Army Veteran Whose Probationary Status Would’ve Ended in Five Weeks But Got Fired by DOGE: ‘I Was Crushed’

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GRAZIANI: "I was just crushed, just devastated by the news. I never would have expected something like that in my email. I thought it was just going to be just a regular workday. I show up, log into my email, and there it is, just sitting there. I printed it out, sent it to myself, so I had it for future use. I had a one-on-one with my director around 10 A.M.. By noon, my account was disabled, and then by 3 P.M. that day, I was walking out the door with my stuff."

BURNETT: "I mean, so you were what we call a probationary employee. Meaning you were a new employee, right? You had — you were five weeks away, actually, from not being a probationary employee."

GRAZIANI: "Yeah. Really close."

BURNETT: "The way that this — the capricious nature of this, right, was anybody who‘s a probationary employee, that was the cutoff, right? So this had nothing to do with you, right? You‘re just a name, you're a name on a spreadsheet."