Comment Number: OL-10506590
Received: 3/12/2005 1:58:28 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:

While I agree that the DOD personnel system needs some fixing, I am in total disagreement that the proposed NSPS Regulations is the way to fix any problems. I firmly believe that if it accomplishes anything, it will be to create even more problems and I strongly oppose the implementation of the regulations. Pay for performance would become a very biased, unobjective, unfair system that would reward the butt licking, self serving, backstabbing employees who would run over others and stop at nothing to get ahead. The performance award system we now have in place can not even be utilized fairly, how in the world do you think that a "pay for performance" pay band system would work fairly and properly with the base pay? Why mess with an employees base pay? Why not fix the performance award system and reward outstanding top performers that way? And believe me - the performance award system needs fixing. I am employed by the Navy and some of my co-workers who do the same exact job that I do are employed by the Air Force. Those AF employees are rewarded with cash awards or time off awards but since the Navy is so cheap, the Navy employees receive nothing, not even a thank you - fix that system because it is a joke and it is broke. And by the way - who is going to determine who the outstanding performers are and who the poor performers are? And what gives them the right to determine what a employees base pay would be? Don't you think that favortism would come into play? - or are you just not paying attention to what is going on? There is biased favortism occuring in our workforce right now. I myself have been a victim of the "good ole boy" system twice in a 5 year period. Your pay for performance pay band system will do nothing but enforce and even encourage that very same "good ole boy" system. Don't we all want to get rid of that system? I think that total do nothings that continue to perform poorly and are not a credit to themselves or to the DOD should be fired or retired - not paid less. However the poor performance would have to be real and documented, not just fabricated or someone's biased opinion. If you weed those kind of performers out and fix the performance award system, then there will be no need for your pay for performance system that promotes biased opinions. I have given the US Government 16 years of faihtful, valuable service. What would be my incentive to stay longer if you removed longevity pay from the equation? I am already dead ended in the position that I am in. Why don't you fix that problem. Is my service to the DOD no longer important to you? Leave the base pay system alone and give longtime, faihtful employees who are a valuable asset to the DOD the longevity pay they so rightfully deserve. Just because I along with many, many, many other employees are against this system and are expressing our dissatisfaction, I still expect it to be implemented because that is just the way it is. That is another system we have in place that needs fixing. We are asked our opinions but are they really important, do they really mean anything, is it really going to change anything? I can only hope but I suspect that this unfair system will be put in place no matter what the backbone of the DOD workforce thinks. I implore to your sense of fairness, please do not implement the NSPS Regulations as they currently stand.