Comment Number: OL-10502696
Received: 3/2/2005 4:06:18 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 do not agree with the new NSPS system. It will allow supervisors and managers to promote or reward their friends and the brown nosers. This same bunch of people are the ones who tend to take advantage of being the bosses friend and they will bend the rules; i.e. come in late, leave early, take extended lunches. etc. But what about the people who are not the supervisors' friend. If the supervisor doesn't like them, they won't be rewarded, even though they show up for work every day, come in on time, leave on time, and don't take extented lunches. I have been with the govt 25 years and I have seen friends and friends of friends of the supervisors jump right up the ladder of success and others who do their job still sit at a grade they have been at for 5 years or more. Personnel has already found a way around hiring someone who has been with the govt for many years; i.e. the outstanding scholar and intern program. They write these announcements so that some supervisors' kid who just graduated from college can bump a 20 year govt employee out of a job. There is also favortism as far as supervisors' family members getting hired over a current govt employee. They open the announcement to the public so the family member can make the list. The family member then is selected over someone sitting in the very office the vacancy is in, and currently doing the job. I can't tell you how many kids of current govt employees get hired on right before the current employee retires. Then there are the supervisors who hire on another supervisors kid with the agreement that when a position comes open in their office that they will in turn hire that supervisors kid. I've seen supervisors who have opened announcements to the street just to hire on all his friends kids. I've seen it, don't tell me it doesn't happen. Finally, what about the supervisor who is lazy, and doesn't have a clue what is going on. He delegates work out to the employees and takes credit for that very work when it is complete. Instead of the employee who did the work or research getting the credit and possibly a special act award, the supervisor gets the credit and praise that comes with a job well done.