| Comment Number: | OL-10509160 |
| Received: | 3/15/2005 1:25:45 PM |
| 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:
To Whom It May Concern, Regarding NSPS...for the record, I'm opposed to the current pending legislation that will adopt NSPS. The current personnel system is antiquated and does need reforming. It is layered with bureaucratic red tape and is burdened with favoritism regarding opportunities (promotion, details, and upward mobility), assessment (annual evaluations), and indirect opportunites to advance. Nevertheless, in the current system, a person who may not be in the clique, or one of the perceived favorites, may reach his or her plateau in the current system (the level of promotion they rise to in their career). These persons will continue to be invaluable resources of knowledge and experience as they continue on toward retirement. They may not receive the highest annual appraisals and may not get promoted further, but the great equalizer was always the next step increase they would receive, and the occasional Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) they would get to keep their heads above the rising tide of inflation. NSPS will eliminate this. NSPS will create an enviornment that will allow managers who are currently utilizing their favorites to have Carte Blance, and use these measures to no end. NSPS will allow individuals who have earned their college degrees to come fresh out of college to assume the high end jobs...people in my profession who have never turned a wrench on the weapon system, or don't even know what it looks like, but will get these high paying postions without paying their dues. The average "everyday Joe" will not be able to compete with new back-stabbing enivornment NSPS will create. Currently their are 4 deterents to the established personnel enviornment: 1. The complaint process...Grieivances applicable to the collective bargaining agreement; EEO; MSPB; and OSC complaints. 2. Within-Grade or Step Increases. 3. COLA raises. 4. Eventual retirement. These 4 equalizers allowed DoD employees to keep their heads above water and exist and survive in the current personnel system. NSPS will advocate a "Survivoristic" enviornment where key individuals will decide who remains with the tribe. Essentially, NSPS will allow a select few to remain with the tribe and remain the strongest to carry on the vision of the tribe elders. NSPS (in my opinion) is a feudal post-911 attempt to create a selective socitey of DoD employees under the guise of National Security. National Security? Who's going to treaten National Security here at work...did DoD uncover an attempt by Saudi Arabia or Iran to have their populace apply for DoD jobs? Are they taking over Civil Service? What National Security. History repeats itself...remember the Stalin regime? Is that what kind of paranoia we want to create at work? What kind of paranoia is NSPS going to create. Are Civil servants going to qualify for food stamps? Please reconsider the adoption of NSPS. Very respectfully, John Esquivel