| Comment Number: | OL-10502447 |
| Received: | 3/2/2005 8:27:56 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:
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment National Security Personnel System 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901 I have worked for the government for 30 years and my experience has been that managers tend to follow the path of least resistance. By this I mean that if an employee raises issues that require dilligent and intensive superisory oversight, the manager will frequently choose the easiest path, which may not be the correct path. Several times in my career I have had senior (GM-14, GM-15, SES) grade officials express their contempt for their own workforce. The deputy of the organization I presently work for has said that he "expects his personnel to do what makes him happy, not necessarily what is right". I have seen personnel who made decisions that ended disasterously rewarded, and others who stood up for doing the right thing destroyed. Nepotism and the revolving door are the norm. The public should expect a less eficient, less effective, higher cost government brought about by workers concerned with keeping management "happy" rather than doing what is legal, proper, and right.