Elon Musk again leaves his mark on official contacts from the federal government. In an email to the employees on Saturday afternoon, the Personnel Management Office, who was stacked with MUSK employees, requested that employees send five bullet points showing what they accomplished last week and their manager. “The failure of the response will be considered resignation,” MUSK wrote on X.
The move comes after President Trump announced that he wanted to be more powerful musk. “Elon is doing a great job, but I would like to see him becoming more aggressive,” he wrote in fact. “Remember, we have a country to save him, but in the end, to make larger than ever. Maga!”
“You will do, my master!” Musk answered a mail On x.
Memorandum, which is closely similar to note Send musk To Twitter employees in June 2023, it determines that employees should not include information, links or attachments classified in their responses. WIRED confirmed that employees of the FBI, internal revenue service, national health institutes, and the Federal Aviation Administration, all of which deal with classified information, received similar notifications. The deadline for the response is Monday at 11:59 pm EST.
“They prove that their only goal is not efficiency, but to dismantle democracy by shocking federal workers,” says one of the current federal employees who asked not to disclose their identity because they did not publicly talk about his agency. “They see this as a video game where they wear every time they hurt or cancel a federal worker.”
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has cleared thousands of test employees who have been in the federal government for a year or two. These cuts initially struck hundreds of people working on nuclear security as well as veterans and Ministry of Agriculture employees who are trying to avoid influenza. The alleged government efficiency was also freezing or attempted to dismantle the United States Agency for International Development and the Financial Consumer Protection Office.
It is not clear whether OPM has the power to force federal workers to resign if they do not respond to e -mail. “I don’t know that anyone can evaluate what is legal at the present time because the agencies that are supposed to work as a monitoring device are dismantled,” says Lori Borges, a lawyer who represented a number of Twitter and Spacex employees. She pointed out that she has cases to hear before the National Council for Labor Relations this spring and does not feel confident that the council will continue to be present at this deadline.
In January, OPM sent federal workers an e -mail with the “Fork in the Road” topic, reflecting a note that was sent to Twitter employees in November 2022. Employed people “reliable, loyal and trustworthy, who are striving for excellence.” Those who did not want to comply have been granted a deferred resignation offer, which the White House enjoys He said About 75,000 federal workers accepted.