| Comment Number: | OL-10506441 |
| Received: | 3/11/2005 3:20:36 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:
1. Concern w/ terms "job clusters." Kind of vague - whereas a "1035 series" is more specific. For example, does this mean you could have an admin person writing news releases who has had no experience working with the media or journalism background to somehow save money for so-and-so's bonus ? Sounds to me like people can be moved around to save a buck, and quality of work could suffer. 2. The Guidling Principles make sense. Not bad. Put 'em on plastic sized credit cards so we can carry them around in our wallets or wear 'em on lanyards. 3. Don't like "...force ...easily sized, shaped and deployed." What's not being said here ? Civilians have not enlisted, ya' know. What a bunch of crap. At least use different word choice. 4. No one's arguing that government can operate like corporations in civilian pay management, however why is it being done under guise of National Security Personnel System? That's a horrific word choice which reeks of pushing a culture of fear. If you wanna change the system, don't sell us the war as rationale. Just change it ???? 5. Lastly, as a civil servant for 19 years, I believe self motivation is primary - "pay bands" or "grades" not really a big thing, with good leadership being second in inspiring good work. The idea of moving money around the office to reward and penalize workers will be met initially with quite a bit of animosity and hostility as we adjust to the plan where first class and second class DoD civilians within the office are identified. We'll have to get used to being fearful of a (military) leader with whom we don't see eye to eye - the possibility of being easily replaced... Team spirit and morale could suffer. Are we back to the broads earning 75 cents of every man's $1 ? Whateva. 6. Public service is dead under this plan. We will no longer be unified, with a common cause and equality. That was what was unique about Federal Service, DOD civil servants, whatever. It reflected the founding fathers philosophy. Now, it's every civilian for him or herself. This plan represents a culture of war. Not good personnel management. In fifty years, it will be looked back on hopefully, by someone who's not a yes man', and say, "What could we possibly have been thinking then?" I read that civilians must "complement and support the military around the world...just as new threats, new missions... change the work of the military...they are changing the work of our 700,000 civilians." I'll continue to do a good job for this country no matter what you want to call the plan, or how you want to implement it. But don't try to pull the wool over my eyes. We are no longer complementing and supporting what's good for our country or our public or military. We are becoming an arm of the state. Thanks for the chance to comment; sincerely, Carol Baternik