| Comment Number: | OL-10502694 |
| Received: | 3/2/2005 4:05:34 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:
The system is broken; there is no doubt about that. How many times have any of you just shook your head and wondered how a person got to be the high rank that they were? "Promoted to the highest level of their incompentency" used to be the standard comment. What is broken? 1. Education earned while in federal service NOT applied to a person's record and helping them move up in grade until an arbitrary timeframe is met--yet people off the street are hired at a higher grade with the same education and NO government service. What's wrong with that picture? 2. Waiting a specified amount of time to be promoted (or think that you'll be promoted only to be passed over) even though you work longer, harder, better than the person who received the promotion AND your skills prove it. "Set timeframes" should not be used if an employees skills indicate they are more than capable for promotion. And yes, horrors of horrors, even skipping a grade or two because they are "that qualified" not favored. 3. Favoritism--its rampant. If you are not a "fair-haired" employee, even if you work longer and harder than the "favored" employee you are ignored in training, in promotions, in good appraisals, and in time schedules that fit your needs. Yes. There still are the people who don't have to account for their time during a workday, still take two-hour lunches, still come in late and leave early, and amazingly are paid the same. 4. Centralizing Civilian Personnel at Randolph AFB (for AF Civil Service Personnel) is a huge fiasco. The customer service is less than second rate. Randolph seems to abitrarily change the rules on positions and placements. Randolph updates Career Briefs in their own time. Many positions are lost because of out-of-date career briefs. 5. Again, customer service! If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That's what is happening. Wouldn't it be great to call and get a "real person." At least you'd feel like somebody is listening--rather than push six to eight buttons and get someone who knows nothing about your concern and is not willing to investigate it for you.