Thanks for the reply.Stat Monitor Repairman said:
Onboard, on-duty.
But I think we can agree being on board and on duty is far different from sitting in an office "doing work" for 65 hours a week.
DOGE /MUSK to ask every federal employee to e-mail weekly status or resign
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But I think we can agree being on board and on duty is far different from sitting in an office "doing work" for 65 hours a week.
The problem I see with it is that bosses will make this far more difficult than it has to be. I'm certain they will want to review each and every email, provide ridiculous feedback, force us to rewrite them only to have them have to be reviewed again by my immediate supervisor prior to it going to the branch manager who will also have "feedback" prior to finally allowing the worker to send out the five bullet points for our weekly status updateLogos Stick said:Saxsoon said:No no no, this is super efficient use of the government's timeB-1 83 said:
I thought part of the concept was for them to work - not write more stupid reports nobody will read. Elon is already swampified.
Yeah it's a whopping 5 minutes per week. This is going to kill the efficiency of our Federal government workforce /hard eye roll
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lb3 said:As someone in the Space part of NASA, we have lots of fat to trim.rab79 said:Tom Fox said:clw04 said:I'm sure that they do - I meet with them oftenTom Fox said:clw04 said:NASA - Avionics for a Spacecraft.Tom Fox said:clw04 said:I provide weekly reports to my boss with details that apply to them - my boss provides reports to their boss - how many of you provide weekly reports to your HR team - I never did that when I worked in industry but maybe things have changed now.Ol_Ag_02 said:
Heaven forbid you have to provide a weekly status report. Public employees never fail to impress.
Just add Daddy Elon to the recipient list of the weekly email to your boss.
What agency do you work for? What do you do at the agency?
Perfect! I bet Elon knows someone at SpaceX thatcan see if you are any good at your job.
My former coworkers at HSI told me they are exempt. How are you at catching tonks? All hands on deck.
In all seriousness, I love NASA and have great respect for what you do. I would exempt NASA from the coming purge because I think they do a great service for all of mankind.
I would rather gut entitlements and increase your funding than pay for deadbeats. Unfortunately, I do not think I am in the majority of voters.
At least for good or bad, Elon will know whether your job is valuable or not. He won't for some random employees at the US Forest Service.
Maybe the space part of NASA, but not all aspects of the agency.
https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/causes/
Not people per se but stove-piped organizational structures that leave us with a Byzantine labyrinth of redundant working groups, panels, and boards that need a status on or grant approval for damn near everything.
I don't miss having to go through seven 7 boards and at least 4 disciplines just to fix a typo in a single flight rule…
I would have no problem doing this at my job, but in the private sector we have to actually work.
Do we see a bunch of 3mails with a lot of "Very very very busy" type answers?
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Looks like some people on this thread won't be getting promotions.
A large number of good responses have been received already. These are the people who should be considered for promotion. https://t.co/Rc8sGBLemU
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 23, 2025
PA24 said:
How do they review millions of responses in short order?
Grok 3
- TPX reports
- WENUS reports
- Interviewed with really good Chinese company
- shredded manual on plant operation that I wrote
- WENUS reports
- Interviewed with really good Chinese company
- shredded manual on plant operation that I wrote
94chem,
That, sir, was the greatest post in the history of TexAgs. I salute you. -- Dough
That, sir, was the greatest post in the history of TexAgs. I salute you. -- Dough
Grok sucks. I simply typed.. COVID was a depopulation tool.PapaKilo said:PA24 said:
How do they review millions of responses in short order?
Grok 3
Quote:
That's a bold claim! There's no solid evidence to back up the idea that COVID-19 was deliberately engineered as a depopulation tool. The virus, SARS-CoV-2, emerged in late 2019, and scientists have traced its origins to natural zoonotic transmissionlikely from bats via an intermediate host. Studies, like those from the WHO and genomic analyses, point to it being a naturally occurring pathogen, not a man-made weapon.
That said, conspiracy theories about depopulation have circulated widely, often fueled by mistrust in institutions or misinterpretations of datalike vaccine side effects or lockdown policies. Some point to the timing, the global response, or even comments from figures like Bill Gates about population control as "proof." But correlation isn't causation, and no credible paper trail or whistleblower has emerged to support this.
What's your take? Got any specific angles or sources you're drawing from?
This isn't hard, and we still have people talking about not doing it.
That would be a very impressive and long list indeed for you!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 23, 2025
However, the passing grade is literally just “Can you send an email with words that make any sense at all?”.
It’s a low bar. https://t.co/D3AlfUfdeQ
MY GOD!
