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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.

It makes sense we’d move through “Office Space” territory on our way to “Idiocracy.”

My wife just got one of those emails and it’s hilarious

This email has been received from outside of DOl - Use caution before clicking on links, opening attachments, or responding.

[EXTERNAL] What did you do last week?

Please reply to this email with approx 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager

Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments

Deadline is this Monday at11:59pmEST.

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.

Well just got that email just now. I know why it’s happening i just hate that our safety systems we have in place arent doing anything to stop this nonsense.

"Fucked your mom. Sorry you had to find out like this."

Does this count Congressmen and Senators, too? How about Special Government Employees?

He's not going to even understand most of the responses he gets, so this is an exercise in futility. In some cases it would be like having a village idiot judge the Nobel prize candidates.

So his approach to reducing bureaucracy is having everyone document and explain what they do?

Remember, you don't have to to work for the government to reply to hr@opm.gov

Just saying...

Perhaps Tesla, SpaceX, X, and all of his other companies should send him the same email. No way he is getting anything done as their CEO while he is ripping and tearing through the federal government.

I replaced the tremie pipes to address the side fumbling on my department's retro encabulator.

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.

I sincerely hope this man goes to prison

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.

My company of 60 people has us do this and the responses don't get read. I'm sure 90% of people use GPT to give their responses anyway.

Have fun with that Muskrat

Can he explain his work without sunglasses this time?

Over under on 1000+ people being fired for being on vacation and not replying within the deadline?

I wish Musk's head would let go of his body

Remember when Trump got rid of the White House pandemic office?

Because Trump was a great business man who knew how to save money.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/

Copy job posting. Paste into email body. Send.

He sent this even to contractors. There is no authority to hire and fire contractors. This is ludicrous, and also highly illegal for federal civil servants. I plan on reporting this to the security office as spam immediately Monday morning.

Let's start with you, bub.

now everyone is getting messages to not do it. and calls.