| Comment Number: | OL-10505751 |
| Received: | 3/11/2005 7:49:48 AM |
| 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:
In looking over the NSPS, I asked myself why the need for a new personnel system? Is it bacause our managers did not do their jobs? Is it because they promoted based on friendships? Is it because they transferred problem employees around from area to area so that they wouldn't have to deal with them or face any EEO suits? Is it because our MANAGERS don't know how to manage? Maybe you should start the NSPS out by applying it to your MANAGERS first. If you want a performance based personnel system, start by getting your managers to perform. Was it that they didn't have the tools available to them under the present system? I think not. Funny, these same managers are now the ones that will push the new personnel system on the workforce. Why don't you take a good look at who dropped the ball - was it the workforce or the MANAGERS? One more thing. Our Command started to cross train in the 1990s. Cross training, no matter how you spin it, takes away skills. For instance, I had 12 years as a spare parts buyer and now have about 9 years of cross training. What that did to me was to take away my skills, it made me a jack of all trades and a master of none. Cross training took away my status as a Subject Matter Expert and made me into an ACQUISITION HANDYMAN. Under the NSPS who do you think will get paid more, a SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT or an ACQUISITION HANDYMAN?