| Comment Number: | OL-10504905 |
| Received: | 3/10/2005 12:39:58 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:
General comments: I have just finished reviewing the proposed regulation and it does not include specific requirements of anything. This is a very disgraceful document to try and unload on the federal civil service ranks. If I had not had the protections afforded me by Title 5, I would not now have 22 1/2 years of service to my country as a GS employee. My supervisor, a GS-12 fire chief, had gotten himself into trouble by selling government property to a civilian organization. I didn't take the fire house out of the fire department, I didn't give copies of government contracts to contractors, I didn't go on the fishing trips. Yet I was the one that had to fight to keep my job and protect my career!! He was caught and the old boy system was out to hurt and retaliate against anyone that was under subpena to testify before a federal grand jury. Yes - a federal grand jury and I dealt with the FBI! I was one of those people and I was not going to jail for actions on behalf of my supervisor or anyone. The next supervisor I was assigned to was hell bent on trying to find some way for me to be fired or anything that he could accomplish in the name of management!! I was not able to perform all of my secretarial and extra assigned duties because he would not let me leave my office except to go to the bathroom. My duties involved my working in other areas of the building! When I tried to bring this to his attention, he tried to have my civilian appraisal downgraded for not performing all my duties. Your new system has this kind of attitude for supervisors already built in and ready for anyone in the rating chain to punish an employee for any imaged infraction of the rules. Be it that they are having a bad day, to not meeting a suspense on account of another office not getting the information needed to you for you to complete your part of the suspense. What a system that should be inflicted on the federal work force. This system should be inflicted on the Sentate and House!! Let's put them in the same position they have not put us federal employees! If you don't show up to vote on issues, whatever they may be, you get a mark down on your performance. If you use bennies of any type, we will mark you down on something else. We will have a probationary period for your performance where we can remove you for any cause that WE deem inappropriate. We will set your pay and what pay band you will be working off of, with only minor adjustments each year if we feel you deserve a pay increase (no more voting yourself a pay increase by hiding it in a pork belly). We will be watching you more and more as you are trying to watch us and ensure we do NOT get a pay raise, that we do NOT get any recognization for our outstanding efforts, you get no more free anything. No more kick backs for special interest groups to line your pockets with. You will have to pay for those stamps you use, the medical care you receive, you will have to pay taxes on your income (all of it that you earn working for the government), no more free parking spaces or pay for your travel on government business. Take the bus, train, or commerical plane just like the rest of us. You are doing nothing but hurting the federal employees and you will not draw new employees to a career that you will never know from day to day if you have that job. Pray for us federal employees now in our hours of need, for we know not whether we will have a job, have a retirement, have a half way decent supervisor, or even be in one place from now on. Let us take this so called new NSPS system and ram it back where it came from. Let the government be run with the rules and regulations you are trying to force federal employess to work under and then lets see how well you work and complete projects to the satisfaction of the people who voted you into office. It may be a time for change, but not when you don't have the rules and regulations fullly developed or anything in place.