Summary
Elon Musk announced that all federal employees must report their weekly accomplishments via email or be considered resigned.
The directive requires workers to submit 5 bullet points summarizing their work by Monday night.
It remains unclear how responses will be evaluated or enforced.
Critics question the feasibility of processing hundreds of thousands of reports across multiple agencies.
I’m so torn about this as an activity. Telling my bosses what I’ve accomplished each week has been part of my regular work for 2 decades - so this doesn’t feel like an unreasonable request and I’m a bit surprised the info is not at the ready. But Musk is absolutely the wrong person to make the request and any decisions based on the information received.
I saw patients this past week. Like I do every week. That is my one bullet point. I still need 4 more bullet points??? This is ridiculous. I’m doing my job, that I have been asked to do. He doesn’t know what my job is. The AI they are going to feed my answer through doesn’t know what my job is. The people who do know what my job is know that I am doing it just fine. We already have an evaluation system that I have to sign every 6 months and submit bullet points with.
My supervisor, and their supervisors, are now going to have meetings about us responding. Then we are going to be told in meetings about how to respond. Then I spend some arbitrary amount of time responding. Do you have any idea how much combined time across the entire government is being waisted on this? This is literally millions of dollars in total time waisted just for the whims of a mad man. This is a prime example of wasting tax dollars.
It is shit leadership if your supervisors don’t know what you do (this is like a massive pet peeve of mine - that’s like literally their only job). And, possibly to your point, if your leadership can’t articulate what your team is doing, it puts your job at risk, when really they should be removing layers of management. But all of this is beside the point, because Musk shouldn’t be the one doing it.
This information is at the ready — for the people who actually need to know it (i.e., the actual chain of command, not self-appointed billionaires of made up departments).
I don’t work there, so I have no idea if the info is readily available (I hope it is for the sake of efficiency of our agencies). But, to your point, it shouldn’t be sent to Musk.
I mean you assume it’s being sent to Musk. We don’t actually know. It’s not a secured government email. Who fucking knows where it’s going or who’s seeing it.
I thought that as well. My guess is they do, but you’re right it should not be a request coming from him, and it absolutely shouldn’t be in a threatening manner either. I’m assuming many don’t want to respond because they aren’t even sure if this should be allowed. Of course, many are quickly realizing everything is allowed now.