| Comment Number: | EM-017439 |
| Received: | 3/10/2005 10:43:48 AM |
| Subject: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| Title: | National Security Personnel System |
| CFR Citation: | 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901 |
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Comments:
I firmly believe this proposal is a positive degradation for DOD employees. A slap in the face for the people who actually make DOD programs work. I know how pay for performance would work. I see special treatment in our office. It allows managers to be abusive of their authority. The situations I've witnessed is largely due to managers who are not properly supervised by their superiors, or whose superiors who don't care. As far as the pay issue, pay is very personal and can become emotional. If you want to cut back on the workforce, do it by attrition, not by hurting people. Those who are proposing NSPS don't have to live by it. If they did, I'm sure the entire proposal would be different. If the government wants to save money, I have three recommendations. They are: 1. Weed out useless management positions. (There are plenty of them). 2. Change the Congressional Retirement System. Put them on Social Security. (That will fix Social Security). 3. Listen to the people. (Politicians are more interested in their own personal agendas, than what's best for the country). I know certain people in power don't want to hear suggestions like that, but they know, as the rest of us do, that these ideas will make a better America. Leadership: When a leader does what's best for the organization, and not what's best himself/herself. Is that the kind of people who are proposing NSPS? I seriously doubt it!