Comment Number: OL-10501515
Received: 2/25/2005 3:04:53 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:

I am a current GS employee working for DoD in an Army hospital. I think this revamping of an archaic system is long overdue! I love the idea that supervisors will finally have some degree of control (monetarily & via job security) over employees that have far-too-long been viewed by the general public as clockwatching & lazy. I believe that the shares plan to replace automatic & quality step increases is a great idea. Tying performance to pay is something the private sector has been doing forever and it might finally motivate some of the less-enthusiastic (comfortable & fat) government employees to get to work. I hate that the AFGE is slanting this system during briefings (and with their stupid buttons), but I pretty much hate the AFGE most of the time. THEY DO NOT REPRESENT ME OR MY POSITIONS ON ANYTHING. The fact that they have bargaining power over me with my place of employment disgusts me. There should be a system in place to allow newly hired employees to opt out of any form of control by AFGE. In a perfect world, that might happen. Our AFGE President is a 20-year GS-4 medical clerk! Yeah, he represents me - NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT! The fact that I am motivated to improve myself, my place of work, my status, etc. sets me aside from him and the rest of the slackers who seem to haunt the AFGE office completely. I think the NSPS scares them because they will finally have to 'work for a living'. I have just returned to civil service after 2-years in a private sector medical environment. We had CONSTANT (but justified) personnel turnover because people were held to a standard. If that standard was not met, they were gone. It truly was as simple as that. And those of us who had to take up the slack during vacancies would rather have done that than have someone else on the staff not pulling their weight. At least when we had shortages, we knew why work might not be completed. I am certain that the union in all its 'wisdom' must have some reason to fear its members having to earn their pay, but I cannot for the life of me understand what it might be. I say YEAH for NSPS - it's about time!! I am glad that this change will finally stir up some of the sediment that has taken up residence within our ranks. Good riddance!!