Return to Article: OPM to set up centralized personnel records system
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Although I would venture to say that I do not trust my own government with my personal information, there is no privacy in this country to amount to anything anyway. So, as long as there are appropriate security measures taken, I believe that I will benefit by having access, if we are granted access. One of the most important records that we are entitled to is an SF50 which has all current position and payroll information. Instead of having to wait on an admin person to get a hard copy to you without having to beg for it, perhaps we could print it ourselves.
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When the company named this "quicksilver" I bet they named it correctly. This will prove to be a costly, overburdened, and collosal failure before it is done. Congress has got to be totally crazy to allow this to be done.
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What a wonderful idea!
Agencies have yet to to assimilate accurate information for their own personnel into their "automated personnel systems", but now they can load this unverified and dubious information into yet one more database that can have incorrect data for everyone in the government!
What manager in their right mind will use this data to forecast HR requirements? If they did, what executive would put their career on the line and act on the forecast?
Did anyone else see the note that the agencies will have to pay OPM to do this? How many takers will there be?
This looks like a replay of the job announcement mess. OPM has USAJOBS, but go to EPA, Energy, Homeland Security, and a number of other agencies and you find they require the applicant to log in and populate their own system in AVUE or similar Off The Shelf (OTS) software to apply for the job.
By the way, how will each of us be able to 1) verify the info on us is correct; and 2) correct the errors that will certainly be found?
Like I said. What a wonderful idea!
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This will undoubtedly turn into the biggest debacle imagined. With two years every business in the country will have the personnel files of every federal employee. It will only take a couple of rogue federal employees to sell this information to every lackey that wants it. OPM never did anything without screwing it up. This will never be any different. Privacy for federal employees will be flushed down the toilet; just what BUSH should do to OPM.
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