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Musk orders US federal workers to report on work by Monday or resign

By Valerie Volcovici. February 22, 2025. 8:36 PM EST.

Summary Musk says non-response by federal workers seen as resignation Emails sent to federal agencies demanding work summaries AFGE union vows to challenge unlawful terminations

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But they said Musk is not a federal employee, so why is he issuing ultimatums?
I hereby order US federal workers to not report to work on Monday or resign.

"All federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week," Musk posted on X. "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation."
Well that sure sounds super fucking illegal!
- Laws only matter when there is someone to enforce them.
  
  You're not wrong, but I'm going to keep calling it out anyway
- Sure is, but that doesn't matter any more!
  
  It's Calvinball, government edition!

I have a good friend who is a federal regulator who works remotely. The department has a few desks in Washington DC that the staff basically rotates through when they do important filings. They are shared by 50-100 people, which is fine because they don't need them for more than a couple days a year.
The department actually needs the regulators out in the field. They closed most of the field offices to save money, since the work can be done from any computer. The only address is the DC office, which is also significantly downsized.
Just from a basic logistics perspective, this does not work.
Making it work would require making thousands of expensive new rentals over months just on the face of it.
Department of Government "Efficiency"
- I would love to see all 100 people show up to the tiny office.
  
  Send the rent bill to be in the office to nazi musk.
- Given Muskrat wants all regulators fired, this is honestly probably what he hopes to achieve. ‘Oh, you don’t have offices? Then out you go!’

I thought he's not in charge?
- Krasnov Trump put him in charge.
- He's not. But everyone has to do what he says. Though he's not an employee. Unless it's inconvenient in which case he is.

Send him a 30 petabyte zip bomb titled "Lockheed Martin Contract Progress"
- The DOGE dumbasses would probably fall for it too lol
  
  Write it in cobol. They won't know what hit 'em.
  
  Was thinking on these lines yesterday,
  If I were a nation-state adversary to the USA right now, my intelligence people would be targeting DOGE with every piece of spyware they had

Wait, what about people on vacation? There are going to be people who come back from their vacations without a job I guess
- The goal is to create chaos. The details or even legalities are not relevant.

A comment on /r/FedNews on Reddit says -- and this sounds plausible to me -- that the goal isn't actually to get a summary of what workers did, but rather to get a user's manager, as they are also told to CC: their manager.
According to the commenter, DOGE doesn't have org charts for the federal government. Apparently that's not centralized -- but if they get an email where each person is sending that, they can extract the header information to build a chart.
I don't know if that's actually true -- I have kind of a hard time believing that there are no org charts in a format that could be pretty-quickly centralized at least on a department level -- but it's at least plausible to me.
It'd also be a good example of why DOGE set up systems to do direct email access to all employees, to bypass the hierarchy, and it'd explain why they demand a response on very short order (like, they don't want internal discussion in the organization prior to responses going out).
- How can they have lists of all federal employee emails, but not their organization structure?
- CC: [fuckyou.list]
  Have fun sorting this out.
  If you get one of these emails you are here by required to forward it to every email address you know and sign the returning email addresses up for the most heinous spam campaigns you can find. Respond from each email address CCing 1000s of you "supervisors".
  Break their database.
- This is a smarter breakdown. I had a similar thought that this is a test to see how many people will conform to a random demand, basically fielding for which departments are fighting against his authority to know the areas to focus on.
- You give them too much credit, goal is mass firing. They'll fire everyone that doesn't respond just to see if it matters.
  
  Porque no los dos?

Use grok to write some bull shit and hit reply.
- spits out more slurs than regular words
  
  Careful, will get you promoted to head of an agency you're not qualified to run with these fascists.

Termination will be taken as direct retaliation. Thanks for the free windfall.
- I wish I could invest in a law firm right now. Employment lawyers bout to have a field day.
  
  Imagine how many billable hours from all this nonsense?

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