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His post on X said employees will receive an email “shortly” requesting to “understand what they got done last week.”

All federal government employees will have to share what they’ve been working on in the last week or face dismissal, Elon Musk said Saturday.

Musk posted on X that employees will be receiving an email “shortly” requesting to “understand what they got done last week.” A lack of response, Musk said, “will be taken as a resignation.” It’s unclear what legal authority, if any, Musk is relying on.

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[–] Graphy@lemmy.world 76 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

Tell her to report it as phishing through her security department. Those are the type of emails you're trained to report.

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So if your entire job description is classified, which is pretty common, you're fucked.

This will be even worse than when he used the same strategy on Twitter.

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are unclassified ways to talk about classified information.

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, sounds just like political nonsense, super useful.

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Are you saying it's not useful to be able to talk about your job in vague terms or that this whole order by Musk is bullshit? I can't really tell what you mean here.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This week I [REDACTED] the [REDACTED].

[–] OwlPaste@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

this is insanity... so when will Americans finally implement trumpets desires and kick out this shitty immigrant back to wherever he came from?

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What happens if you don’t respond?

[–] Graphy@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

— Copy of my other comment from this thread

Word on the street is that if you don’t reply you’ll get fired.

My wife just got one and sent me this right after

Posted with her approval ofc