Guess How Many Senior Officials Received an ‘Unsatisfactory’ Rating Across the Entire Gov’t in 2012

A Department of Veterans Affairs official testified Friday that just three of the roughly 7,000 senior officials working across the entire federal government received an “unsatisfactory” performance rating in 2012, or about one-twentieth of one percent.

Gina Farrisee, an assistant secretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs, told the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee that senior officials typically are ranking in the top three performance categories, and that being ranked in the lower two categories — “minimally satisfactory” and “unsatisfactory” — is almost unheard of.

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