I have no idea what actually happened to the former administrator, but I'm told that this hyperbole is method for forcing Special Executive Service employees to

I have no idea what actually happened to the former administrator, but I'm told that this hyperbole is method for forcing Special Executive Service employees to resign. There are many hoops to jump through if the intent is to fire them, but part of being an SES includes not having much leeway when it comes to where you are assigned. So by forcing the person to work in some unwanted location, they tend to almost always submit their resignation instead. Where they were reassigned to I don't know for certain, but that's the tactic I'm told was used. I suppose "forced to resign" might have been a more belivable way to end the story, but supposedly the mechanism by which that happens involves reassignment to some unwanted location.