The Musk Email

[TemplarKormac]

Justice is the ONLY law in America, and Trump must carry it out.

Aaaaaaand that's precisely what he's doing.

 

[my2¢]

Musk warned in a post on X that any employee who failed to respond would be treated as having resigned.

People shouldn't be required to pay attention to any social media to retain their job. Conducting official business through posting notices on X is stupid.

 

[BrokeLoser]

Musk warned in a post on X that any employee who failed to respond would be treated as having resigned.

People shouldn't be required to pay attention to any social media to retain their job. Conducting official business through posting notices on X is stupid.

An internal email was sent…he posted on X in the spirit of that total transparency that disgusting libs suddenly care so much about.

 

[MagicMike]

Given the fact that almost 160,000 federal civil service employees are now millionaires, I think that Musk had a valid point. How the fuck does a civil servant become a millionaire?

Fake news

 

[Seymour Flops]

There is some seriously crazy shit going on in our democracy at the moment.

An unelected billionaire from South Africa is upending the lives of countless thousands of Americans, not only workers but their families, and is now forcing them to answer to him in an official capacity, as if he really is a supreme ruler, albeit one who is still accountable to the Emporer, who exercises the final say on everything.

At this rate, the abyss is doable.





Elon Musk’s demand that all 2.3 million government workers justify their work prompted confusion and resistance on Sunday, as several government agency leaders told their staffs not to reply to a mass email requesting bullet-point summations of their accomplishments.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard instructed personnel in U.S. spy agencies not to respond, according to the text of an email she sent to the workforce on Sunday, citing the agencies’ sensitive and classified work. Defense Department employees were given similar instructions to not respond, as were FBI personnel and Department of Homeland Security employees.

The latest directives come as employees and leaders alike across the government were caught off guard by an email sent Saturday titled: “What did you do last week?”

It commanded federal employees to “reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager,” according to a copy obtained by The Washington Post. It gave employees a deadline of 11:59 p.m. Eastern time Monday.

The email left many worried, others defiant and still others stunned. The resistance, which grew throughout the weekend, came even from some top administration officials selected by President Donald Trump.

Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency were told definitively to reply — a few hours before DHS sent a note saying the opposite. In some parts of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, staffers received instructions to draft a response but not send it yet. At other agencies, like the Department of Health and Human Services, employees were first given one instruction only to be emailed later to pause and watch for more guidance Monday.

Raising the stakes, Musk warned in a post on X that any employee who failed to respond would be treated as having resigned. But the email sent to workers made no mention of that possible consequence, which lawyers said would be illegal.

Musk’s threat also appears to contradict an assessment released on Feb. 5 by the Office of Personnel Management which concluded any responses to government-wide emails must be “explicitly voluntary.” Yet the weekend email was sent by an address at OPM, which serves as human resources for the entire federal government — and has been largely taken over by Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service.

On Sunday, a Republican lawmaker questioned the viability of the directive.

“I don’t know how that’s necessarily feasible,” Rep. Michael Lawler (R-New York) said on ABC’s “This Week.” “Obviously, a lot of federal employees are under union contract.”

Many employees at certain agencies cannot disclose information about their work to third parties without explicit authorization, security experts noted. Some warned of security risks if all 2.3 million federal employees are forced to reply to one email server sharing their contact information, their manager’s contact information and details about the work they do.

WaPo

I'm really having a hard time understanding what the problem is here. I've had jobs in the private sector, small companies and large corporations, been in the military, endlisted and officer, and now a public school teacher. At any of those jobs, if some higher up senior official had sent me a similar email, I would have taken about ten minutes to answer, and that's because I would want to check and double check for spelling errors.

I could understand if Musk just walked up to people and demanded to know five things that they had done. When you're a busy person, the week can seem a blur by the weekend. If I have time to show up Monday morning, look at my calendar and my notes, I would come up with dozens of accomplishments.

It's scary because it's different. But Trump promosed change and we voted for change.

The DOD and FBI agree with you, I T. Their employees have been told to ignore Musk.

Those employees would be wise to ignore being told to ignore Musk. I don't believe that they would be fired if their Trump-appointed bosses told them to ignore Musk, but why take a chance.

Trump will settle the dispute between Hegseth, Patel and Musk. No, it is not a "constitutional crises."

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Aaaaaaand that's precisely what he's doing.

He's improved since the first week.

 

[ThisIsMe]

Why are people so against accountability? In any civilian job, you have to be accountable for your work to your boss. In government, it seems nobody is allowed to make sure you are actually being productive, it seems democrats don't want those people to be accountable.

Shit, how do I get one of these government jobs? Great pay, great benefits, great vacation, great retirement, no accountability, and almost impossible to get fired.


I need one of those jobs dammit!

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Since we are on the subject -- what did you accomplish, Danny?

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

UNELECTED??????? You mean like Cabinet members, Supreme Court justices, ambassadors around the world, agency heads, and every fucking employee of the Federal government? None of them was elected.

The democratically elected President - the only Federal official who is elected by the entire country - has appointed scores of representatives to implement his policies - the policies that the American voters voted for. Elon Musk is one of the President's designees. Deal with it.

So the delicate little gub'mint employers don't think they need to justify their positions, like everyone in the private sector does every day.

Fuck 'em.

Just like every other large bureaucracy in the world, the U.S. government has some percentage of "fat," and management has to determine who the valuable, productive employees are, and which ones are not pulling their weight. Perfectly legitimate.

Not a problem.

I didn't vote for this shit, I won't put up with this shit.

Fuck you.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

UNELECTED??????? You mean like Cabinet members, Supreme Court justices, ambassadors around the world, agency heads, and every fucking employee of the Federal government? None of them was elected.

The democratically elected President - the only Federal official who is elected by the entire country - has appointed scores of representatives to implement his policies - the policies that the American voters voted for. Elon Musk is one of the President's designees. Deal with it.

So the delicate little gub'mint employers don't think they need to justify their positions, like everyone in the private sector does every day.

Fuck 'em.

Just like every other large bureaucracy in the world, the U.S. government has some percentage of "fat," and management has to determine who the valuable, productive employees are, and which ones are not pulling their weight. Perfectly legitimate.

Not a problem.

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