Originally Posted by cslee

i think you've confused bosses with reporting supervisors. bosses that can influence your cep should be a superscale officer at director level. so in that sense, he is already a senior civil servant.

unless you're Div2/3 officers doing manual/routine works, then it's possible for the cep assessment to be delegated down.

as for fairness, i would say CS in general is fair. When i come across co-workers that complain unfairness, i would say 99% of the time they are actually incompetent and lazy themselves (in my heart).