{"id":2961,"date":"2015-05-15T10:23:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T14:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2024-11-04T17:03:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T22:03:54","slug":"in-fact-it-really-is-nearly-impossible-to-fire-a-federal-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/in-fact-it-really-is-nearly-impossible-to-fire-a-federal-employee\/","title":{"rendered":"In Fact, It Really Is Nearly Impossible to Fire a Federal Employee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Civil Service Commission Record Room (1936). Source: Library of Congress.<\/p><\/div>\n

I was a federal employee for 11 years. Many of my friends are federal employees. Civil servants too often are given a bum rap by mindless critics who disparage them as ‘bureaucrats who love red tape.’<\/p>\n

But facts are facts, and the current federal system makes it nearly impossible to fire a federal employee after he has completed his first year of service. Only .15% of federal employees get the boot each year… (Read more at the Weekly Standard<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was a federal employee for 11 years. Many of my friends are federal employees. Civil servants too often are given a bum rap by mindless critics who disparage them as ‘bureaucrats who love red tape.’ But facts are facts, and the current federal system makes it nearly impossible to fire a federal employee after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[141],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-2961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-workforce","tag-the-weekly-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-LL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5476,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions\/5476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}