Only one real reason I’m running this story at all, and if you haven’t figured it out by the second or third paragraph…well, I just don’t really know what to tell ya about that.
Elon Musk’s ultimatum email to federal workers sets up power struggle in DC, among top Trump officials
Elon Musk is finding himself locked in a power struggle with top Trump administration officials over an out-of-the-blue email blast to federal workers Saturday demanding that they list their professional accomplishments last week — or risk being fired.Multiple Trump-appointed agency and department heads — including the Department of Defense, State Department and FBI — have instructed their employees to ignore the email despite the billionaire’s public warning that “failure to respond” by 11:59 p.m. Monday “will be taken as a resignation.”
Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has already pushed for sweeping personnel cuts across the government, with the latest move raising concerns that the Tesla CEO intends to make more personnel decisions based on replies to the missive.
“If Elon Musk truly wants to understand what federal workers accomplished over the past week, he should get to know each department and agency, and learn about the jobs he’s trying to cut,” moderate Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) griped on X.
“Our public workforce deserves to be treated with dignity and respect for the unheralded jobs they perform. The absurd weekend email to justify their existence wasn’t it.”
Uh huh. Poor put-upon souls, with all those difficult, demanding “unheralded jobs” they for some mysterious reason don’t seem able to describe, delineate, or even speak about in any way, shape, or form. And now, the entirely obvious video embed.
Heh.
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In my old research group (chemistry) in grad school doing my PhD – then a post-doc with the same prof – we had to prepare a weekly progress report on paper and talk with him for 15 minutes – he had 50 people in his group, graad students and post-docs – so that’s 12.5 hours of meeting per week, plus the weekly hour long subgroup meetings – and over and above that he expected 50 hours of research per week – and most people who actually finished PhDs did far more – I tended to do 60-70 hours per week – and Prof came in on Saturdays and so did we… Five bullet points summarizing weekly activity shouldn’t take more than 15 minutes to make up, probably more like 5 minutes if they’re actually doing anything…
Musk says the emails are to search out posssible fraud:
“In a follow up post, Musk explained that it has become clear that so many workers are so lazy that they are not even checking their emails.
In addition, Musk noted that there is a distinct possibility that many ‘workers’ don’t even exist and that federal paychecks are being siphoned off in a massive fraud scheme.
“In some cases, we believe non-existent people or the identities of dead people are being used to collect paychecks. In other words, there is outright fraud,” Musk explained.”
From:
https://modernity.news/2025/02/24/elon-reveals-the-real-reason-for-his-what-did-you-do-this-week-email/
1. Got in around 10am. Heh, most of life is just showing up. Right?
2. Read Politico
3. Surfed the net for furry pr0n. NTTAWWT
4. Cut back lunch to 2 hours. So rushed! Only got two martinis down.
5. Read Politico again. Stayed late until 4pm. Got caught in rush hour!!!
Rough Wednesday. Took the next 6 days off.
5.
Doubled up on the emoji’s due to the wife laughing out loud 🙂
Fire em all and make them re apply
Should have given him the Penske file.