| Comment Number: | OL-10511269 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 2:49:18 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:
So you want a brave new world. Here is a picture of the future, post NSPS. 1. Employees will be robots. 2. The robots will dare no new ideas. 3. All ideas will comply with managment-thought. 4. Management-thought will be governed by the Peter Principle. Robots will be promoted to the level of their incompetency. 5. Newly hired free thinkers will gain their business experience and training/education at taxpayer expense, then leave civil service for more respected private sector careers. 6. Seasoned non-robot employees will flee to retirement (saving the government salary dollars through de-facto age discrimination). 7. New robots will make mistakes and potentially cause loss of life in critical weapon systems due to brain drain of seasoned non-robots and high turnover of non-compliant new unused robots. 8. Remaining robots will become used material: expendable at management whim based on faulty perceptions of performance. (Loud robots get more attention than quiet robots. The squeaky robot gets the grease/pay for performance). 9. Robots will experience ever increasing stress due to unsteady pay each year, uncertain job descriptions, competitiveness of other robots, and continual job changes due to transformation activities. Morale decrease, suicide/homocide increase, turnover increase, gamesmanship increase (lie to get ahead) resulting in erroneous decision-making based on bad details from yes-men robots, decreased robot sense of ownership in process. 10. Robot revolt. of course, the carrot and stick approach of NSPS may prevent this for awhile.