It's good to know that horrible VA employees who treat veterans like garbage might actually get fired for it, unlike in the past when proving their worthlessness was so difficult the government rarely bothered to try.
The AP writer who wrote this story has an interesting idea of how firings work. They're not criminal trials. In the real world, if your employer doesn't want you around anymore, you're gone. In the public sector and other union-infested shops, it's such a hassle to prove someone deserves to be fired, it's usually the path of least resistance to just put up with their nonsense. That's what happens when unions fund the politicians who make the rules.
Still, today we have a small step toward accountability for federal employees, although only a very small step: