03-25-2025, 01:15 AM
Washington, DC, is an 'at will' state, which means you can get canned for any reason that isn't illegal discrimination. HOWEVER, federal workers is a whole other can of worms. You have to go through a process to fire people, and Elon did not follow that process. That's why they are going after people on probationary status, because it doesn't involve all the red tape. However, there are still some steps you must take, which they did not. And you still can't fire someone, even on probationary status, for illegal reasons. Musk is confusing the federal govt with Tesla and Twitter, where he gets to throw everyone out of work for no reason at all if he cares to (assuming they are located in at will states, and I'm pretty sure he would have seen to that).