Comment Number: OL-10502021
Received: 2/28/2005 5:33:45 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 handicapped and I took this job with the hopes that this would be a fairly secure situation for me and others like myself. Now I feel like I may not find this job secure nor habitable for me. Items such as the almost complete tie tio the immediate supervisors for raises and bonuses. The idea that I may be forced to deploy into a warzone as if I was in the military. A wheelchair does not deploy to deserts well. We already are best with a good ole boy system as it is, and your proposed system threatens to return us to the pre-civil srevice times when political ties and family determined these things. the only difference is that one is removed to be replaced by a new system that will be as bad if not many manifold times worst than the two older system. The emplyee will be the one that pays the piper as always. Yes, I'm probably not well versed on the concepts of the new system, but I can see where the loss of my ability to redress local problems at a locaal level can't leave me in better shape, in any manner. I am not crazy above somethings unions do, but I would die to preserve my right to redress in a venue that might get my grieveance heard and acted on near my location, and not far away. I have a fine supervisor, but we never know when we will not be so fortunate as many we get are many that are not nearly as well andowed with good common sense and a high sense of integrity. The system now breeds supervision that looks upon the handicapped and persons with health problems as a Blight on the DOD and society in general. You will never get one of them to admit how they are trained to see the common employee, except as one might envisin a head of cattle. I personally have been told that since I am handicapped,and have heart problems, that I should do the govtment a favor and quit. I have alsi been told that it was obvious to him that my problems were self inflicted , and thus I did not deserve any consideration. At another I was told that due to my health problems, that It was obvious that I did not want a job. It is common practice to bring someone back to work afetr a long and severe illness, and hound and harass that individual as if tremendously increase that persons stress to the point of nearly breaking down further. One person near me returned to work after a double masectomy, and the lady is still undergoing treatments that might break most men, and her supervisor harasses her eavry 30-60 minute. He is not doing so because he is concerned about her health, It is as though they want you to buckle and quit if they can push hard enough. NOW, you tell me you want make things worst foe me and others lke me. Yes, I am concerned abd destraufgt for we will be at the brunt of the new system. What I see is a return to an old sweat shop mentalty in DOD management. As one supervisor used pry for a reteun to the old sawmill mentality. I can find nothing in the proposed changes that tell me anything will improve for me, and others like me. I am long winded, but my abiklity to provide a living for my family is under attack, and I believe that this and anyother attempt to tell you what is wrong with thew new ideas will most undoubtedly go unheeded, and without reress. I voted for the president, but I must repent of the choice I made. I am convinced that Mr. Bush is going to force me and others like myself to an earlier age when we could not get work, nor keep it if we get a job wih the DOD.. Again I will be ignored and you will do what you will, regardless of it's impact on the citizens you have sworn to defend, and my I point out who pay your salaries. Mr. Bush has no one to stand in his way and reason with him. I voted for you sir, BUT I repent of my deed for I fear you care not!!!!!!! Bob Rinehart P.O. Box 1077 Perry, Ga,. 31069 rinehartr2000@yahoo.com 478-926-6564 THIS whole thing is a BIG waste of time.I fear!!