| Comment Number: | OL-10505935 |
| Received: | 3/11/2005 9:47:45 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:
I have 23 years of gov't service - 6 active duty army, 14 total active / reserve army and 17 years of civil service (while in army reserves). For most of my career I have had reasonable, moral bosses. I worked hard and did the best I could. If my children were sick or I had a personal issue they allowed me to deal with it and as long as the mission was accomplished in a timely manner and my work was to standard, it was "good to go". The times I have dealt with naive or ignorant bosses were few - but I could see that the changes envisioned would allow those "naive, ignorant" bosses to wreck careers. I don't want to draw a paycheck for nothing. I expect to be held to a standard. I was happy to deploy and support the guys in uniform. What I don't want is a skeleton regulation that allows a new boss with two months experience in the job to walk in and fire a worker with years of experience. Personnal Experience: My boss wanted me to provide him with highly-sensitive compartmented classified information to take to a porta-potty in a combat zone. When I refused, he wanted to fire me for incompetence. We worked it out - but, should I have to put 20 years of service on the line to try to protect an idiot and then get fired for it? I don't think Donald Rumsfeld has thought this out to the "in the weeds" level. Make me accountable and give me work to do. Just don't make me fall on my sword and then blame me for it. Give civil service responsibility and protection. The regulation - as I see it - is not fleshed out and will lead to many future "Abu Gharab-type - I was told to do it!" situations. Don't throw out the baby with the bath water and punish many good civil service workers because a few were lazy or Human Resources was difficult. Take a few more months and build a Reg that will straighten out civil service - not gut it.