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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    1 day ago

    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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      24 hours ago

      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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        23 hours ago

        Include the entire dictionary in white single point font

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      23 hours ago

      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.

      🤦‍♀️🤷🫏🤡🖕🖕