Musk says all federal employees need to explain their work — or be let go
Musk says all federal employees need to explain their work — or be let go
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.
Wait. Musk has access to every address of these workers. Many have mortgages. Is this just a play to have the bank take their homes and then they are auctioned for cheap to Musk et al?
So his approach to reducing bureaucracy is having everyone document and explain what they do?
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
This is basically the platonic ideal of the most incompetent manager/boss possible.
What, is Elon gonna personally read 3 million emails?
Is he gonna hire a team of contractors to go through them?
Will Elon or his team of broccoli boys even understand any of the technical or process specific terms people use?
This is an obvious farce, all it does as serve as the flimsiest way possible to at any point claim he can fire anyone for any reason as 'I am unsatisfied with your self directed performance evaluation'.
Beyond this all being completely illegal, of course.
... Hopefully, if we're lucky, Elon will have all these emails printed out, like when he decided to print out Twitter code for review, and he trips down the stairs with a bankers box or two of these emails, and breaks his fucking neck.
Will Elon or his team of broccoli boys even understand any of the technical or process specific terms people use?
Ooooh malicious compliance idea:
Send the email and make it chock full of every acronym and industry terms you can think of. Make it as opaque as possible so only a technical expert can read it.
Include the entire dictionary in white single point font
And needlessly define the most obvious words while ignoring the tricky ones.
It's the same exact tactic as used in Elonia's "polls" on Xitter...
Attempt to show "cover" or "support" for what he's going to do anyway regardless of outcome.
Simple theatrics.
🤦♀️🤷🫏🤡🖕🖕
A baby or two would probably break his fall.
It makes sense we’d move through “Office Space” territory on our way to “Idiocracy.”
Office Space was the first thing I thought of.
What time is your meeting with the Bobs?
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?
'office space' probably still lives....
in treasury department computers.
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.
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
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.
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
Hey Musk you asshat, stop wasting all of our government’s time asking federal workers what they did last week! We all know what you did, mass terminations and backpedaling, because you and “DOGE” are INCOMPETENT.
——— The good news is that all of us will die someday. It’s a small consolation but it’s what helps me smile today.
what an incompetent shitheel.
Well look, I already told you! I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to! I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
Musk : Explain your work.
Employee : You gave me this work.
Musk : Fired.
lots of federal workers don't work a normal schedule or get government email at home. they won't even know about this til its deadline is past. not that that's the only problem with this.
"Fucked your mom. Sorry you had to find out like this."
"Spent some time with my kids."
I wish Musk's head would let go of his body
His head would just grow a new body like the monster from The Thing
Have him justify his existence first
He's not going to even understand most of the responses he gets, so this is an exercise in futility. In some cases it would be like having a village idiot judge the Nobel prize candidates.
He and his goons don’t even understand how SQL works.
Or COBOL, apparently.
Could it be they didn't understand some fundamental information on how COBOL handles default date values? No, it must be the 150 year old vampires exploiting Social Security!
Does this count Congressmen and Senators, too? How about Special Government Employees?
now everyone is getting messages to not do it. and calls.
I replaced the tremie pipes to address the side fumbling on my department's retro encabulator.
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.
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.
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.
Remember when Trump got rid of the White House pandemic office?
Because Trump was a great business man who knew how to save money.
It's like watching Office Space happen in real time.
Can he explain his work without sunglasses this time?
Judging from the article, my suspicion is they are going to use the data to train AI, to eventually replace human workers. It is not to justify one's self to not be fired, it is to allow the AI to replace them.
Let's start with you, bub.
My company of 60 people has us do this and the responses don't get read. I'm sure 90% of people use GPT to give their responses anyway.
Have fun with that Muskrat
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
This right here.
External email is asking for work information. It is my actual boss's decision if it should warrant a response.
Copy job posting. Paste into email body. Send.
More fuel for the inevitable lawsuits from all the people working for the largest non-profit org in the world. Hope they can make him personally responsible.
[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?!
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.
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.