Posted on 03/01/2025 2:03:13 AM PST by Libloather
Federal employees should expect another email on Saturday requiring them to explain their recent accomplishments, a renewed attempt by President Donald Trump and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk to demand answers from the government workforce.
The plan was disclosed by a person with knowledge of the situation who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.
The first email, which was distributed a week ago, asked employees “what did you do last week?” and prompted them to list five tasks that they completed.
Musk, who empowered by Trump is aiming to downsize agencies and eliminate thousands of federal jobs, said anyone who didn’t respond would be fired.
Many agencies, meanwhile, told their workforces not to respond or issued conflicting guidance.
The second email will be delivered in a different way, according to the person with knowledge of the situation, potentially making it easier to discipline employees for noncompliance.
Instead of being sent by the Office of Personnel Management, which functions as a human resources agency for the federal government but doesn’t have the power to hire or fire, the email will come from individual agencies that have direct oversight of career officials.
The plan was first reported by The Washington Post.
It’s unclear how national security agencies will handle the second email.
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Okay, let’s really tweak this. For the third time, mandate that each Federal employee write out in cursive:
1) their job title
2) their job description
3) what they have done that relates to #1 and #2.
I think this is Round 3, actually. The whining about Round 1 resulted in a 2- or 3-day extension (Round 2). Now this.
Trump has got to stop backing down. Just do the thing.
Another poster on this thread mentions them responding in cursive. I LOVE that. LOL!
Anyone know the results of the first go round?
I hear a lot of noise and whining but were there the required responses?
Civil Service employees are not used to being held accountable.
“Civil Service employees are not used to being held accountable.”
I was in HR in local government, and noticed that what you said is true. And in many cases it’s much worse. Ees who stepped WAY over the line were coddled when, if in the “real world”, they would’ve been fired.
One Department Head’s secretary had been shredding her filing for at least a year. (Filing is haaaard, y’know.) SEIU worked out a deal that she could never come back to the office, but was home on full pay for a year until she reached retirement age. Then she retired with full pension from State of CA.
This is how it should have been handled in the first place. They should have come from the heads of the agencies themselves. Just like management in each department doing an internal job evaluation report. The accountability and responsibilities of each head should have been respected in the chain of command because it is their butts on the line. It is a job evaluation of their position and leadership also so it should have gone through them down the chain.
A watch commander is directly responsible and accountable for all those under him on his watch.
Everywhere, I have worked, we had to fill weekly/monthly progress reports.
Time to hold Gov. workers to the same standard of accountability!
If I remember, yes, they were filled and sent to managers, not to HR.
My wife is a physician at the Veteran’s Administration. What does she do each week? She sees patients (veterans). Her appointments are in the VA computer system. She was annoyed by last week’s email coming from out of the blue.
We ought to think about whether these mass emails are accomplishing anything other than irritating federal workers, who, along with their families, do vote.
Put them all on Clockify, or some similar software. All working time need to be reported and explained; for hourly people, the hours reported equals the hours paid.
Did the 77,000 that volunteered to get paid until September leave? Haven’t heard the results of that. That’s a nice quick reduction if the president was serious.
I’ve had to report on my work progress this same way for 30 years. I work in private industry. Why is it any different for Gov’t workers?
so if your doctor wife doesn’t have 5 minutes to spare to support what this administration is trying to accomplish, she wasn’t voting for conservatives anyway. only democrats are above joining the MUSKeteers and being part of the TECH SUPPORT that We the People need to be. 5 minutes is not too much to ask...right?
Sounds to me like she should have taken two minutes to write down 5 patient’s names, sent the letter, and forgot about it, rather than being put-out by the fact that someone is trying to do something to improve our Federal government.
Why make this an offending issue, when it is a legitimate request?
HOORAY President Trump. HOORAY Elon Musk.
How many chances to these losers get? Fire all of those who haven’t responded, problem solved.
While annoying, I would think a doctor could recall 5 things they did the previous week. Such as see patients, write prescriptions, recommend diagnostic tests, analyze diagnostic tests and etc. While going through the chain of command would seem more appropriate, it would take months to gather all the responses and filter its way to the Doge team.
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