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this is certainly one way of doing it.

On the other hand, it requires somebody who knows details of the rules and how to use them in a clever and effective way to accomplish their goals. ("Abuse" is still a kind of "use", and one can be clever without being moral. I know about the halo effect and its flip, the reverse H.E. or 'horn effect', and do my best to dismiss both out of hand.)

Wouldn't have crossed my mind to consider staff that's still on their probationary period. Then again, I've only ever been on job probation a couple of times and in neither case was I aware of it until I was told one day that my probation period ended. Didn't really seem like something that concerned me at the time.