DOGE /MUSK to ask every federal employee to e-mail weekly status or resign

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Ellis Wyatt said:

People who aren't federal workers aren't my problem. Worthless people who are federal workers are. I can choose not to do business with private companies. I cannot choose not to do business with our incredibly bloated and wasteful federal government.

This woman needs to find another job. She's too immature and unstable to hold it together and follow instructions from management.

Don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel. I spent 25 years in the private sector but decided 5 years ago to work for much less money to treat our nation's Veterans. Glad you think it was a worthwhile choice, lol

From the perspective of a person who spent most of their working life in the private sector but now works for the Federal Government, I can tell you Elon's request is peak gubment bureaucracy. Get 2.3 million people to issue reports that go nowhere, to be read by nobody is something only a 30 year bureaucrat could do, I would think. My first week working for the gubment I had to take a 30 minute video training module, with a post test that I had to pass, on the correct way to climb stairs and ladders. I thought that was peak idiocy, but this is AOC/Maxine Waters level dumb.
I don't believe anyone, even on this board, has an objection to Federal Employees like you. In fact most if not all, would commend you for your efforts, I do.
Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves and sheep.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787
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Ellis Wyatt said:

slaughtr said:

Ellis Wyatt said:

The worthless ones are the ones throwing a fit over having to send an email. The worthless ones are the ones who refuse to do something because Donald Trump is now their president. The worthless ones are the ones who refuse to work in the office because "they don't wanna." The worthless ones are those who believe the jobs belong to them and their agency "is independent." The worthless ones are those who have exposed themselves through the change in administration.

Sounds like most of the people I worked for in the private sector.
OK. My money isn't paying for a job in the private sector. My money is paying for jobs in the public sector. If I don't like something in the private space, I don't do business with that company. I don't have that choice with the government I am funding.

The work that I do is billed by the government to insurance companies. And since I do the coding, I can tell you I bill far more than my Federal salary. Next argument.
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richardag said:

slaughtr said:

Ellis Wyatt said:

People who aren't federal workers aren't my problem. Worthless people who are federal workers are. I can choose not to do business with private companies. I cannot choose not to do business with our incredibly bloated and wasteful federal government.

This woman needs to find another job. She's too immature and unstable to hold it together and follow instructions from management.

Don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel. I spent 25 years in the private sector but decided 5 years ago to work for much less money to treat our nation's Veterans. Glad you think it was a worthwhile choice, lol

From the perspective of a person who spent most of their working life in the private sector but now works for the Federal Government, I can tell you Elon's request is peak gubment bureaucracy. Get 2.3 million people to issue reports that go nowhere, to be read by nobody is something only a 30 year bureaucrat could do, I would think. My first week working for the gubment I had to take a 30 minute video training module, with a post test that I had to pass, on the correct way to climb stairs and ladders. I thought that was peak idiocy, but this is AOC/Maxine Waters level dumb.
I don't believe anyone, even on this board, has an objection to Federal Employees like you. In fact most if not all, would commend you for your efforts, I do.

I appreciate that, but you haven't read the comments on this board.
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NSFW language. But it reflects my feelings regarding Elon's stunt.
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Ellis Wyatt said:


OK. My money isn't paying for a job in the private sector. My money is paying for jobs in the public sector. If I don't like something in the private space, I don't do business with that company. I don't have that choice with the government I am funding.

The work that I do is billed by the government to insurance companies. And since I do the coding, I can tell you I bill far more than my Federal salary. Next argument.
Nowhere have I attacked people who are doing their legitimate jobs.

hth
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Bird Poo said:

slaughtr said:

Ellis Wyatt said:

People who aren't federal workers aren't my problem. Worthless people who are federal workers are. I can choose not to do business with private companies. I cannot choose not to do business with our incredibly bloated and wasteful federal government.

This woman needs to find another job. She's too immature and unstable to hold it together and follow instructions from management.

Don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel. I spent 25 years in the private sector but decided 5 years ago to work for much less money to treat our nation's Veterans. Glad you think it was a worthwhile choice, lol

From the perspective of a person who spent most of their working life in the private sector but now works for the Federal Government, I can tell you Elon's request is peak gubment bureaucracy. Get 2.3 million people to issue reports that go nowhere, to be read by nobody is something only a 30 year bureaucrat could do, I would think. My first week working for the gubment I had to take a 30 minute video training module, with a post test that I had to pass, on the correct way to climb stairs and ladders. I thought that was peak idiocy, but this is AOC/Maxine Waters level dumb.
Finding out if people actually check their email and are doing their job is dumb? OK. How would you go about determining if 2 million people exist and are doing the job we pay them to do.

