Federal Employees Balk at Elon's Demands for Five Bullet Points: The General Public Is Not Understanding Why and It Shows

Over on "Confessions of a Contracting Officer"...

Federal Employees Balk at Elon's Demands for Five Bullet Points: The General Public Is Not Understanding Why and It Shows

https://koconfessional.substack.com/p/federal-employees-balk-at-elons-demands

"...Elon’s Tweet was terse and not vague. It said that if Federal employees did not respond to an OPM email requesting five bullet points summarizing what they accomplished last week, it would be considered their resignation. Federal employees who had not yet been fired went ballistic, with consensus being “HELL NO”, and the general public, well the general MAGA -loving public, decided that this meant they felt entitled as the private sector did this all the time, that the employees were just being cry-babies. But as all things Elon during this unmitigated, unnecessary, illegal carnage being inflicted by DOGE, the MAGA-loving public does not understand the nuance of what is happening here and why federal employees are so made about this. And it has nothing to do with not wanting to be held accountable...

...For the love of all that is good and holy Elon, just run these things down the chain as they should be and you will get what you want. But make sure you have the legal authority first.

And maybe, just maybe, of you treated employees with just a modicum of respect in this process, they would not want you to, as I have heard many people say, “take your right-wing, Nazi loving, apartheid sympathizing, illegal alien ass back to South Africa” so badly."