| Comment Number: | OL-10506450 |
| Received: | 3/11/2005 3:29:52 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:
It doesn't matter how you look at it the NSPS system can turn into the same beast the present system is. Favoritism, family connections, inept and inexperience supervisor (military to civilian), and prejudicies are rampant. Since these practices cannot be eliminated, the employee must be given an avenue of legitimate appeal. The pay band concept sounds viable. I am in a non-career ladder position that requires technical and judicial expertise. It is not a senior position, but it requires more knowlege than some managerial position. I was hired into this position after being on Priorty Placement Program for a year. It was a grade and several steps lower than my previous position. I will max out the steps in 5 years. Which means, unless, I'm hired into another position, I will be in the same grade and step for the next twenty years. It won't matter how many classes I take, how many briefs I give, or how great I do my job, I will still be a GS 6 step 10. This is madness, esp. when I see people being hired into positions in which they are neither qualified nor have the experience. I have applied for manager analyst positions that were a GS 9 and received a "you were referred but not selected" and manager analyst positions that were a GS 7 and received a "you were not referred because you were not among the best qualified". I don't understand how one can be qualified for a higher grade and not the lower grade. It seems the people who are crying "foul" the loudest are the one's who have gotten fat off the system and don't want to share the pie. Why should people have to move all over the system to reach a higher grade level? Why should promotion or position upgrade be based on the grade, of the civilian, at higher headquarters? It shouldn't but it does and that's frustrating and demeaning.