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Content: CaptMidnight | September 30, 2010  7:22 AM 
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Agree with the second writer: I retired from the VA - professional status in mental health - and my position remains unfilled but still counted as a FTE. The VA both throughout the country in delivery systems, regional offices, and the central office in DC have varying degrees of turnover and retirement but many positions remain unfilled. Some due to their locale and a specific profession to fill the position may not be available. The search often has to be started anew after an an employee is hired but is let go within the first year of probation for various reasons and the search would begin anew. The federal govt is slowed by union involvement and the process for removing a less than productive or compliant employee and as such the union is abusing their status in representing workers where [extreme] documentation is necessary to remove someone but then they are often shuffled off to another p