A guy I knew from the Air Force just posted on Facebook that he got laid off yesterday. He worked for the Department of Education.
This confirms, to my satisfaction, that we are INDEED getting rid of the dead wood in DC, because that guy was a useless fvck even back then, when I worked with him.
He actually got pulled for 6 months one time. He fired off a klieg light (highest priority report) to Ft. Meade because he thought he heard a "fire" order given. We pulled the tape, and it was a ***ing weather report.
That caused us about 3 weeks of misery like you wouldn't believe, and he got to mow grass etc. and then had re-qualify.