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If you are hired for a federal position in any branch of the goverment; For your first year of employment where you are required to serve a 1 year probationary term, is it pretty much inevitable that management or other individuals will highly criticize your performance reviews, and/or illegitamately try to find ways to make it appear that you cannot do your job in an attempt to get you laid off and/or fired? I am in my first year of a federal position, and this one manager really has it out for me, even though I meet my job requirements, am never late, have not been absent once yet, am respectful polite and understanding to him, listen to what he tells me to do, and he still finds crooked ways to lower my performance reviews. He recently stated that I will be fired if I don't improve my performance within the next 5 days. I've talked to him, and he is very evasive, doesn't answer my questions directly, and continually tries to beat around the bush when I ask questions, and for help. ?

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2. Talk to his superiors...file a grievance against him. I don't know if that will work. But if your going to get fired anyway you have nothing to lose. Buy a journal...write everything he say or do to you that rubs you the wrong way. Date the occurrences and track of the time these thing happen. That's your evedience that this man is harassing you.
3. In federal jobs, there are always a higher up. Take it to your boss's supervisor. Exactly what do you do, I am in a federal job as well.
4. No, it is not inevitable, it sounds as if your boss is a jerk. If you can't work things out with him, go to HIS boss. But first, have a very serious talk with your boss, tell him you would like for him to outline EXACTLY what it is you are doing wrong, how you can fix it, and exactly what he expects of you. Do this in a polite manner and tell him you really want this job and want to do well, you just think there has been miscommunication regarding your job duties or expectations. If that really doesn't work and you think your job is truly on the line, definitely go to his boss.
5. This happens in civilian jobs also, so what else is new? You always have troublemakers to deal with where ever you go.
6. That's what you get working in a civil service position. You are working with many insecure, incompetent people. In your next job look in the private sector, where promotion is based on ability, not on longevity. Your boss may feel like you are trying to take over his position.
7. Some managers are just straight up d-bags. If you get fired, I would suggest keying his car and slashing his tires as a good bye gift.
8. Welcome to the world of federal employment! A lot of turds rise to become management in the civil service. It's something you have to get used to. I hired in and had a not-too-fun manager and had a mediocre first evaluation. After I transferred out of that group, the manager just gave me the same eval for an exit rating. Talk about poop! My only advice is kiss his a$$ often do everything you can to stay in his graces. After your probationary period is up, you don't have to take anything from him and can tell him off if you want to. Until then, play by his rules.