Comment Number: OL-10500127
Received: 2/15/2005 10:49:06 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 have 23 years service, and the management I have encountered is very poor. I have only worked for one manager who thought about the people he had working for him. Every other manager thought only about him or herself, and how they were going to get ahead. Way back at the beginning of my career managers worked their way up the ladder, and they knew how to teach you a job. Today's managers don't know how to do most of the jobs their people are doing. This is because of politics, you get a position because you know someone. Then there are the lazy procrastinating managers that only manage when someone up the chain of command gets on their case. I don't kiss up, and so I don't stand a chance of finishing my career if this NSPS goes into effect. I speak the truth and a lot of managers don't want to hear it. I was taught to let my work speak for me, but today's managers don't hear, don't care, or I don't know what. If they were qualified to be in the manager's position is one thing, but too many were promoted to get rid of them for one reason or another, and now the system out there is too flawed. There are just too many unqualified managers in the system. If the NSPS gets put into effect we will lose a lot of very knowledgeable people, which the government can't afford to lose. To give them final say over someone's career isn't the right way to go. Paul Engle Supply Systems Analyst (717) 605-4227 chapter 43 and chapter 53 deal with giving managers too much power.