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  How can the government state this is a new program when it is not. You still have to select out of top 3 applicants for the job and take a VA preference or spouse preference for a position. You have old original job descriptions that were not modified to reflect what your position really is and you are given an NSPS based upon old documenation since if you change your job description to what you really do you have to apply for your position. NSPS objectives are being interpreted at different installations and drawn up so differently no one knows how to create a correct one. You have a Pay Pool Manager that decides if your worthy of a rating your supervisor has written and if they can't visualize what your responsibity is they down grade the rating say of 4 to the norm of 3 and you are put into a group of similar series and you get a raise based upon how much money is in the budget and how many people in that same group divided amongst them. Now if your liked you get the money if not you can get nothing. Supervisors have no saving grace ... no union so if you get a supervisor who doesn't care for you and get a 2 or 1 rating then you can lose your job. Federal employees support facilities while our troops are fighting for our freedom. I believe this program to be unfair for civilian employees. If you wanted to change this system then change it for the better not for a system that is already being operated so differently throughout installations at the discretion of the organizations to choose how to implement and grade employees. The process to get rid of employees that need to be gone is not going to change with this system, because the if the supervisors did not document under the GS system what makes you believe it will be done under the NSPS system especially if the unions still support us. Government needs to rethink this program.

  Marianne Posted March 21, 2008 8:20 PM
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  Somebody please explain!!! We're in the middle of implementing NSPS to get the best and the brightest, my family's livelihood is at risk if a manager doesn't like me and now I have to read this: grades of "effective," "moderately effective" or "adequate," said Clay Johnson, OMB's deputy director for management. This is sick!! How come I have to be exemplary and innovative to keep my job but highly paid program managers need only be "effective" or "adequate"??? Why doesn't someone at GovExec.com ask the "real" questions on how unfair regular government workers are being railroaded into a personnel system that is prejudiced toward the lower grade employees? Why is there a double standard for performance??? How can we be expected to swallow NSPS when the program managers (who can now cut our pay) are held to a much lower standard?

  Gil in Tex.

  Gilbert Hernandez Posted February 3, 2006 9:03 AM