| Comment Number: | OL-10503328 |
| Received: | 3/4/2005 7:46:35 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:
Expecting supervisors to be honest in evaluations is a joke. It is a good old boy network. The ones they like will get the raises and good evaluations, and the people they don't like will get nothing for their work. I have watched them do this for years. They will fire people who stand up to them or disagree with them. It is like going back 50 years in labor rights. It is also not fair to employees to expect them to work comp time and not get overtime pay. We did not enlist in the military. I did my stint in Vietnam already. I am too old for playing war games and so are many of my fellow workers. Our families cannot pick up and leave like when we were young. My spouse has her job to consider as well--she cannot lose her retirement with only a few years to go so you can pick me up and move me where you want me. People are so angry that I am afraid we will have one of those postal type shootings as you put too much power in the hands of unscrupulous supervisors and take needed benefits away from people that are already struggling to make a living. We are human beings--not machines that have no feelings. We need to be treated like human beings. This program feels like the old days before unions got worker rights. In this day of high prices and high gasoline, we can hardly make a living as it is and now you want to take away our overtime and put some "good old boy supervisor in charge of us getting cost of living raises. Our raises don't keep up with higher prices, higher gas and other utilities, higher taxes, and higher priced of homes. The regular working American is being squeezed into the catagory of the underprivalages and poor. The government wants more done for less money and benefits. I guess we are supposed to make all the sacrifices. If government wants quality work, they need to treat their employees with some respect and rewards so we don't feel like a chess piece on your playing board.