Elon Musk warns fed government workers
who don’t respond to a second ‘what
you accomplished’ email will face ‘termination’
New York Post,
by
Victor Nava
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
2/25/2025 12:53:39 AM
DOGE chief Elon Musk teased Monday that federal workers may receive a second email asking them to list their weekly accomplishments – and that failure to respond to it will result in “termination.”
The Tesla and SpaceX founder’s warning came hours after the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) notified human resource bosses across multiple agencies that responses to emails sent Saturday –demanding a list of five bullet points detailing what federal workers achieved in the previous five working days — were “voluntary” and that failure to respond would not be taken as a resignation, as Musk had claimed. (Photo) “The email request was utterly trivial, as the standard
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Northcross 2/25/2025 1:16:38 AM (No. 1903305)
Heads of agencies need to stand up for their employees and refuse to support this ludicrous request. There are far more appropriate ways to downsize, and this does absolutely nothing to root out waste, fraud, and corruption.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 2/25/2025 1:20:33 AM (No. 1903306)
If you can't even attempt to describe your work, then time to go.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
BooneBoy 2/25/2025 1:40:59 AM (No. 1903310)
Trump explained it. If you don't reply and you work from home, it must mean that you have not been doing "a" job. It is a simple test to see if you are even reading and responding to your work email.
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It sounds like someone at OPM is suffering from: "Failure to Communicate"
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
felixcat 2/25/2025 4:56:02 AM (No. 1903334)
Couple of things: OPM - never dealt directly with ANY federal employee. Your department or agency HR dealt directly with their respective employees which is why the HR@OPM.GOV email was a surprise to everyone. 30 years of federal service and I never had any contact with OPM. I find it interesting and disappointing that Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, and all the other intel agencies heads and State are exempting their employees from replying to the 5 Accomplishments email because their work is so sensitive. Sorry, but not everyone in the FBI, State, ODNI, etc is working on classified or sensitive matters. There are many, if not most bureaus within State that never deal with anything classified or sensitive. So the very agencies that epitomize the Deep State are exempted. There were and are federal employees who did and do support Trump and know where a lot of the waste is located because we've seen it over the decades, report it and nothing would happen. So this lumping all off us as sitting around at home eating bons bons is insulting. You don't kill the patient to save it from the cancerous tumor within it. All Trump should have done to all the confirmed Secretaries, agency heads, etc is direct them to cut your workforce by X percent and let them and their HR identify the positions to be cut. That's how it has been done in the past. Thirty years of good and faithful service serving the citizens, many many time in areas that I wasn't even responsible for and to be lumped in with the likes of those who worked for USAID is really insulting. Good luck Kash as you're going to find out real soon how precious all those agents are that you are so eager now to protect: Come after me and leave my agents alone.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
chumley 2/25/2025 4:57:04 AM (No. 1903335)
Back in my civil service days I could have written such an email every hour. Where I would have a problem is with the request itself. I had a boss once that ordered a complete inventory of every single tool all of us had, right down to broken screwdrivers, with locations. I'd spent over a decade gathering up tools, and my issued tools were just a small part of it. There were also found tools, ones I'd inherited from people who retired and from contractors, and ones I brought in from home. Most didnt officially exist. His goal was to get a database where he could rob us to give to new employees.
After resisting for months, I recorded my issued tools and hid the rest. When I retired I gave them to a young guy who was coming up and would use them and appreciate them.
Don't mess with a guy's tools.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
felixcat 2/25/2025 5:00:50 AM (No. 1903336)
Oh - and how about Musk going after all the fraud, waste and abuse in Congress?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
cgood 2/25/2025 7:15:07 AM (No. 1903383)
Looking like the gang that can’t shoot straight. The components of this administration need to be on the same page. The fact that they are not looks very bad. Trump is responsible for ensuring everyone is onboard.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bpl40 2/25/2025 7:55:00 AM (No. 1903407)
A relative who works in a sensitive area of the Federal Government said the main concern in his department was that this kind of memo cannot contain sensitive and secret information. On the other hand completing the five points without addressing them could distort the employee’s report and give a wrong impression .. IMO, even though they are doing good work Musk’s people are not fully experienced in such procedures. All private business rules cannot be applied esp where security, intelligence and diplomacy is involved.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
anniebc 2/25/2025 8:10:37 AM (No. 1903415)
This is looking a bit messy. Trump needs to stop kid gloving government workers. When you steal with spoiled children, you have to deal tough with them, or they will never learn. NYP, did Elon warn them or tease them? I'm confused.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 2/25/2025 9:38:38 AM (No. 1903455)
Reply to #5:
Thank you for your service, and I applaud all Federal employees who are just doing their jobs, and without any partisan hackerly.