The fact that Trump has to do this to verify that people getting paid are in fact real should tell you how bloated and wasteful the system has become.

Congrats on helping veterans. But that doesn't make you special. I hope they immediately fire everyone that doesn't respond. No excuses.

The vast majority of Federal workers are union protected. We had a guy in my department threaten to punch his supervisor in the face during a meeting. The union argued that the fact he didn't punch him was proof of his restraint so there were no consequences. You think they are gonna get away with firing canteen cooks because they didn't explain how they flipped burgers to a nonexistent email recipient?
We had a similar event. Threathen Kill his boss. Got a year on the beech, and they were not able to fire him. He got his job back, and about a year later he was promoted. Oddly enough, he turned out to be a really good supervisor.
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agAngeldad said:

slaughtr said:

Bird Poo said:

slaughtr said:

Ellis Wyatt said:

People who aren't federal workers aren't my problem. Worthless people who are federal workers are. I can choose not to do business with private companies. I cannot choose not to do business with our incredibly bloated and wasteful federal government.

This woman needs to find another job. She's too immature and unstable to hold it together and follow instructions from management.

Don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel. I spent 25 years in the private sector but decided 5 years ago to work for much less money to treat our nation's Veterans. Glad you think it was a worthwhile choice, lol

From the perspective of a person who spent most of their working life in the private sector but now works for the Federal Government, I can tell you Elon's request is peak gubment bureaucracy. Get 2.3 million people to issue reports that go nowhere, to be read by nobody is something only a 30 year bureaucrat could do, I would think. My first week working for the gubment I had to take a 30 minute video training module, with a post test that I had to pass, on the correct way to climb stairs and ladders. I thought that was peak idiocy, but this is AOC/Maxine Waters level dumb.
Finding out if people actually check their email and are doing their job is dumb? OK. How would you go about determining if 2 million people exist and are doing the job we pay them to do.

The fact that Trump has to do this to verify that people getting paid are in fact real should tell you how bloated and wasteful the system has become.

Congrats on helping veterans. But that doesn't make you special. I hope they immediately fire everyone that doesn't respond. No excuses.

The vast majority of Federal workers are union protected. We had a guy in my department threaten to punch his supervisor in the face during a meeting. The union argued that the fact he didn't punch him was proof of his restraint so there were no consequences. You think they are gonna get away with firing canteen cooks because they didn't explain how they flipped burgers to a nonexistent email recipient?
We had a similar event. Threathen Kill his boss. Got a year on the beech, and they were not able to fire him. He got his job back, and about a year later he was promoted. Oddly enough, he turned out to be a really good supervisor.
Maybe his boss needed killin'...
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Second round of weekly Federal "TPS" reports in the books. As someone who supervises 60 people, I can say the most articulate, comprehensive, though provoking, profound and complete responses I was copied on were uniformly from the people I would never hire again in a million years given the opportunity. I hope Elon's AI has a strong BS meter. Congrats on the accomplishment!
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They will eventually find a scammer using this method. But it will be a very inefficient method to go about it because of the # of false positives.
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Second round of weekly Federal "TPS" reports in the books. As someone who supervises 60 people, I can say the most articulate, comprehensive, though provoking, profound and complete responses I was copied on were uniformly from the people I would never hire again in a million years given the opportunity. I hope Elon's AI has a strong BS meter. Congrats on the accomplishment!


Chat GPT can do some work.
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What did you accomplish in the prior week?

I wrote this report.
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agAngeldad said:

slaughtr said:

Second round of weekly Federal "TPS" reports in the books. As someone who supervises 60 people, I can say the most articulate, comprehensive, though provoking, profound and complete responses I was copied on were uniformly from the people I would never hire again in a million years given the opportunity. I hope Elon's AI has a strong BS meter. Congrats on the accomplishment!


Chat GPT can do some work.

Speaking of help from AI. For those interested in the math….
2.3 million employees taking 5 minutes to send an email each week is 120 million emails a year and a rough cost of 400 million dollars in work time at the average federal workers salary.

