u/Sufficient-Bother727

There’s a current probationary examiner who started with me at GS-9 and they have been doing 10+ count every biweek pretty much since the start of October when we started examining and I guess I’m confused if there is a benefit there that I am missing. They must be GS-11 now since 13 biweeks passed but can they use the past 13 biweeks towards the GS-12 1 year long promotion or something? Just confused why they are doing so much extra work seemingly for no reason/for free since the must we working involuntary overtime, can’t get most awards/overtime pay cuz probationary, and could do so much less in terms of count and relax more and still get these promotions. Is it just for SAA award, just can’t wrap my head around it.