Elon Musk to federal workforce: What have you accomplished?
Federal workers previously received an email. The email asked them for a bullet point list of what they accomplished during the previous week. This request drew protests from many federal workers, some of whom received notification from their own agencies to delay their responses. For those who refused, failure to respond by the deadline would result in termination. Elon Musk provided hints of a second similar email. President Donald Trump is aware of the request for past week accomplishments; those who fail to respond to the second email request by the deadline will be fired.
From New York Post:
“The email request was utterly trivial, as the standard for passing the test was to type some words and press send!” Musk wrote on X. “Yet so many failed even that inane test, urged on in some cases by their managers.”
“Subject to the discretion of the President, they will be given another chance,” he wrote in a separate post. “Failure to respond a second time will result in termination.”
The billionaire head of President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency argued that the level of concern sparked by the initial DOGE demand was “absurd” and indicative that “something is deeply wrong” with the federal workforce.
Responses to the first batch of “what you accomplished” emails were due by 11:59 p.m. ET Monday.
Trump, 78, defended the Musk-directed effort hours before OPM’s new guidance circulated.
“I thought it was great because we have people that don’t show up to work and nobody even knows if they work for the government,” the president told reporters in the Oval Office. “What he’s doing is saying ‘Are you actually working?'”
Additional Reading:
Christenson, J. (2025, February 24). Trump backs Musk’s ‘what did you do last week’ email to federal employees, says workers will be ‘semi-fired or fired’ if not answered. New York Post. Link.
Nava, V. (2025, February 24). Elon Musk issues final warning to fed government workers who don’t respond to a second ‘what you accomplished’ email. New York Post. Link.
Category: DOGE, Donald Trump, Government Incompetence, Society
This is all I can say
Dear Doge,
Today I woke up and hit the showers where I bated for about five minutes and then washed my ass. I then got my shit ready and went on patrol. People threw rocks at me and I shot pin flares at them. We got back and had some lunch and I fucked off for a couple of hours bated and took a nap. I got some chow after that and went back to my chu and played CoD on my XBox till about 2300. I then bated and went to sleep. All in all it was a very productive day. You bitches fuck off and I hope your firings go well, especially all those assholes at the VA.
Yours Truly,
Specialist Antgona Wannabe
Sounds like A’stan… except for the “Ambien Challenge”– drop your recommended dose then see if you can “finish” before you pass out. Losers suffer embarassment of being found zonked with weiner in-hand. (Then there were the dudes who drank all the Listerine… )
The managers who told their employees to ignore a directive from the agent of the Chief Executive should be fired with prejudice, retirement benefits removed, and audits initiated.
Well that will be the shortest term for an FBI Director evah’!
When I was the chauffer, I had to write the time down for every bank/other delivery stop times, arriving and time leaving plus the amount of items beiing delivered and picked up. It was called a chauffers sheet.. When I was the Messenger (signer of merchandise) I had to keep a sheet with all the stops on it. As the chauffer, I had to fill out the DOT drivers log. Brink’s had to fill out the log but talking to UPS drivers, the told me that they for some reason were exempt.
Sloppy.
Some people do not like taking orders from an unelected beaurocrat do they? Now they are getting a good taste of what we the people have been dealing with for years.
The Bobs have arrived!
Ah, but the irony here is that the Bobs were a part of the problem. They would get rid of productive, well paid people to outsource to India for half the pay and one tenth the production. So the numbers would look better but the company would go under anyway because nobody wants to deal with them anymore.
True, I was mainly focused on the initial question to everyone.
At least Peter would have responded to the email.
The messaging on this was clear as mud, even to the point of ‘semi-firing’ people, per Trump:
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook-remaking-government/2025/02/24/youre-semi-fired-00205823
I am in favor of firing anyone who foolishly responds and mentions anything sensitive in their bullet list, though, especially since nobody has said which AI it’s going through. (Please don’t be DeepSeek, please don’t be DeepSeek…)
Soooooo, just a guestimate on how many civilians are working with classified information that is so secret that it can even be talked about obliquely? According to available data perhaps 10% have a clearance. So the other 90% have absolutely no reason not to comply.
Anyone in the army should find this easy to answer.
Close with either:
“That’s a Fact, Jack! – Pvt John Winger”
Or
“We do more before 9AM than most people do all day!”
I think my reply was more accurate, at least based upon my observations while deployed.
Rhetorical question: Where was the outrage when federal employees were fired for not getting the jab?
I can bash my head against my keyboard at work and come up with five things I accomplished in a WEEK, so the whiners got me puzzled.
Shit, write a list of things you WANT to accomplish in a work week and just erase the ones you didn’t get to… that’s even easier.
These whiney assholes are insufferable.