DOD Civilians Too!
“What did YOU do last week?”
DOD civilians ordered to respond to ‘what did you do last week?’ email
By Leo Shane III
Defense Department leaders reversed course this week and ordered all employees to respond to billionaire Elon Musk’s controversial “what did you do last week?” email by the middle of next week.
In a memo to all civilian defense employees, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that all staff members will receive a new request for a five-point summation of their weekly accomplishments on March 3. Workers will have 48 hours to reply.
Those civilian employees who do not receive the email are reportedly not expected to be impacted by the order.
Anyone surprised by this hasn’t been paying attention. I suppose I was in the wrong part of the DOD, as I was constantly under the gun to “gain efficiency” and justify my every step to the Program Office- in other words everything I did was tracked and documented, with no surprises. I found those during testing and wrote up the deficiencies. This both called attention to Boeing’s ugly baby and worse, affected The Schedule.
That, and I had been writing my own evals for years so there is no way I would be caught off guard for what is essentially a data call.
Talk about a low bar though. Only five items on an e-mail? Any who fail to muster this level of work involvement or even creativity deserve to be shitcanned. Err, invited to leave.
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Still a hard pass since service in a foreign military will cancel my retirement check. Otherwise, you know, Id be right in there. Also afraid I would beat up the drill sergeant in basic training, because I don’t, you know speak Ukrainian.
Does it come with a AK?
Hack Stone has been supplementing his income as Director of Media Relations due to cash flow problems at the proud but humble woman owned business, mainly because there is no cash flow, by taking side gigs as a government contractor in the National Capital Region. Every job Hack was employed in required the reporting of metrics, either through a Weekly Activity Report (WAR) or monthly report collected by the manager to provide to the government. It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to be able to articulate “what have you done for them lately”.
There’s a metric shit-ton of whiny federal employees out there that made the rest of us look really bad. My biggest problem with this whole circus is that it’s really going to serve no purpose. Whining and crying about it serves even less.
Agreed. I was around when Clinton cleaned out 10% of the federal work force. Not sure the right 10% got purged. This e-mail nonsense seems pointless on both sides.
0540 arrived at NASA! Already I’ve got three bullets recorded for my weekly report. This task is easy-peasy, lemon-squeezy.
I’m going to have to ask you to move your desk, again.
Playing Asteroids on your work computer does not qualify as significant achievements for the week.
Unless you also nailed that spacecraft shooting at you, then take the rest of the week off.
Describe it as “performed a training exercise in spatial orientation and eye/hand coordination”. It’s all in the way you brief it.
So….how many Cylons did your three (3) Door Gunner Bullets score hits on? I want a BDA in my box ASAP! I, too, have reports to make.
How do I input “beat basic knowledge into junior mechanics heads “in proper beaurcratic terms?
Finally determined my government email, despite the IT techs muddling the waters. Top of the queue was an email from Hegseth, saying you will respond.
“Enthusiastically and repeatedly mentored junior mechanics in required basic skills”.
Aside from the left-winger Demonrats all up in arms because their swamp is being drained, I can’t understand why anyone with common sense and the normal load of brain cells would find this offensive. If you can’t prove what you are doing while “working remotely”, then you aint working and therefor, therefor (stole that one from Scrooge in a Christmas Carol), you don’t deserve to be paid. I remember a lesson learned from my Dad (US Army Type) when I got my first job delivering papers. I made a crack about “them” (the paper that I worked for) owing me something and Dad replied, “owe you, owe you what? They don’t owe you shit unless it’s your weekly pay, and that’s only if you worked for it. If you don’t work, you don’t deserve it!” Dad was part of the greatest generation and that’s just how he saw it and he instilled that upon us. I’m 63 today and I still believe that.
Reply to Marine: Things that Dad’s say that stick with you. I delivered the eulogy at my father’s funeral without notes and I quoted a lot of stuff he instill in me over the years. I, in turn, have past them on to my son, grandsons and great grandsons. The oldest being 13, which as every one knows, is a dangerous year. He is the most grounded individual there is, being great at sports, academics, and helping me get around. I, in return, am greatful for my dad’s widsom. Of course his father past on my widsom to him, so I cannot take all the credit. BZ
Boiling, you are 100% correct. My dad died back in 1993 and aside of thinking about he and Mom every day, I remember almost all of his tag lines and most importantly, I now fully understand the messages and lessons that he was trying to pass on to me through my thick head. I passed all of my Dad’s wisdom on to my daughter who I know will pass it on to my three grandkids. Lord knows they will need it in this whacky world they will grow up in.
Shoot, I got off topic as I wanted to say that during my military career, I had to report on a weekly basis what I had accomplished. At one point, I kept an hourly log of stuff. However, when I found out that nobody read anything I reported, I started to get creative. Funny, downright dangerous, and perhaps, anti officer. Nobody read any of them. Wish I would have kept them. BZ
lol…nothing like creative writing thrown into the void.
As a member of the DA civilian cohort, this is nothing new for some of us, not sure why all the gnashing of teeth…unless you aren’t doing your job.
“We waste more taxpayer money before 09:00 than most government employees waste all day.”
90% of the Federal Government workforce.
Weekly reports are pretty normal but damn, skip the chain of command much? Why have managers then? I don’t recall reporting directly to SecDef ever. I sent my reports to my Group Lead and then it was his problem from there on.
Like who is going to read through these emails anyway? And really, what do you say? Worked on Polo Step, IJSTO, SI/TK stuff? If you are Air Force just say worked on Cobra [insert name]?
Or you say I did what my boss told me and my boss is satisfied with my work. This all seems childish.
In my time at DOD and DOE we were proud civil servants and we worked hard. Of course leaving the civil service made my pay increase by serious amounts so there is that…