Comment Number: OL-10510721
Received: 3/16/2005 11:33:16 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:

5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901: I am a government employee with over twenty years time spent working for several agencies. I have worked in several states. I have been employed in several different kinds of occupations both white collar or General Schedule positions and am currently employed in a blue collar or Wage Grade position at one of the Air Force's AFMC depots, Warner Robins Air Force Base located in Warner Robins, Georgia. I have always prided myself in doing a good job, quality work and giving the taxpayers of the United States their money's worth by my service. I am also highly committed to keeping the nation ready to defend itself against all enemies foreign and domestic. During my career, I have received numerous performance awards and also numerous suggestion cash awards for improving equipment that I have worked on. I have also done extensive temporary duty assignments worldwide to perform emergency and scheduled repair services as a civilian. I would like to respectfully submit my comments regarding the NSPS changes on the horizon. Notice that I do not include my name as I feel that this could become a problem if management is aware of which employees are commenting on this new system. The main problem that I have with this new system is with the amount of power that supervisors will have in the performance aspect of ratings. Here at Warner Robins AFB during the three years I have spent here, I have seen nothing but a closed shop mentality to be prevalent. The thinking of management here is extremely old-fashioned and stuck in a time frame that is ridiculously behind the times. The good old boy network survives heartily and if you are not a good old boy your chances of advancement are nil. I have seen employees who do not work for an entire shift, who do not report to work on time, and who do not accomplish their work in accordance with quality standards. Currently, there are personnel practices that could correct these problems, but they are not used by management. I do not foresee these problems being corrected by the new system here. Another problem here is that all employees do not work on the same generation of equipment--some work on new up-to-date equipment that is plug and play repair and some work on equipment that is built in the 1930's (I am not kidding.). Parts are basically unavailable and nobody seems to care. Therefore, this is not a level playing field for ratings either. The managers here will require innoculation with a tremendous dose of intellect to even begin to do their jobs properly. I really do not believe that they have a clue as to competencies or qualifications required to accomplish repair work here. I have no problem with a system that would be fair and simple. The proposed system of NSPS is not fair and is not simple. Thank you for accepting my comments.