Sometime in the late 90s or early 2000s they came up with the auto check for email accounts that were inactive. It's still a part of email systems and is even more sophisticated. It sends out a simple email saying your account has been inactive for X number of days, months, etc. Asks you to respond within a certain period or your account is removed. Today that's linked to other system/account accesses as well as security clearances. Yet you guys think asking for a list of 5 meaningful things you did this week was intended to serve that purpose. Oookay….BearFan33 said:DOGE is looking for fraud, waste and abuse in the government. I read that there may be people on the payroll that do nothing other than collect a check or not exist at all. DOGE is looking into that. One of their methods is an inelegant email request for a response.ATL Bear said:Why does DOGE need to know these things? And I can think of many difficulties of sharing a number of different government activities to a non government agency. Intel, law enforcement, defense, etc. They have new bosses at the top. Let them do their job for their areas of responsibility.canoso said:If they're doing their jobs, what's the difficulty with mentioning 5 meaningful things they accomplished in an entire work week? Unless they're doing something other than their jobs.......C. Jordan said:The federal workers I know at church are vexed about all this.boognish_bear said:NEW: Despite the Trump administration informing federal agencies that responding to Elon Musk's "What did you do last week?" email is voluntary, Musk is doubling down on his threats to federal workers, saying those who do not respond will be terminated.https://t.co/FBwh7viL7U
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First, Musk says they have to do this. Second, many of their agency heads say they don't have to do this. Third, Trump says maybe or maybe not. Fourth, Musk says they have to do this.
Pure incompetent chaos.
Several of them voted for Trump and are complaining about the chaos.
All of them would like to be treated like human beings doing their jobs. They don't understand why the Musk Administration isn't treating them this way.
So, the idea is that the replies of these hundreds of thousands of workers will be fed into an AI program, which will decide their fate? All their performance evaluations, etc., wlll be irrelevant?
There's no excuse for treating people this way.