Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation

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His joy about all this (the emoji replies and memes) is really amazing. These people have 0 empathy. What&#x27;s spectacular is he&#x27;s not even smart enough to pretend to have empathy and somehow managed to outrun any consequences so far (our system is going to need some retooling when all this flames out so white collar justice is a lot faster). What&#x27;s even more amazing and sad is people the people still worship him despite that.

What about people who work on classified programs? Are they supposed to send a description of their work to a non-classified system?<p>Or people who work in the field and aren&#x27;t using email regularly? Do the people who clear trails for the National Parks Service check their email every day?

Even with the recent firings, there are over 2 million full time federal employees. Who&#x27;s going to be reading and evaluating these emails? There is no person, and certainly no algorithm, capable of doing so in any responsible way.

DODGE is that clueless middle manager who thinks they know everything, doesn’t listen to anyone who knows, and will declare victory then inevitably make a run for it before they face the consequences of the own actions.

Serious questions: are the country&#x27;s institutions strong enough to provide for checks and balances against the executive branch as it grows unchecked, in reality? If so, how does that play out? Are the timescales of the checks and balances always receding from a never ending stream of things that need accountability?

Sounds highly illegal. That is only going by the title since I do not use Twitter since Twitter is full of BS since it was bought by a racist.

This is an easy way to get rid of a large percentage of government workers who don’t have a requirement to check email everyday. People out in the field or even people out sick or on vacation, etc.<p>Reading between the lines. Musk thought the government would be like Twitter. However, he is getting increasingly frustrated and didn’t comprehend how large the US government is. So he has to use tactics like this to make a dent. When this doesn’t work, he’ll use a tactic like, “Everyone is fired. If you want your job back then you need to apply again.”<p>He thought he could fix everything overnight and it’s turning out to be a lot of work. He’s getting bored because it’s too much work. Now he is getting desperate and uses tactics like this.

He’s just <i>such</i> a colossal prick. And I don’t mean the policy, although that is dumb. Forget about the policy for a second. Do you see leaders at major corporations posting their new rules for employees publicly on social media? No, that’s done internally. Why do it publicly then? You could just email everyone who works there. Because it’s performance. Because it’s distraction. Because it presents him in a way he likes. None of that is how real leaders operate. This is why people dislike him so much. There have always been horrible managers. Musk is just so publicly, hyperactively odious.

I&#x27;m pretty sure this is not how resignations work, even in Common Law…

Out of curiosity, is this e-mail also going to FAA air traffic controls? If they don&#x27;t respond, will someone escort them out of control towers and from the radar screens in regional control centres?<p>How about food inspectors? Will processing plants be unchecked?<p>Border patrol agents? Will border crossing be left unguarded? Will drug inspections stop?

What is preventing someone from just lying? They’re not going to be able to follow up on all of the responses.

I’ve had jobs with both weekly reports and no reports, I’m highly specialized engineering as well as competitive sales roles. The weekly reports were useless. Management already knows what you’re doing, just through meetings. So the weekly reports added nothing extra, except create useless work. So it’s no surprise that someone as useless as Elon Musk would push for something like that.

&gt; all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.<p>&gt; Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.<p>You may not like it, but this will get taught in MBA schools by the MBA kids and they will impose this on the companies they run and start.

That is how the rule of law (and anecdotally the protection of workers rights) ends.

Calvinball government.

Make up some fantastic bullshit that sounds related to your job title. Hell, use ChatGPT to write it, it&#x27;s not like they&#x27;re going to have any humans review tens of thousands of these. They&#x27;re going to feed it to Grok or whatever. Give them the same disdain and disrespect they treat you with, they don&#x27;t deserve anything better.

If this was a private company, how do you think this would go over?<p>Almost anyone afraid of losing their job or without immediate prospects, would reply and stay.<p>Almost anyone with prospects elsewhere would say &quot;fuck this shit&quot;, not reply, and reach out to competing firms for positions.<p>The result? You lose your best performing workers.<p>If that&#x27;s intentional, then Musk is fucking with our government in ways that will be highly detrimental to all of us citizens.<p>If that&#x27;s unintentional, then we have a fucking idiot in charge.<p>Either way, it&#x27;s pretty bad.<p>* excuse the language but I&#x27;m pretty angry

Imagine trying to do absolutely anything with weekly status emails from like 2% of the US working population!<p>I assume this is just a way to find the truest believers and fire the rest.

Why does Musk have the authority to do this? Yeah, I know, DOGE is the new name for the United States Digital Service. Why does that give them the authority to fire government employees in other parts?<p>Trump says Musk has no particular official role. So how does he have the official authority to pull stunts like this?<p>What is the legal basis for all this? Is there even a pretend legal facade for this? Or is it just &quot;screw the law, we&#x27;ll have done 99 other things before a lawsuit on this one comes to trial&quot;?

<i>Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump ’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.<p>Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.</i>

They should take guidance from Musk and respond with a poop emoji.

I can&#x27;t believe what&#x27;s happening to be honest. Any world where Musk doesn&#x27;t end up in jail feels unjust at this point.

The entire affair feels so infantalising, these muppets lied and cheated their way to the top, and somehow we&#x27;re now expected to listen to them? Do what they say?<p>The media just keeps fanning their flame, every day it&#x27;s something new. Goddamn YouTube algorithm tricks from the executive branch. They feed each other.<p>Their ego cannot be satisfied. Their ego is not a national priority. Stop talking about them, stop tweeting, everything they say gets walked back days later, it&#x27;s a soap-opera; meaningless drama.<p>They can&#x27;t invent new laws, stop pretending like they can, stop being fearful of them, just ignore them and watch them wilt. Half of you in the comments are already considering the implementation details of this as if it was a fait accompli.<p>If you desperately need to do something productive, work out how the opposition party has been so catastrophically ineffective for the last generation, and doesn&#x27;t seem to show any signs of changing.

This seems like an ideal way to make anyone competent leave; the only people who will stay for four years of this sort of nonsense are those who are otherwise unemployable.<p>I suspect the next couple of presidencies after Trump will be largely focused on putting the pieces back together (it’s far easier to break institutions than to build them).