| Comment Number: | OL-10511326 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 3:05:21 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:
These are general comments and, as such, apply to the NSPS overall without referencing specific sections. My primary concern is that despite its intention to transform the personnel system, the NSPS will only make a bad system worse. Based upon observations and knowledge of atrocious behavior in the form of nepostism, favoritism, and cronyism in the current system, I fear that the new system will actually be even more freewheeling and subjective. Perhaps it's evidence of human nature, but it seems that those who get in and get ahead are often those whose primary talents are brown-nosing their boss while backstabbing their coworkers. Their hardworking colleagues, in turn, are less productive than they could be thanks to having to watch their backs and feeling down over the deplorable state of rating and retaining employees. I have been discouraged that, over the years, I have been asked to sign my evaluation even though my supervisor hadn't so much as checked a box. My supervisor then nonchalantly checked a box (HS) so that I would sign it. I consider myself to be a very capable and diligent worker, but I find the way the system works here to be distracting and demoralizing with absolutely no accountability of the supervisor's arbitrary and capricious treatment of their employees...inequitable and often juvenile behavior reigns. I am also disconserted as to how locality pay and COLAs may be reduced or eliminated, again at the whim of a supervisor who wishes to give the greatest monetary awards to those favored few in the boss's inner sanctum (i.e., inner rectum) at the expense of the other employees trying to get their work done. For far too long and far too often, I've observed that an individual's competency is inversely proportional to their compensation for performance. I hope that NSPS is able to rectify this entrenched attidude...but I doubt it.