However, if I understand your suggestion (#5, above), you've proposed that Trump should dismantle the Deep State by allowing existing Deep State fanatics, imbedded in middle management, to purge any remaining loyalists to Trump's cause?
Does that really make sense to you? Because if it does, you are among those who should be (or should have been) purged.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
earlybird 2/25/2025 9:50:06 AM (No. 1903463)
I was surprised to see some replying that they thought this was absurd and too much to ask. Five "bullet points" listing what one did over the last five work days? Seriously? How could snyone not fulfill this very simple task in a atter of minutes. Unless they didn't work.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
earlybird 2/25/2025 9:51:43 AM (No. 1903466)
DOGE took over OPM.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
earlybird 2/25/2025 10:01:01 AM (No. 1903473)
Lots of wobbling. Re sensitive projects, how many - percentage - of these employees do any believe work on "secuirity sensitive" projects - from home? (unlikely) At all? If they do why would they not say "Worked on sensitive project" as one of their bullet points?
The inability to figure out ways to respond is almost as troubling as their resistance.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 2/25/2025 10:14:08 AM (No. 1903488)
“Please do not send any classified information, links or attachments.”
What part of that statement is difficult to understand and do?
If hardworking taxpayers are accountable for the pay they earn, and the amount they send to the government, why shouldn’t the government workers be accountable for the pay sent to them from the earnings of taxpayers.
Answering five simple questions about the amount of work accomplished on five work days is not a difficult thing to do, and should not compromise security. In fact, security can be compromised by not being accountable.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
earlybird 2/25/2025 10:50:29 AM (No. 1903510)
If I could, I'd give 20 likes to #15. There is simply no excuse for jot fulfilling this simple request. I was a a civil servant once, working at a USMC supply depot. Our department was responsible for keeping an active inventory of every piece ofall equipment - from ordinary pencil shafrpeners to heavy ,military equipment. Our "memorandum receipts" kept track of the movement and present location of everything on the base. When the 10 year department manager had to take her maternity leave, sjhe selected me to take her place for tjhat period, saying I was the one she most trusted. I had breen there less than a year. Others had been there longer than the manager. but were quintessential civil servants, putting in their time. I was 18.
Whether in ivil service or the private sector, when the boss asks you to give a status freport on yoirself, yoiu pull up your socks and do it. If it is an effort, it should give you pause.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 2/25/2025 11:34:44 AM (No. 1903538)
I have to send a report every week to my Manager. They then use that to report to their boss and up the chain. How else can management manage? Sounds like many of the manager's are expendable.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/25/2025 12:45:33 PM (No. 1903585)
I worked in Civil Service for the Air Force and I can say without reservation that 60% of my Co Workers didn't do anything but go to meetings and express opinions on subjects they had NO Knowledge of. I called them PMG's...Professional Meeting Goers.
ps. I worked on high value contracts.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Geoman 2/25/2025 1:25:58 PM (No. 1903611)
It wouldn't surprise me if a majority of those who respond, will cut and paste bullet points of their job descriptions, a form of non-responsive response. Many federal contractor proposals, but all too few overall, are deemed non-responsive because the contractor simply restated key elements of the government's Statement of Work, rather than detail how they plan to do the work. Lack of specificity, by either the government or the contractor often results in large change orders down the road.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 2/25/2025 1:27:51 PM (No. 1903612)
Calm down #1. The request is to see if they are actually reading their emails "working" from home.
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