Attendance
I’ve been with TSA over 10 months now and have the 2-year probation. I am attempting to use this as an effective stepping stone to finding other federal employment and am holding out for my year mark as that’ll count as 1 year of continuous federal service, thus making me eligible for the OPM-DHS interchange agreement. Bearing that in mind, I do not have perfect attendance and am worried that may come back to haunt me before my year mark. I was told in orientation that one officer who was cumulatively late 9 minutes throughout his 1-year probation got terminated a month before his year mark (again, this is when probation was 1-year and not 2-years). I’ve also heard that management doesn’t scrutinize your attendance record until the 2-year mark now. Is that true? I would appreciate some light on this matter.