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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        Include the entire dictionary in white single point font

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      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.

      🤦‍♀️🤷🫏🤡🖕🖕

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    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.

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      Tell her to report it as phishing through her security department. Those are the type of emails you’re trained to report.

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      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.

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      this is insanity… so when will Americans finally implement trumpets desires and kick out this shitty immigrant back to wherever he came from?

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        — 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

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    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.

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      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?

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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      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

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    Does this count Congressmen and Senators, too? How about Special Government Employees?

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    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.

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        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!

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      Fascist are oddly obsessed with paperwork. Reducing bureaucracy by increasing bureaucracy is part of the contradictions that fascism rely on.

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    I replaced the tremie pipes to address the side fumbling on my department’s retro encabulator.

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      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?

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        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.

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      Classy, rockin’ the Retro Encabulator. Hoping to upgrade to the Turbo some time in the future?

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        I think it’ll be tough to find the budget for the 300 new hires we’d need to operate it.

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        I think you underestimate how many individual mailservers there are in the US government. I know of an example where legitimate mail from one branch of the military was sent to the spam folder of another branch of the military.

        On the other hand, filtering out specific servers like gmail or proton mail sounds incredibly easy.

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    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.

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      In my opinion that’s actually only one of two possible outcomes, knowing the personalities and philosophies of those in power.

      He either becomes de-facto leader of the US or he pisses off Trump and other Money and goes to jail. The minute Elon loses support from the right he crashes and burns spectacularly. Pisses off Trump too much and its game over for him.

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      I assure you that even if this government falls there will somehow be no evidence that he did anything, let alone anything illegal. There will be no paperwork with his name or signature. Regardless of the pile of human garbage that is this administration, the US is completely unable to hold billionaires accountable for literally anything.