. [/quote]

I feel like Elonski is writing some of these answers - using term "business unit" etc.  and trying to get the person to take the fork. Person, I think it's 50-50 whether the fork is real. My SEC lawyer spouse thinks it's 100% not real. I think with the fork the worst that will happen is that your last date will be March 14. If you can hang on until after that, I'd do that. It would depend on where your agency is with telework, whether you are union, etc. FWIW in typical times you do need cause to fire people, even if they are on probation. Good luck.

No mass firings have happened yet? What is there to push back against?[/quote][/quote]
You absolutely do not need to have cause to fire a probationary employee. That’s why probationary periods exist. [/quote]

This is not true. Probationary employee must be given a legitimate reason in writing for separation. There are less avenues for appeal for the probationary employee. But if they were fired for political reasons, they can appeal to the MSPB. [/quote]

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