| Comment Number: | OL-10502579 |
| Received: | 3/2/2005 1:07:06 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:
My comments pertain to the new National Security Personnel System. The government and/or DoD does not OWE anyone a paycheck unless they earn it. We all complain about paying taxes, but several come to work for DoD and do not want to work. I am a DoD employee so I can say this. I may be old fasioned, but a good work ethic and dependability are what earns us our pay. I have been a government employee working in DoD for nearly 25 years and I have been on boths sides as labor and as management. I have worked very hard to get where I am without the good old boy network being invoked. There are many very good DoD employees that are examples that working hard, being dependable, and performing my tasks well have earned their pay and positions today. What I see in today's local workforce is the attitude that the Government "owes" me a paycheck. Government workers are sterotyped as lazy, non-dependable, and would never survive in the private workforce. I take strong offense to this general public opinion because our few bad apples have given all of us this sterotype. Our biggest problem is in fact dealing with poor performers. This proposed system for the first time offers the abilty to make poor performers actually do their jobs, or find another place of employment. I have seen on so many occasions, an employee taking extended breaks, chit-chat sessions, surfing the net, playing computer games and just "daring" a supervisor make them do their job and then brag to their buddies that night. This is a huge moral drain on the many good employees that DoD has. It is time we implement a system that will permit DoD to eliminate the waste with efficient, dedicated, and talented employees. Implementing this system I feel would be a real boost to the good performers, a wake-up call to those poor performers, and a responsibility of management to not permit a good-old-boy system which could be even worse than our current system. Under this system, a good worker can be effectively rewarded which is also something that is extremely lacking in our current system. I say good for this proposal and look forward if the day comes for its implementation. If you are a hard working, dependable employee, you should have no fear of this system.