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Elon Musk on why he send the email demanding federal workers reply by Monday with what they did last week at work or be fired
x ^ | 2/23/25 | Elon Musk

Posted on 02/23/2025 5:45:49 PM PST by blueyon

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.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: doge; elon; email; ghostemployees; musk; trump
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Have you been watching posts on X going nuts over the weekend. I have. It has been fun and amusing to watch heads explode over such a simple request. Several top goverment workers and unions have been telling the federal employees not to answer Musk's email that was sent to many gov't workers. First, there is nothing wrong with asking an employee to be accountable for what they do (most have to in the real word). Second, I hope the bosses get fired right away for insubordinate. Musk request makes total sense to me.
1 posted on 02/23/2025 5:45:49 PM PST by blueyon
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To: blueyon

yes

he was fishing for ghost employees


2 posted on 02/23/2025 5:46:32 PM PST by joshua c
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To: blueyon

and now he knows where to dig deeper for fraud


3 posted on 02/23/2025 5:48:24 PM PST by joshua c
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To: blueyon

Why shouldn’t they have to state what they’ve been doing??

I’ve worked for the same employer for 38 years. I have had to meet production quotas each and every year or they will fire me. Tax payer funded employees in a tiff because they have to explain what they are doing is supposed to upset me??


4 posted on 02/23/2025 5:48:43 PM PST by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: blueyon

For any week I had to tabulated a account of what I did that week

Would have been easy to show what I did.

Just send in my time and activity report.


5 posted on 02/23/2025 5:50:01 PM PST by riverrunner
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To: blueyon

But fraud is the heart and soul of our democracy! No wonder Democrats said Trump is a danger do it!


6 posted on 02/23/2025 5:50:24 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: blueyon

Now this should be noted

Having been at a federal job, at one time they DID remove all access for a whole number of employees because it was removed for one employee

Which means I could NOT get to my email - NOR anything else

Hilariously, weeks and weeks later, having been notified of same, my NEW boss came by my (no computer) desk to notify me that I was way behind on training (on the computer) so I came up on the list as needing to catch up

I THEN reminded her that X from department Y had removed my computer access (along with a bunch of other people) so it was IMPOSSIBLE for me to do my computer training

LOL


7 posted on 02/23/2025 5:51:37 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: blueyon

Yeh the boss just got them fired. Unless that was “the plan”


8 posted on 02/23/2025 5:51:37 PM PST by pangaea6
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To: blueyon

His request makes perfect sense to me, too. When I was starting out in Field Service Engineering in power plants (back in ‘73), I had to write weekly reports on what I did at every job I performed. It was just part of the job. I can’t believe anybody would complain about ONE email with only FIVE bullet points about what they did.

I can see concerns about confidential programs in the NSA, CIA or FBI, but they could write a generic email without providing specifics. Musk is mainly interested in finding the ghost employees, not in what people actually did.


9 posted on 02/23/2025 5:52:03 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Democrats who say ‘no one is above the law’ won’t mind going to prison for the money they stole.)
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To: blueyon

I won solitaire 5 times? Does that count?


10 posted on 02/23/2025 5:52:33 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: blueyon

Question, Musk’s email was supposedly sent on Saturday with a response due Monday.

WHAT government employee checks their WORK email on the weekend (Saturday & Sunday) when are not supposed to be working?


11 posted on 02/23/2025 5:52:56 PM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: blueyon

“””people who are supposed to be working for the government are doing so little work that they are not checking their email at all!”””


And we can be 100% certain that Elon and his troops had already used their computer skills to determine exactly who those employees are that have not checked their emails.


12 posted on 02/23/2025 5:56:53 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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I had no idea so many pussies worked for the federal government. Crying over having to send an email. Fire everyone who cries.


13 posted on 02/23/2025 5:57:31 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: blueyon

He should have sent out a notice to a small sample of agency heads (and the HR heads) on Wednesday to explain exceptions. And then on Thursday send out this email and anyone with questions to contact their HR on Friday. Then the next week make it go branch-wide. But alas by doing it this way he may have saved a lot of compensation for “dead” people and sooner discover . Nevertheless, I’m still a big fan of new HR processes getting a very short pilot rollout to make sure the bugs are worked out. This helps reduce confusion.

Anyone wanting to keep their jobs would be foolish to not comply, regardless of what their union, bureaucracy leaders, or others not getting clear chain-of-command guidance on exceptions. If any of them are on vacation or sick then they could send a quick email reply that they are out sick or vacation & will take care of it when back; and/or call-in with this same info.

Anyone getting this email that may be a Legislative branch or Judiciary branch employee or in the private sector should just reply “f u” as this only is for 1 branch at 1 level of government. The best way to minimize this upheaval in the future is to have a much smaller federal government.


14 posted on 02/23/2025 5:59:19 PM PST by Degaston
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To: blueyon

It’s an elegant way to reduce the number of employees they have to investigate.


15 posted on 02/23/2025 6:00:00 PM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: blueyon

Patel said nope. Marco Rubio said nope. Elon might get a few from some workers. But a big chunk he won’t get. I haven’t heard from Pete and DOD.


16 posted on 02/23/2025 6:00:27 PM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: blueyon

When government employees and contractors leave the assignment, the email address is usually not removed.

Due to the record keeping act, it’s easier just to keep the emails in that mailbox as opposed to archiving them off separately somewhere.


17 posted on 02/23/2025 6:00:41 PM PST by fruser1
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To: riverrunner

Did you send it to Elon musk?


18 posted on 02/23/2025 6:01:18 PM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: SaveFerris

19 posted on 02/23/2025 6:01:37 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Larry Lucido

You realize that Penske has offered me a job?

I’m not Penske material?

Well, ta-ta!!


20 posted on 02/23/2025 6:02:56 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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