Way to go, Johnny efficiency.
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slaughtr said:

agAngeldad said:

slaughtr said:

Second round of weekly Federal "TPS" reports in the books. As someone who supervises 60 people, I can say the most articulate, comprehensive, though provoking, profound and complete responses I was copied on were uniformly from the people I would never hire again in a million years given the opportunity. I hope Elon's AI has a strong BS meter. Congrats on the accomplishment!


Chat GPT can do some work.

Speaking of help from AI. For those interested in the math….
2.3 million employees taking 5 minutes to send an email each week is 120 million emails a year and a rough cost of 400 million dollars in work time at the average federal workers salary.

Way to go, Johnny efficiency.


Do the math when that 2.3M is down to 700k.

All that bloat gone!
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Gilligan said:

slaughtr said:

agAngeldad said:

slaughtr said:

Second round of weekly Federal "TPS" reports in the books. As someone who supervises 60 people, I can say the most articulate, comprehensive, though provoking, profound and complete responses I was copied on were uniformly from the people I would never hire again in a million years given the opportunity. I hope Elon's AI has a strong BS meter. Congrats on the accomplishment!


Chat GPT can do some work.

Speaking of help from AI. For those interested in the math….
2.3 million employees taking 5 minutes to send an email each week is 120 million emails a year and a rough cost of 400 million dollars in work time at the average federal workers salary.

Way to go, Johnny efficiency.


Do the math when that 2.3M is down to 700k.

All that bloat gone!

80% of those workers are union protected. Good luck getting them fired over a non response to an email, lol. .
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slaughtr said:

Gilligan said:

slaughtr said:

agAngeldad said:

slaughtr said:

Second round of weekly Federal "TPS" reports in the books. As someone who supervises 60 people, I can say the most articulate, comprehensive, though provoking, profound and complete responses I was copied on were uniformly from the people I would never hire again in a million years given the opportunity. I hope Elon's AI has a strong BS meter. Congrats on the accomplishment!


Chat GPT can do some work.

Speaking of help from AI. For those interested in the math….
2.3 million employees taking 5 minutes to send an email each week is 120 million emails a year and a rough cost of 400 million dollars in work time at the average federal workers salary.

Way to go, Johnny efficiency.


Do the math when that 2.3M is down to 700k.

All that bloat gone!

80% of those workers are union protected. Good luck getting them fired over a non response to an email, lol. .
If ever there were unions that needed busting. It is government worker unions
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AgBQ-00 said:

slaughtr said:

Gilligan said:

slaughtr said:

agAngeldad said:

slaughtr said:

Second round of weekly Federal "TPS" reports in the books. As someone who supervises 60 people, I can say the most articulate, comprehensive, though provoking, profound and complete responses I was copied on were uniformly from the people I would never hire again in a million years given the opportunity. I hope Elon's AI has a strong BS meter. Congrats on the accomplishment!


Chat GPT can do some work.

Speaking of help from AI. For those interested in the math….
2.3 million employees taking 5 minutes to send an email each week is 120 million emails a year and a rough cost of 400 million dollars in work time at the average federal workers salary.

Way to go, Johnny efficiency.


Do the math when that 2.3M is down to 700k.

All that bloat gone!

80% of those workers are union protected. Good luck getting them fired over a non response to an email, lol. .
If ever there were unions that needed busting. It is government worker unions
Can't say I disagree, but it's not going to happen over an email to nowhere.
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AgBQ-00 said:

slaughtr said:

Gilligan said:

slaughtr said:

agAngeldad said:

slaughtr said:

Second round of weekly Federal "TPS" reports in the books. As someone who supervises 60 people, I can say the most articulate, comprehensive, though provoking, profound and complete responses I was copied on were uniformly from the people I would never hire again in a million years given the opportunity. I hope Elon's AI has a strong BS meter. Congrats on the accomplishment!


Chat GPT can do some work.

Speaking of help from AI. For those interested in the math….
2.3 million employees taking 5 minutes to send an email each week is 120 million emails a year and a rough cost of 400 million dollars in work time at the average federal workers salary.

Way to go, Johnny efficiency.


Do the math when that 2.3M is down to 700k.

All that bloat gone!

