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
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!
I thought he’s not in charge?
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.
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Just from a basic logistics perspective, this does not work.
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Making it work would require making thousands of expensive new rentals over months just on the face of it.
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Department of Government “Efficiency”
Send him a 30 petabyte zip bomb titled “Lockheed Martin Contract Progress”
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
