| Comment Number: | OL-10503806 |
| Received: | 3/7/2005 4:07:28 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:
These comments are not directed at a specific section but rather at the whole concept. 1) The government is not the corporate world. A government is run by and for the benefit and well-being of its citizens. A corporation is run for profit. Trying to apply "corporate" methods of "efficiency" to a government organization is doomed to fail as it does not recognize the root differences in goals and motivations. 2) This concept was sold to the public under a false bill of goods. As a new employee and manager in the DoD, I have already seen how possible it is do deny a raise to or fire an underperforming worker- all it takes is DOCUMENTATION. Denying a raise takes ONE signature on ONE piece of paper. Firing an employee takes a little more effort, but hardly more than the "corporate world" has to deal with. The REAL problem is that we have becomely organizationally and intellectually lazy- as well as too busy dealing with non-job related "crises." 3) Overall comment: The whole idea reeks of McNamara-ism ("I know better than you-even though you're doing the job") and we all know what becomes of that. The "I know betters" move on and the rest of us have to deal with the calamity they created.