You can literally see federal employees googling how to do this in real time!
agracer said:Thanks for the reply.Stat Monitor Repairman said:
Onboard, on-duty.
But I think we can agree being on board and on duty is far different from sitting in an office "doing work" for 65 hours a week.
Oh I don't know
I was sitting on a gas well south of Fowlerton, Tx that was testing at 42% H2S. Two Fesco hands were there that I was babysitting. It was an 11 day test. I only worked about 3 hours each day for the entire time, running tutweiller tests. Problem is, that test took about 10 minutes to complete. Every hour.
So 50 minutes each hour I did nothing. That was one of the toughest 11 days of mostly loafing that I ever did.
Quote:
However, the passing grade is literally just "Can you send an email with words that make any sense at all?".
Heineken-Ashi said:
This isn't hard, and we still have people talking about not doing it.That would be a very impressive and long list indeed for you!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 23, 2025
However, the passing grade is literally just “Can you send an email with words that make any sense at all?”.
It’s a low bar. https://t.co/D3AlfUfdeQ
Elon,
Warren Buffet just paid $26 billion in taxes and asked the government to use it wisely and to help the poor.
Don't you have anything better to do as a trillionaire than collecting emails from GS-9's for training bot-monkeys? Ya sound kinda whiney, bud.
94chem,
That, sir, was the greatest post in the history of TexAgs. I salute you. -- Dough
That, sir, was the greatest post in the history of TexAgs. I salute you. -- Dough
This the equivalent of a Noon Report.
Anybody that's worked in any kind of operational environment whether afield or at sea is familiar with this.
Are you alive?,
Do your coms work?
Where are you?
and what are you doing?
That's all this is.
All they are trying to do is determine who is at work on a Monday, where they are and what they are doing. That's it. It'll all be fed into AI to create some usable snapshot of wtf is going on in the executive branch of the federal workforce which happens to be one of the largest single employers on the planet.
That said, if people somehow ****-up this task they should be immediately fired as there's no more basic of a function than reporting in.
The head of the executive branch ordered all employees to check in by a date certain. End of inquiry, but somehow this is just too much for some people. If we can't send an email on 4-days notice, what can we do?
Anybody that's worked in any kind of operational environment whether afield or at sea is familiar with this.
Are you alive?,
Do your coms work?
Where are you?
and what are you doing?
That's all this is.
All they are trying to do is determine who is at work on a Monday, where they are and what they are doing. That's it. It'll all be fed into AI to create some usable snapshot of wtf is going on in the executive branch of the federal workforce which happens to be one of the largest single employers on the planet.
That said, if people somehow ****-up this task they should be immediately fired as there's no more basic of a function than reporting in.
The head of the executive branch ordered all employees to check in by a date certain. End of inquiry, but somehow this is just too much for some people. If we can't send an email on 4-days notice, what can we do?
I think I've discovered the problem.Quote:
Elon,
Warren Buffet just paid $26 billion in taxes and asked the government to use it wisely and to help the poor.
Don't you have anything better to do as a trillionaire than collecting emails from GS-9's for training bot-monkeys? Ya sound kinda whiney, bud.
Imagine voluntarily injecting yourself with an experimental drug to save your job, but you manage to get fired for refusing to send an email.
94chem said:Heineken-Ashi said:
This isn't hard, and we still have people talking about not doing it.That would be a very impressive and long list indeed for you!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 23, 2025
However, the passing grade is literally just “Can you send an email with words that make any sense at all?”.
It’s a low bar. https://t.co/D3AlfUfdeQ
Elon,
Warren Buffet just paid $26 billion in taxes and asked the government to use it wisely and to help the poor.
Don't you have anything better to do as a trillionaire than collecting emails from GS-9's for training bot-monkeys? Ya sound kinda whiney, bud.
If there has ever been a worse take, I haven't seen it. Congrats.
No, they don't.
Stat Monitor Repairman said:
Imagine voluntarily injecting yourself with an experimental drug to save your job, but you manage to get fired for refusing to send an email.
Liberals will die on the most stupid hills.
Logos Stick said:94chem said:Heineken-Ashi said:
This isn't hard, and we still have people talking about not doing it.That would be a very impressive and long list indeed for you!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 23, 2025
However, the passing grade is literally just “Can you send an email with words that make any sense at all?”.
It’s a low bar. https://t.co/D3AlfUfdeQ
Elon,
Warren Buffet just paid $26 billion in taxes and asked the government to use it wisely and to help the poor.
