| Comment Number: | OL-10507368 |
| Received: | 3/14/2005 10:35:41 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:
If we are paid, promoted and RIF protected based on performance I can assure you of this. I know the mission will suffer. I know my self-preservation will take over my mind set. I am sure anyone who has read all this propaganda will also see it as "self preservation" as well. Do you really think if I see a co-worker doing something wrong I am going to assist them to ensure what they are doing is correctly. No, I will not. I may even encourage them to do what they are doing knowing all the while that it will create a full-blown chain reaction with errors that will cost many person-hours to fix. Why should I speak up? It will not be my error and if I step in and fix it later, why I will get a brownie point! In the mean time, there will be so much mistrust between co-workers no one will get any work done or be able to concentrate or be creative; they will be so busy trying to watch their back or looking to stab someone that the mission will become a sideline. The sad thing is your current civil servants are not driven like that at this time. We are "mission" orientated. BECAUSE we all work toward a common goal of getting the job done. You know -- “Teamwork concept” - Your new NSPS will remove the mission from being the focus of our daily business. It will be reduced to seeing who can out maneuver each other to make themselves look good. I do not know who dreamed NSPS up, don't care how many advanced degrees they have. They are clueless as to how those of us out here in the trenches accomplish the mission. We (civil service personnel) do it better than anyone else could in the world! Problem is those in power seem to have a problem with giving credit when credit is due. Reason: They are too busy patting themselves on the back for having the power to rock the boat. Trying to get a promotion for themselves by writing a proposal that may look great on paper, yet anyone that really understands what we do out here knows it is a formula for disaster. Sad, management has never learned to ask the person doing the job how to improve the process. Maybe they should re-look at the mess they are pushing and go back to the table this time with us – the person doing the job. While we are on that subject. Does your new NSPS state that the person who is going to write my appraisal has to know how to do my job so they understand the complexity of the job? Oh, wait - there won't be a job description. Does this mean they make it up as we go? National security? Ha - that is why so many contract bids go out and get awarded to some contractor who hires people on the corner at the unemployment office and walks those temp workers on to our military installations without so much as a wants and warrants review! Now that makes me feel secure in my Federal workplace! In the mean time, civil service personnel are screened fingerprinted and background checks done. Lets all get on a fair playing field. How about the employee pool giving input on managers and supervisors and their performance and leadership ability. Now there is a "fair" idea. Write that into the NSPS rules and I might consider swallowing it without choking!