| Comment Number: | OL-10507238 |
| Received: | 3/14/2005 9:36:22 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 current personnel system was designed due to the inconsistency, favoritism and unfair hiring practices earlier in the 20th century. The vagueness built into this proposed system and reliance on individual managers (and their good-old-boy system) returns this to same system that was created the problem the current personnel system was designed to eliminate. Does the personnel system need some updates? Yes. Are there some things that need to be improved? Yes. But scraping and redoing is not the way to update and revise. We need to allow for employees who go beyond the norm. This encourages good employees to stay. We need to be able to penalize those who believe that once in the government, you can't fire me and stop working for the next 25 years of thier carreer. But this is not the way to do it. I am not signing this because as a DoD employee, there will be too many potential repercussions should this go into effect as is.