80% of those workers are union protected. Good luck getting them fired over a non response to an email, lol. .
If ever there were unions that needed busting. It is government worker unions
In many ways its objectionable that they even exist. They are at the taxpayer's dime. Arguably that is who should have the say.
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Is this the kind of person you would employ….me, never. Many fed employees are just like this one.
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Stat Monitor Repairman said:


These people would crumble in an hour in my role.
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slaughtr said:

agAngeldad said:

slaughtr said:

Second round of weekly Federal "TPS" reports in the books. As someone who supervises 60 people, I can say the most articulate, comprehensive, though provoking, profound and complete responses I was copied on were uniformly from the people I would never hire again in a million years given the opportunity. I hope Elon's AI has a strong BS meter. Congrats on the accomplishment!


Chat GPT can do some work.

Speaking of help from AI. For those interested in the math….
2.3 million employees taking 5 minutes to send an email each week is 120 million emails a year and a rough cost of 400 million dollars in work time at the average federal workers salary.

Way to go, Johnny efficiency.
Now fire half of the 2.3 million and re-calculate. Now take the total salaries of the worthless people fired and let us know our yearly savings after the expenditure of 400 million
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Quote:

Speaking of help from AI. For those interested in the math….
2.3 million employees taking 5 minutes to send an email each week is 120 million emails a year and a rough cost of 400 million dollars in work time at the average federal workers salary.

Way to go, Johnny efficiency.

Stupid argument since they're salaried employees. That 5 minutes they spent composing the email is 5 minutes less time spent doing non-work related stupid crap like texting about weird sexual fetishes. So Elon is actually saving tax payers $400M of waste.
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akm91 said:

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Speaking of help from AI. For those interested in the math….
2.3 million employees taking 5 minutes to send an email each week is 120 million emails a year and a rough cost of 400 million dollars in work time at the average federal workers salary.

Way to go, Johnny efficiency.

Stupid argument since they're salaried employees. That 5 minutes they spent composing the email is 5 minutes less time spent doing non-work related stupid crap like texting about weird sexual fetishes. So Elon is actually saving tax payers $400M of waste.
The vast majority are not salaried employees. TexAgs posters have this idea that all 2.3 million federal employees are bureaucrats in DC. That's just not true. For every bureaucrat, there are 10 hourly unionized federal workers. They take out the trash. They recycle the cardboard boxes on the loading dock. They clean bed pans and draw blood at VA's. They flip burgers in canteens and act as security in Federal buildings. And they work all over the country, from Peoria to Walla Walla.

And all of them were asked to send an email that nobody will ever read about the bed pans they washed and the burgers they flipped, lol.
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2023NCAggies said:

slaughtr said:

agAngeldad said:

slaughtr said:

Second round of weekly Federal "TPS" reports in the books. As someone who supervises 60 people, I can say the most articulate, comprehensive, though provoking, profound and complete responses I was copied on were uniformly from the people I would never hire again in a million years given the opportunity. I hope Elon's AI has a strong BS meter. Congrats on the accomplishment!


Chat GPT can do some work.

Speaking of help from AI. For those interested in the math….
2.3 million employees taking 5 minutes to send an email each week is 120 million emails a year and a rough cost of 400 million dollars in work time at the average federal workers salary.

Way to go, Johnny efficiency.
Now fire half of the 2.3 million and re-calculate. Now take the total salaries of the worthless people fired and let us know our yearly savings after the expenditure of 400 million
Which 1/2 would you fire? The phlebotomists or the people who sterilize the surgical instruments? The ICE agents at the border or the security guards at Federal buildings? Just give Trump your list.
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slaughtr said:

2023NCAggies said:

slaughtr said:

agAngeldad said:

slaughtr said:

Second round of weekly Federal "TPS" reports in the books. As someone who supervises 60 people, I can say the most articulate, comprehensive, though provoking, profound and complete responses I was copied on were uniformly from the people I would never hire again in a million years given the opportunity. I hope Elon's AI has a strong BS meter. Congrats on the accomplishment!


Chat GPT can do some work.

Speaking of help from AI. For those interested in the math….
2.3 million employees taking 5 minutes to send an email each week is 120 million emails a year and a rough cost of 400 million dollars in work time at the average federal workers salary.

