| Comment Number: | OL-10508654 |
| Received: | 3/15/2005 9:48:00 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:
All the things which the NSPS propose in THEORY are great. However, I don't understand how the National Security Personnel System will get rid of the good ol boy system. How are you going to enforce it? The managers and supervisors can just manipulate the results. They just do it on paper. Make one person look better than another because that person is their buddy or because he/she dislikes the other person. There is (are) a lot of dead weight, mean spirited people, incompetants and dirtbags in the Federal civil service. I don't understand how this is supposed to get rid of these people. Supposedly it should be easier. It practically takes a vote in Congress to get rid of the bad apples. So that would be good to get rid of the bad workers. But who is to identify the bad workers? Currently, whistleblower protection does not work. ************************************************************ Supervisors and managers just lie on paper and manipulate the system. ************************************************************* For instance, they can set a vague subjective goal and then say, sorry you did not meet that goal. Sometimes, not even set a goal and then say you did not meet something ******************************************************************************* I did not get a non-competitive promoted for just this reason. Office politics. Just because my supervisor years ago did not get his promotion to the same grade that quickly and because a co-worker did not deserve the promotion (she was here 6 months before me). They gave vague reasons and I was not being given the opportunity to perform the jobs that would demonstrate or develop my skills. The better, more impressive, higher jobs consistently being passed onto buddies. Never counselled properly on what one had to do to get a promotion until after it was denied and then only when asked. This sort of stuff will just continue. Filing grievances is A LOT of grief, time and trouble. I figure it's going to be pretty much business as usual. **************************************************************** I'm hoping the evaluations cannot be skewed and everything has to be documented and validated and that the National Security Personnel System will eliminate subjectivity and favoritism.