| Comment Number: | OL-10500243 |
| Received: | 2/15/2005 5:44:14 PM |
| 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:
In the mid 80's my old command SPAWAR (formerly NELC,NOSC,NRAD, etc.) went on a system called the Demonstration Project. It replaced the old GS system. At the same time, Washington shot itself in the foot by cutting the funding each year to the Command, thus rendering a "pay for performance" system null and void. Ostensibly, you can reward high performers, but with no money you really can't reward anyone appropriately. There is, instead, a high premium on politics and under the sheets hankly-panky to get whatever money there is for high "performance". The system, further, put such a high premium on "management" of employees that some managers created mini-dictatorships, and it almost came to the point of timing restroom breaks. I would never again go back to such a system. There is, in other words, a much higher emphasis put on the management (or micro-management) of employees for basically no money in tight budget times. The Command where I now work is mostly military. There are only a few civilians in the Naval Legal Service Office. Military would not know how, nor would they care to be burdened, with taking on a pay-for-performance system for the civilians who work for them. I would rather work in the private sector, even in a grocery store, than see the government as a whole turn into another SPAWAR!