| Comment Number: | OL-10508674 |
| Received: | 3/15/2005 9:55:43 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:
This NSPS is a disgrace to everything President Teddy Roosevelt accomplished in removing nepotism and favoritism from the Civil Service system in his home state which then became the model for the current Federal civil service system. Using NSPS will bring back a system whereby people are rewarded not for their consistent hard work and diligence, but where they are rewarded for whom they know and how willing they are to (quote) suck up (unquote) to the boss, whether they do a good job or not. People who do not perform well but who are buddies with the boss will be rewarded with higher pay and better promotion potential than someone who actually does the work required and even goes aboveboard to keep the system functioning by doing the work of the lazy brown-noser. People may perform very well but have a personality conflict with the supervisor who determines whether the individual should receive a pay raise or not and the person will not receive a justifiable payraise, which is supposed to be based on performance because, in reality, the decision to reward or not is based on personality likes and dislikes of the supervisor. After 27 and 1/2 years of civil service where I have worked very hard and have not only performed my job as written in my job description but have gone above and beyond and performed many other tasks I am qualified to do, I am now very concerned that my pay is going to be negatively affected simply because I do not (quote) suck up (unquote) to my boss. We have completely different personalities and I cannot change a half century of character to affect a character completely alien to me so that I can earn a justified pay raise for performance that will be based on personality, not actual performance. NSPS is going to reward favoritism over competence, nepotism over qualification and personality over performance. The inventors of the NSPS obviously have never actually had to perform work to attain their positions and earn their pay. They have never worked in a large system where multiple persons are performing the same or similar jobs and have never seen people rewarded for performance or lack thereof. They do not understand the long-term destructive consequences of a system where people, over long periods of time, are punished, not because they are not doing their jobs, but because they are not team players, a very nebuluous term, in the estimation of the person who decides their pay. They are not career employees; they are people who jump from job to job and do not understand the necessity for a pure performance pay based system such as the present fully functional civil service system. Endorsers of NSPS, to use the vernacular, haven't got a clue to the real everyday work-a-day world.