Comment Number: OL-10510482
Received: 3/16/2005 9:59:41 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:

I have been a GS employee for almost 15 yrs. Prior to working at the Naval Medical Center, I worked in a merit based system. It did not work and the hospital that used it, discontinued it. My comments are: I work with a VET that gets preference and does not see nearly as many patients as he should, as well as, there is controversy over the service he provides. He also does his own personal research during work hours. I work very hard from the time I walk in the door to the time I walk out, doing patient care the entire time. In this merit based system, he will continue to make his pay for doing less, do personal research on work time, and not lose his job because he is a vet. I on the other hand will have to "defend" my position as I work much harder than he does, and I see many more patients than he sees. Second issue: it seems you can do an excellent job at what you were hired to do, but if you do not do something extraordinary then you will be considered average and your merit based pay would be less because the supervisor did not have anything extraordinary to write down other than you are excellent at what you do. To me the evaluation should be based on what you were hired to do. I have recommended a program to the government that could save them above $100,000 per year, and I just keep getting comments like, the "system" is not set up that way. Well I have no control over "the system" but I have given them a very easy solution to save signicant dollars, but nothing is being done about it. So who is evaluating those people that could make the savings work, and it is not being done???