"We recently talked about the difficulty that VA chief David Shulkin ran into when attempting to fire one of his people who had been found to be grossly negligent.
That person was Brian Hawkins, who had been deemed incompetent in leadership and guilty of mishandling patient records, including sending some of them to his wife’s personal email accounts. Hawkins wasn’t out of work long after the MSPB agreed to hear his appeal.
He’s now back on the job awaiting final disposition of his case.
It’s not just the VA where we’re having trouble cutting out the deadwood, however.
This report from the Washington Post has at least one real eye opener in it.
The head of the Treasury has been made aware of problems at the Patent and Trademark Office.
Over there, a number of workers were found to be falsifying their time reporting, billing the government for hundreds of thousands of dollars for time not worked.
In some of the most severe cases, workers put in two hours of time, then had the audacity to charge the government for a full day plus two hours of overtime.
Only one person has managed to be fired in that scandal and that case may be put on hold also.
A union official denied any impropriety, saying his members “were available to work” but often finished their tasks quickly and awaited more assignments, a practice that went on for as long as a decade..."
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