Summary
Elon Musk announced that all federal employees must report their weekly accomplishments via email or be considered resigned.
The directive requires workers to submit 5 bullet points summarizing their work by Monday night.
It remains unclear how responses will be evaluated or enforced.
Critics question the feasibility of processing hundreds of thousands of reports across multiple agencies.
Is Trump and Musk the necessary evil this nation needs? Are they pissing everyone off on purpose?
I used to have this pet theory that Elon was doing a zero’s requiem - to be such an oppressive billionaire that after he destroys everything, we’ll be able to rebuild fresh with a deep seated hatred towards billionaires and the systems that let them come to be
The idea is he goes from the “hero billionaire” that brings us the tech we need to fix the world and move forward, then shows his total ineptitude as he destroys the global economy, and finally dies or fakes his death so we can build a better world
But between the Nazi shit and the reckless destruction of things we need to handle climate change, the thought doesn’t come to my mind often anymore
I’m sure they’ll just toss them into some ai program to evaluate. Probably can’t be bothered to even evaluate the results themselves.
He’ll just fire those who don’t reply. It’s a “power move” not a legitimate management technique.
We’ve already been instructed to ignore it. 😆
Just say you saved $55 billion dollars.
Nobody on their team is capable of doing the math to check.
Guy who does nothing demands to know how workers spend their time.
Ah he’s back on that “show me the lines of code you wrote” trip
This is how someone who has no idea how to manage output or productivity thinks you should manage output and productivity.
My manager, a CFO in a startup was like this. He implemented it, making us write down everything we did. And so I did. In details. Spent more time writing the report than working. Left the company 6 weeks after implementation. Then they needed 3 people to replace me HAHAHA fuck you Lena and Michael!
I’m so torn about this as an activity. Telling my bosses what I’ve accomplished each week has been part of my regular work for 2 decades - so this doesn’t feel like an unreasonable request and I’m a bit surprised the info is not at the ready. But Musk is absolutely the wrong person to make the request and any decisions based on the information received.
I saw patients this past week. Like I do every week. That is my one bullet point. I still need 4 more bullet points??? This is ridiculous. I’m doing my job, that I have been asked to do. He doesn’t know what my job is. The AI they are going to feed my answer through doesn’t know what my job is. The people who do know what my job is know that I am doing it just fine. We already have an evaluation system that I have to sign every 6 months and submit bullet points with.
My supervisor, and their supervisors, are now going to have meetings about us responding. Then we are going to be told in meetings about how to respond. Then I spend some arbitrary amount of time responding. Do you have any idea how much combined time across the entire government is being waisted on this? This is literally millions of dollars in total time waisted just for the whims of a mad man. This is a prime example of wasting tax dollars.
Same thing he did with twitter employees. Micromanaging is one of the worst traits a manager can have.
Just ignore him. He isn’t in charge of DOGE, right GOP?
Edit: what the fuck power does DOGE have anyway? The president doesn’t have the right to unilaterally create a random department without a congressional vote.
Trump doesn’t care. Nobody is stopping him. He disregards judges who find against his actions.
The republicans are sitting on their hands seeing which way the wind blows if they’re not actively supporting trump.
The dems are powerless and disorganized if they aren’t negotiating with the opposition.
Absolutely nobody is actively attacking the status quo except people like Sanders and maybe AOC.
The president can do whatever the rest of government lets him do.
100000000% feeding them into his super scary smart AI. No human will ever read one of these emails.
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