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Agencies seek guidance on latest Musk OPM email, with some urging employees to hold off responding (abcnews.go.com)

submitted 2 years ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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Federal agencies, including FEMA, IRS, NOAA, CDC, DOE, and the Pentagon, were surprised by an OPM email, directed by Elon Musk, demanding employees list weekly accomplishments.

Agencies are advising staff to delay responding, pending further guidance. Some, like the FBI, have instructed a "pause." NOAA recommended waiting until Monday for potential clarification.

Musk stated non-compliance would be considered resignation. Agencies are now seeking clarity from Treasury and other departments on how to proceed with the unprecedented request.

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[-] dragontamer@lemmy.world 73 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

To explain how utterly insane this is: the email requires a response by Monday. Elon Musk sent out these emails on Saturday Night.

FBI primarily works on Top Secret missions, meaning they do NOT often read unclassified emails. Department of Energy is largely Top Secret (ie: Nuclear Weapons) projects.
In these Top Secret jobs, it is illegal to say what you've done in an unclassified setting. So it isn't very clear how you're even supposed to write an email on what you've done, as writing such an email is literally illegal.

[-] androidul@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

maybe it’s a trap and he just wants them to reply with it’s classified

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This. Nobody is going to be reading millions of emails. He's probably piping everything to some shitty model.

[-] Joeffect@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

Not him... His goon squad... The idiot does absolutely nothing but run his mouth... Don't give him so much credit

[-] olympicyes@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

He stated he was feeding the emails into AI.

[-] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh, stop trying to make sense of nonsense...

Occam's razor suggests this is simply a "see how many don't respond by the deadline so I can say they resigned and are off the books adding to my already bogus count of cost savings".

Just a schoolyard level ploy...

Come on. 🤷‍♂️

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

If Elon doesn't reply "what?" to this comment he's a sphincter

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago

He sure does seem to be running multiple agencies at the same time. Also, weekly accomplishments? Employees are already supervised, which is the process for verifying that they are doing their jobs. Just another example of how Musk doesn't know how anything works.

What a maroon.

[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is exactly like how Elon asked Twitter employees to print out "last 30 days of your published code for review". It's such a laughably insane way of doing things that only someone with a childs understanding of the world would even think to ask for.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Published code should have already been reviewed before it was published!

Who is going to read all these emails? Nobody, just like that supid code in last 30 days thing. It is a scare tactic for people who don't realize how stupid the request is.

[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What a maroon.

What an ingoranus!

(Yeah I spelled that the way I meant to.)

[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

The virtue signaling while destroying the infrastructure that supports the public is palpable. Palpable, in the sense that I'm having heart palpitations under this current administration.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

He. Has. No. Real. Authority.

[-] MisterCurtis@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

The only acceptable response should have been a collective "fuck you, make me"

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

Don’t acknowledge

[-] Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago

He’s going to be drowning in law suits harassing these agencies. All federal workers have contracts.

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