| Comment Number: | OL-10505843 |
| Received: | 3/11/2005 9:06:26 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:
The changes were really not needed. If supervisors had the backbone to write up non performers, there would no longer be a problem. Instead the supervisors allow non performers to sit all day and do nothing. That will not change with the new standards. What will change are those preceived by management to be superior will be rewarded richly and the general population will have to pay for those rewards. No matter how good you are, if you are not a favorite, you will be subject to less pay. There is no system that can change management inactions and fear of taking action against non performers. We are not talking about weak performers, but individuals who do nothing. They are not even assigned work because the supervisor knows they will not do the work. Instead they are pushed off on other organizations because they are not wanted and won't work. Management knows they are not going anywhere. I don't know of any system that will change the real problems. The culture has been there so long, any change will be difficult. I feel for those I see who are highly qualified and passed over because they are older or vets in favor of the young and interns. One individual I know, even volunteered and went to Iraq for 179 days. An individual needed to be highly qualified to do the work. Even that was not enough to be rewarded with a grade increase. In conclusion, favored employees will be rewarded and the rest of us will pay for that.