His post on X said employees will receive an email “shortly” requesting to “understand what they got done last week.”
All federal government employees will have to share what they’ve been working on in the last week or face dismissal, Elon Musk said Saturday.
Musk posted on X that employees will be receiving an email “shortly” requesting to “understand what they got done last week.” A lack of response, Musk said, “will be taken as a resignation.” It’s unclear what legal authority, if any, Musk is relying on.
I replaced the tremie pipes to address the side fumbling on my department’s retro encabulator.
Classy, rockin’ the Retro Encabulator. Hoping to upgrade to the Turbo some time in the future?
I think it’ll be tough to find the budget for the 300 new hires we’d need to operate it.
Replaced the tremie pipes with frampton valves in our encabulator’s dint socket and got a 23% decrease in lateral frundling. Is yours the version 1.04a or 43?
Still on 1.04. I’ve been pestering my manager to upgrade to 1.04a for months now, but stuff moves slowly in the government. The day I no longer have to tighten the girdlesprings to synchronize the Magneto-reluctance fluctuation with the variance of the cardinal grammeters, I’ll be a happy man.
My wife just got one of those emails and it’s hilarious
This email has been received from outside of DOl - Use caution before clicking on links, opening attachments, or responding.
[EXTERNAL] What did you do last week?
Please reply to this email with approx 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager
Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments
Deadline is this Monday at11:59pmEST.
Tell her to report it as phishing through her security department. Those are the type of emails you’re trained to report.
this is insanity… so when will Americans finally implement trumpets desires and kick out this shitty immigrant back to wherever he came from?
What happens if you don’t respond?
— Copy of my other comment from this thread
Word on the street is that if you don’t reply you’ll get fired.
My wife just got one and sent me this right after
Posted with her approval ofc
So if your entire job description is classified, which is pretty common, you’re fucked.
This will be even worse than when he used the same strategy on Twitter.
This week I [REDACTED] the [REDACTED].
There are unclassified ways to talk about classified information.
Yep, sounds just like political nonsense, super useful.
Are you saying it’s not useful to be able to talk about your job in vague terms or that this whole order by Musk is bullshit? I can’t really tell what you mean here.
I’d send them the longest fucking email back detailing everything in painful detail of what I did last week. 99% being straight up fluff.
Well just got that email just now. I know why it’s happening i just hate that our safety systems we have in place arent doing anything to stop this nonsense.
Also that email doesn’t state anywhere about no response being considered a resignation. It’s been sent on a Saturday night, and given just over 48 hours to respond, meaning many employees will be on RDO and unable to respond.
Well i am working today and just got an email from my director saying that we are to fill it out cc our manager and he will find out more on monday. I refuse to send anything without more guidance and union representation.
This is the way. Every act of blind compliance helps validate doge’s shenanigans.
Sorry to hear that, they will undouptly run this trough an AI to decide. So game it the old fashioned way with all the buzzwords (and definitely none of the black list words) or modern prompt injection
He sent this even to contractors. There is no authority to hire and fire contractors. This is ludicrous, and also highly illegal for federal civil servants. I plan on reporting this to the security office as spam immediately Monday morning.
Perhaps Tesla, SpaceX, X, and all of his other companies should send him the same email. No way he is getting anything done as their CEO while he is ripping and tearing through the federal government.
It turns out, he can say “not responding to this email is a formal resignation” until he’s blue in the face, that doesn’t make it so. Ignoring the part where it’s not legal. He WILL be paying unemployment to all of them, and likely wrongful termination. Of course by “he” I mean “all of us” because it will be our tax dollars.
Remember, you don’t have to to work for the government to reply to hr@opm.gov
Just saying…
It’s quite easy for a Mailserver to ignore external mails
Don’t email servers still have to check who is sending an email to ignore it? You could theoretically DDoS them by accident i would think.
Can you imagine working for this guy. I supervise a small team and would never micromanage this way without a really good reason for it. Who the fuck has time for this.
It makes sense we’d move through “Office Space” territory on our way to “Idiocracy.”
‘office space’ probably still lives…
in treasury department computers.
Office Space was the first thing I thought of.
A pile of fish guts on the TPS reports does not constitute a “lack of response”, and is therefore not a fireable offense. Any wagers?
What time is your meeting with the Bobs?
Does this count Congressmen and Senators, too? How about Special Government Employees?
I don’t think that Musk is doing this for whatever he’s being directly paid. He may benefit indirectly in that reshaping the government in some ways might be favorable for his business or financial interests. But he’s not in any kind of need of money. Anything that the government would pay him would be a rounding error on his other sources of wealth. Just no point.
kagis
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-doge-paid-donald-trump-white-house-2032709
However, as previously reported by Newsweek, Musk is not receiving a salary for his role, according to White House filings. Musk has been classified as a “special government employee,” a designation that allows individuals to work for the government on a temporary basis.
Yeah.
Copy job posting. Paste into email body. Send.
[Scene: The Oval Office. JD Vance, the Vice President of the United States, is seated at his desk. Pete Davidson, a reporter, enters the room with a notebook and recorder.]
Pete Davidson: So, Mr. Vice President, I’ve been looking into your role here in the White House. Can you tell me what you do?
JD Vance: [smirking] Well, let me tell you. I deal with the goddamn politicians so the lawyers don’t have to! I have people skills… for people who are trying to get things done!
Pete Davidson: But… but isn’t your job more about policy and-
JD Vance: [interrupting] Policy, schmolicy! The people want me to deal with the people, not just talk about them. And let’s be real, I’m good at dealing with people. I’ve got charisma, I’ve got charm, and I’ve got a Twitter account that can turn anything into a meme!
Pete Davidson: [skeptical] Uh-huh… And what exactly do you mean by “dealing with the people”?
JD Vance: [leaning forward] I mean, I’m like a social media influencer for the Trump administration. I get to say whatever I want and watch it blow up on Twitter. It’s like having my own reality TV show! The engineers are just there to document everything so everyone knows I’m not a total disaster.
Pete Davidson: [taken aback] Uh… okay, got it…
JD Vance: [grinning] And can’t you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people who can’t see the genius of my role?!
Remember when Trump got rid of the White House pandemic office?
Because Trump was a great business man who knew how to save money.
