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| DOGE will use AI to assess the responses from federal
| workers who were told to justify their jobs via email
| ...
<https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/federal-workers-agencies-push-back- >elon-musks-email-ultimatum-rcna193439>
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| Trump administration tells agencies they can ignore Musk
| order on email reply
| ...
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/24/musk-email-government- >confusion/>
--bks
It appears that the mental defective autistic mongoloid was lying from the begining. Autistic mongoloids cannot be trusted. He probably raped his mother. They all do.
Elon Musk admits email to government workers was a ruse
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Elon Musk said that blanket emails sent to federal employees asking for a response about their weekly accomplishments or risk termination was a test
to see if they “had a pulse.”
The tech billionaire, tasked by President Donald Trump with slashing bureaucracy and federal spending through his Department of Government Efficiency, wrote on his X platform Friday that all government staff would receive an email requesting specifics of what they had achieved last week.
Workers reportedly received the email Saturday afternoon from the Office of Personnel Management with the subject line “What did you do last week?” The deadline given in which to respond, according to emails reviewed by
Reuters, was 11:59 p.m. EST Monday. Failure to reply would be “taken as resignation,” Musk tweeted.
Less than 24 hours before the deadline, Musk hinted that the emails were
simply a ruse to ensure federal employees were “capable of responding” to
his correspondence.
In the early hours of Monday morning, Musk replied to American venture capitalist Garry Tan on X after he shared a post claiming that DOGE
wouldn’t be capable of reading all of the federal workers’ responses,
calling the initiative “stupid” and “performance art.”
Musk said he was checking whether federal employees had a ‘pulse’ with his sweeping emails asking for a response or risk being terminated
Musk said he was checking whether federal employees had a ‘pulse’ with his sweeping emails asking for a response or risk being terminated (AP)
“Most people don’t understand LLMs have changed the nature of management already, and this will be a bit of a shock to people,” Tan tweeted on
Sunday night, speaking of large language models: a type of machine learning model designed for processing large data sets of text.
Musk responded that LLMs would not be needed for his task.
“This was basically a check to see if the employee had a pulse and was
capable of replying to an email,” Musk said. “This mess will get sorted out this week. Lot of people in for a rude awakening and strong dose of
reality. They don’t get it yet, but they will.”
On Sunday afternoon, Musk also referred to the emails as a “very basic
pulse check.” That evening, Musk added that a response was indicative that employees have “two working neurons.”
As of Saturday night, employees at several agencies — including the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — had received the emails, Reuters reports.
When asked for comment, an OPM spokesperson told The Independent that
“agencies will determine any next steps” after employees respond.
“As part of the Trump Administration's commitment to an efficient and accountable federal workforce, OPM is asking employees to provide a brief summary of what they did last week by the end of Monday, CC’ing their
manager,” the spokesperson said.
Musk, photographed beside President Donald Trump in the Oval Office earlier this month, has faced backlash from senior agency officials over his ‘what
did you do last week?’ emails
Musk, photographed beside President Donald Trump in the Oval Office earlier this month, has faced backlash from senior agency officials over his ‘what
did you do last week?’ emails (AP)
A rift emerged on Sunday evening between Trump’s agency heads and Musk
after leaders at the FBI, Pentagon, State Department, Department of
Homeland Security and Department of Energy instructed staff not to reply to
the OPM’s email.
Some managers, including at the Department of Health and Human Services, instructed workers to comply with the request to send a list of five accomplishments from the past week to a generic government email address,
only to later reverse course. While others simply told their staff to wait until Monday — and not to reply to the note before then.
“EXTREMELY troubling that some parts of government think this is TOO
MUCH!!” Musk tweeted on Sunday. “What is wrong with them??”
Senior officials worked to provide employees guidance on how they should proceed, including freshly confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel urging
employees to “pause responses.”
The emails thrust the Defense Department into chaos over the weekend as
they tried to determine what to tell employees about how to respond,
multiple senior officials told CNN.
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