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Due to the confidential and sensitive nature of the Department's work, DOJ employees do not need to respond to the email from OPM. If you have already responded to this email, no further action is needed,
Subject to the discretion of the President, they will be given another chance,
Musk wrote, referring to the employees who did not meet the deadline to submit a recap of five things they had accomplished by 11:59 p.m. Monday The FBI, through the Office of the Director, is in charge of our review processes and will conduct reviews,
That, I think, was confusing because I think there were a couple different explanations. I think a little clarification on the voluntary part is probably good,
she added, referring to OPM's guidance that Failure to respond a second time will result in termination."
But Musk then doubled down on his threat, saying in a post on X on Monday night This is clearly an attempt from Elon Musk to harass and bully and intimidate the federal workforce, which is part of his broader plan to gut the federal workforce and privatize public sector services to ensure that corporations like his own can get more profit, and that makes me really angry, and my co-workers as well,
This outside entity sending this email has no legal authority over me,
I got this email Saturday afternoon, about 3pm, ... and I felt absolutely infuriated, getting this email with a demand within 48 hours to provide a response and what I did within the last week or face termination."
And I think we should recognize to a lot of Americans, this makes perfect sense, right? Tell us what you did last week. What are your accomplishments? Lots of people are used to doing that in their jobs,
The starting point here is it makes a lot of sense, in theory, to go and ask all the employees what they‘re doing,
Stelter said on "Inside Politics" Monday The reason this matters is that a significant number of people who are supposed to be working for the government are doing so little work that they are not checking their email at all! In some cases, we believe non-existent people or the identities of dead people are being used to collect paychecks. In other words, there is outright fraud,
Musk posted to X on Sunday Just got this email. Where do we begin?"
the White House’s Rapid Response X account posted Saturday evening, accompanied by a screenshot of the OPM email informing employees to comply with the accomplishment directive That was done in a friendly manner,
Trump said Monday while speaking with the media alongside French President Emmanuel Macron 4. Visited the Air Traffic Control Command Center in Virginia to see the critical tech upgrades we need to make our air traffic system the envy of the world. 5. Toured Burbank, California traffic control tower and heard from air traffic controllers about how to improve conditions and retain and recruit more controllers."
There was a lot of genius in sending it,
Trump said Monday from the White House Mr. President, 5 things I did last week… Looking forward to another week of fighting for Americans,
Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump's instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation,
To be clear, the bar is very low here. An email with some bullet points that make any sense at all is acceptable! Should take less than 5 mins to write,
Those who ignored President Trump’s executive order to return to work have now received over a month’s warning,
Musk wrote on X, the platform which he also owns Wow I hope there is not a mass response, especially a 'reply all' response, that would jam up the email systems,
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