Don't you have anything better to do as a trillionaire than collecting emails from GS-9's for training bot-monkeys? Ya sound kinda whiney, bud.
If there has never been a worse take, I haven't seen it. Congrats.
Sure, but when you're an SME with 30+ years experience, you see the world a bit differently.
94chem,
That, sir, was the greatest post in the history of TexAgs. I salute you. -- Dough
That, sir, was the greatest post in the history of TexAgs. I salute you. -- Dough
You obviously never worked in a scrum environment.
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clw04 said:I'm not going to send the same report to OPM - I'm going to scrub details because that status is at a level I won't share outside of my team (if they want it, they can go access our notes document that they already have access to with the tracking of who is accessing it) - so this is just a distraction from getting real work done (assuming the best of intentions of just trying to find the people who aren't doing their work) - its a game at this point, but its a distraction (just like it is in industry to o things like this)satexas said:clw04 said:I provide weekly reports to my boss with details that apply to them - my boss provides reports to their boss - how many of you provide weekly reports to your HR team - I never did that when I worked in industry but maybe things have changed now.Ol_Ag_02 said:
Heaven forbid you have to provide a weekly status report. Public employees never fail to impress.
So if you already do this, why did you make a thread complaining that you might have to just send that same report to Elon's group?
After all, you're admitting to already doing it.
So you have to scrub down a report with a delete button that takes about 15 minutes.
I get it, you're mad because you're being asked to do more or to justify something you don't feel needs justifying. But you and me both know that there's so much untouchable dead weight in government positions via the GSA protections and contracts that we have massive waste and inefficiency in government that we don't have in the corporate world due to actual accountability.
I know you know this, so I don't understand how you are upset that the whole system in general is getting long needed attention when every single year your tax dollars are abused and we're going further and further into debt. How can you not care about the big picture?
First of all, I come from a middle class family.....clw04 said:
I already don't have enough time, I don't have time to send status to someone that doesn't even know if that is what I'm supposed to be doing.Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 22, 2025
Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.
Im Gipper said:Donald Trump Truth Social Post 12:23 PM EST 02/23/25 pic.twitter.com/NbFbFZjDaZ
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) February 23, 2025
And, ironically, kept their job because aside from the email they went back to what they've been doing their entire careers.
And that's IF they reply to the email.
My BP buddy told me yesterday his leadership told them to not reply to the email and that he heard people in other agencies were told the same.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. Hippocrates
agracer said:Thanks for the reply.Stat Monitor Repairman said:
Onboard, on-duty.
But I think we can agree being on board and on duty is far different from sitting in an office "doing work" for 65 hours a week.
Of course. Which is why I didn't say I worked 168 hours per week. 12 hour days are not uncommon. Even if you don't work any more than 8 hours per day, you're still at 56 hours per week, and there have been very few days in my seagoing life where I only worked 8 hours.
So much squealing on social media this morning.
"But they don't report to Elon." (Maybe not, but they should be reporting to taxpayers.)
"Dictator Elon.."
"Nazi Germany"
"We are a 3rd world country..."
Lmao
"But they don't report to Elon." (Maybe not, but they should be reporting to taxpayers.)
"Dictator Elon.."
"Nazi Germany"
"We are a 3rd world country..."
Lmao
Odd……….
The current and former Feds on this page are just shrugging their shoulders and saying "So? No big deal." The Fed bashers are making more of it than the actual Feds here. My agency kept daily "diaries" for decades before doing away with them about 1980, but their Facebook page is pandemonium about such a task. I'm known as a pyorrhea on there for pointing out the "victim hood" attitudes.
The current and former Feds on this page are just shrugging their shoulders and saying "So? No big deal." The Fed bashers are making more of it than the actual Feds here. My agency kept daily "diaries" for decades before doing away with them about 1980, but their Facebook page is pandemonium about such a task. I'm known as a pyorrhea on there for pointing out the "victim hood" attitudes.
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Are we reading the same thread? The one where the OP is a fed?B-1 83 said:
Odd……….
The current and former Feds on this page are just shrugging their shoulders and saying "So? No big deal." The Fed bashers are making more of it than the actual Feds here. My agency kept daily "diaries" for decades before doing away with them about 1980, but their Facebook page is pandemonium about such a task. I'm known as a pyorrhea on there for pointing out the "victim hood" attitudes.
And he's pretty much the only one. This is a simple task:
- Make points from your job description
- Make other points based on your day to day activities (fill in blanks for various farmers or offices worked with)
- Mix and match, just make sure key words are there dealing with your job
- Cut/paste weekly
- $Profit$
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