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.
He doesn’t know what his employees do? Why is he in a position of power if he doesn’t know anything about federal employees work. Musk proves himself to be more and more incompetent each and every day
No point in replying, odds are they aren’t going to read all of those emails anyway. Or if you do, don’t put much effort into it.
If they want to clean out a department, a well worded email isn’t going to be what saves your job.
Even if you are one of the ones not fired, it would be debatable if working there after the dust settles would be better than the bread line.
I sincerely hope this man goes to prison
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.
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.
Over under on 1000+ people being fired for being on vacation and not replying within the deadline?
This must be one of the most knob pics of this guy I have seen to date.
If you’re afraid of their hollow scare tactics, just send a reply that says, “Communication received. Continuing work according to my job role as typical”.
Remember that they can’t legally justify these firings and likely won’t pay you severance. This is a weak intimidation tactic, this is when the other guy in the online game starts by telling you to forfeit before the gave has started. Make them fire you so you can collect unemployment and have standing to sue (if the world doesn’t collapse before next administration).
This is partially their insurance policy - same playbook as always, just accelerated. Like how trump 1 admin planned for tax cuts for wealthy to be paid by the poor when next person would be in office. Now they are just breaking everything and setting up grounds for historically unprecedented class action lawsuits for potential next person. If a decent person somehow did reclaim the presidency in '28, they’d be forced to acknowledge and allow the illegal firing, pay trillions in back pay and penalty restitution.
A reasonable judge would hold these billionaires liable to their last
pennynickel
So his approach to reducing bureaucracy is having everyone document and explain what they do?
Fascist are oddly obsessed with paperwork. Reducing bureaucracy by increasing bureaucracy is part of the contradictions that fascism rely on.
Musk : Explain your work.
Employee : You gave me this work.
Musk : Fired.
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.
I wish Musk’s head would let go of his body
now everyone is getting messages to not do it. and calls.
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.
Have an LLM write an incredibly long email using filler and buzzwords to explain a few simple things
lol
Dear fElon,
After the daily struggle to keep this government running despite efforts to the contrary and repeated unmitigated budgetary damage, I currently lack the crayons and the spare time to properly school you on a description of my job; even at a level so high you could use it as a space elevator.
Please let me know if that’s your goal, as we could realize a cost-savings for NASA. Otherwise, I can recommend some intro courses on forecasting and management that could get you a little more up to speed, and we can arrange a time to meet and talk afterwards.
Have a super day.
-Me
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.