Way to go, Johnny efficiency.
Now fire half of the 2.3 million and re-calculate. Now take the total salaries of the worthless people fired and let us know our yearly savings after the expenditure of 400 million
Which 1/2 would you fire? The phlebotomists or the people who sterilize the surgical instruments? The ICE agents at the border or the security guards at Federal buildings? Just give Trump your list.
The half that do not fulfill the simple order weekly. If you have to replace them, then do so with someone that is qualified to do that particular job, oh and are willing to send a simple progress email weekly
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I'm still amazed that a simple, 5 bullet point email is so vexing for gov't stooges.

The weekly status report I issued last week for my project was 15 pages of Word document alone, plus several pages of attachments.

Boo-****ing hoo, cry me a damned river over your bullet points, and if you cannot come up with 5, then your job is worthless and your position should be eliminated.
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It's so crazy, how scared they are, of being held just the slightest itty bit accountable.

Most people could list 5 things they do in 20 seconds. For many, it's the same job function each week, so you're copying and pasting in 3 seconds. The fact that they'd throw such temper tantrums over the most basic requests known to employment, is very telling.

Welcome to the real world, where results matter, and people above you care about what you're doing.
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slaughtr said:

2023NCAggies said:

slaughtr said:

agAngeldad said:

slaughtr said:

Second round of weekly Federal "TPS" reports in the books. As someone who supervises 60 people, I can say the most articulate, comprehensive, though provoking, profound and complete responses I was copied on were uniformly from the people I would never hire again in a million years given the opportunity. I hope Elon's AI has a strong BS meter. Congrats on the accomplishment!


Chat GPT can do some work.

Speaking of help from AI. For those interested in the math….
2.3 million employees taking 5 minutes to send an email each week is 120 million emails a year and a rough cost of 400 million dollars in work time at the average federal workers salary.

Way to go, Johnny efficiency.
Now fire half of the 2.3 million and re-calculate. Now take the total salaries of the worthless people fired and let us know our yearly savings after the expenditure of 400 million
Which 1/2 would you fire? The phlebotomists or the people who sterilize the surgical instruments? The ICE agents at the border or the security guards at Federal buildings? Just give Trump your list.


It seems your contention is that all 2.3 million federal workers are fully utilized? That there are no areas or redundancies that could be addressed?

And these are all federal workers and no subcontractors cleaning out the trash and emptying bedpans? Cause I simply do not believe that to be the case based on direct observation.

And I have run my own business for 15+ years. During that time I have had various stakeholders who asked for updates. Whether a bank or financial backer they sure appreciated me taking time to go over operations, updates, accomplishments, issues, projections, financials, etc usually being a 2-3 page update - done monthly.

But government workers cannot be bothered to send a 5 bullet point email ONCE.

I can certainly provide Trump a list but he already has DOGE working on it, so me doing it would be redundant. Me wasting taxpayer dollars to do the same thing would be a target of DOGE.

They are cutting the redundancies, the fat, the folks not working, the folks refusing to meet their objectives and responsibilities assigned that results in their salaries.

And if it takes $400 million to cut $400 billion then that's a great return on investment.
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$400 million....to send a 30 second email once a week??!!

Good gosh. Imagine how much it'll cost us if they work a whole 40 hours a week?
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flown-the-coop said:

slaughtr said:

2023NCAggies said:

slaughtr said:

agAngeldad said:

slaughtr said:

Second round of weekly Federal "TPS" reports in the books. As someone who supervises 60 people, I can say the most articulate, comprehensive, though provoking, profound and complete responses I was copied on were uniformly from the people I would never hire again in a million years given the opportunity. I hope Elon's AI has a strong BS meter. Congrats on the accomplishment!


Chat GPT can do some work.

Speaking of help from AI. For those interested in the math….
2.3 million employees taking 5 minutes to send an email each week is 120 million emails a year and a rough cost of 400 million dollars in work time at the average federal workers salary.

Way to go, Johnny efficiency.
Now fire half of the 2.3 million and re-calculate. Now take the total salaries of the worthless people fired and let us know our yearly savings after the expenditure of 400 million
Which 1/2 would you fire? The phlebotomists or the people who sterilize the surgical instruments? The ICE agents at the border or the security guards at Federal buildings? Just give Trump your list.


It seems your contention is that all 2.3 million federal workers are fully utilized? That there are no areas or redundancies that could be addressed?

And these are all federal workers and no subcontractors cleaning out the trash and emptying bedpans? Cause I simply do not believe that to be the case based on direct observation.

And I have run my own business for 15+ years. During that time I have had various stakeholders who asked for updates. Whether a bank or financial backer they sure appreciated me taking time to go over operations, updates, accomplishments, issues, projections, financials, etc usually being a 2-3 page update - done monthly.

But government workers cannot be bothered to send a 5 bullet point email ONCE.

I can certainly provide Trump a list but he already has DOGE working on it, so me doing it would be redundant. Me wasting taxpayer dollars to do the same thing would be a target of DOGE.

They are cutting the redundancies, the fat, the folks not working, the folks refusing to meet their objectives and responsibilities assigned that results in their salaries.

And if it takes $400 million to cut $400 billion then that's a great return on investment.
I'm sure they are not fully utilized. No workers are, to be truthful. I worked in the private sector for 25 years and I have spent the last 5 years in Federal service. And all of those people listed are Federal workers, not contractors. I work with 2000 of them every day.

The 5 point email is neither vexing or upsetting to most. It's just stupidity. Since I've worked in both worlds I can honestly say one of the main drivers of inefficiency in the Federal workforce is all of the reporting. I have facility morning report, departmental morning huddle. Weekly reports with supervisors that report to me. Monthly reports to supervisors I report to. Monthly 10% review of my work by another person that does what I do. Monthly 10% review by me of two other people who do what I do. Quarterly reporting of those 10% reviews. Biannual reporting of those quarterly reports. Yearly review of my monthly reviews and every two years I have to be essentially re-hired based on those reports.

A 5 point email that says nothing, goes to nowhere and will never be read by anyone is just peak Federal government, lol.
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Imagine having to be account table and report what you do.

Seems to be you just don't like having anyone over your shoulder. Guess what, that's how life works unless you the top dog. But guess what, even as Top Dog in my little world I still have stakeholders and customers and suppliers and trade partners and regulatory. All of them want updates!

What's a guy just trying to survive got to do?!

You have 30 years of experience and have a very poor understanding of the point of DOGE and the tactics being employed. I have 25 years, 5 in public accounting, 5 in corporate, 15 running my own show… working with federal contracts.

I do understand the inefficiencies in government processes. I have to submit 3 packets to get paid, on each one of thousands of projects. Each of those is typically 35-90 pages. A missing period, wrong spelling, a penny rounding error causes a rejection of the payment. Guess what, we learned to adapt.

And the reason the payment process is so arduous…? Because people cheat the system. Repeatedly.

Guess what DOGE is after? People cheating the system.

Hence, sit down with your bed pan washers and helped them get their emails submitted so they don't get fired. That's what leaders do.
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flown-the-coop said:

Imagine having to be account table and report what you do.

Seems to be you just don't like having anyone over your shoulder. Guess what, that's how life works unless you the top dog. But guess what, even as Top Dog in my little world I still have stakeholders and customers and suppliers and trade partners and regulatory. All of them want updates!

What's a guy just trying to survive got to do?!

You have 30 years of experience and have a very poor understanding of the point of DOGE and the tactics being employed. I have 25 years, 5 in public accounting, 5 in corporate, 15 running my own show… working with federal contracts.

I do understand the inefficiencies in government processes. I have to submit 3 packets to get paid, on each one of thousands of projects. Each of those is typically 35-90 pages. A missing period, wrong spelling, a penny rounding error causes a rejection of the payment. Guess what, we learned to adapt.

And the reason the payment process is so arduous…? Because people cheat the system. Repeatedly.

Guess what DOGE is after? People cheating the system.

Hence, sit down with your bed pan washers and helped them get their emails submitted so they don't get fired. That's what leaders do.
TexAgs posters are just the best, lol.
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Glad to see eye to eye on something.
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I've got some really bad news for you flown-the-coop.

Another pay day here and the bed pan washers and I are still gainfully employed. I know this is a difficult time for you and my thoughts and prayers go out to you for this weekend of sorrowful disappointment. But try to be cheerful, we could always get fired Monday.

Peace be with you, brother.
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Has time to troll on TexAgs, no time to send emails at the request of the CEO of the company they work for.

At my company, I would gleefully terminate the employee and I imagine as the work of DOGE continues that such folks will either be selected for unemployment or they will quit on their own because the concept of being accountable for their job responsibilities is just too much to handle.

Imagine not wanting our government to actually operate with efficiency and accountability.
 
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