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2025-02-23 Home Front: Politix

Elon Musk says federal employees must fill out productivity reports or resign

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-23 01:41|| || Front Page|| [11145 views ] Top

#1 Better to say it's a new OPM policy.
Musk should not issue directives.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-23 01:52|| 2025-02-23 01:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Kash Patel Tells FBI Staff To Ignore Elon Musk's Demand: Report

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-23 07:40|| 2025-02-23 07:40|| Front Page Top

#3 So what, exactly, is it that you do here?

Posted by Super Hose 2025-02-23 09:16|| 2025-02-23 09:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Point One: Responding to numerous work killing emails like this one.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-23 09:32|| 2025-02-23 09:32|| Front Page Top

#5 If you can't name five productive things you did in 40 hours last week, you should be unemplyed

Posted by Frank G 2025-02-23 12:00|| 2025-02-23 12:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Well, I was a computer programming instructor for 40 years. Many of the classes I taught were 1-5 weeks, so all I would say for last week would be something like "Taught Java programming."
I suppose I could split it into 5 bullet points, but really all I did was teach.

Posted by Rambler 2025-02-23 12:18|| 2025-02-23 12:18|| Front Page Top

#7 but really all I did was teach

Building the coursework plan
Creating and submitting advancement metrics
Reviewing and selecting teaching materials
Building the course and labwork research
Mapping the coursework plan to a calendar schedule
Scheduling, executing and evaluating metrics
Preparing individual improvement plans and metrics
Success activity scoring [grading]

Dragging the thankless little bastards to a qualified endpoint ... priceless.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-23 14:37|| 2025-02-23 14:37|| Front Page Top

#8 "They Are Covering Immense Fraud": Musk Says Surprise Fed Emails Meant To Uncover 'Non-Existent Or Dead People' Collecting Paychecks

Update (1118ET): After panic swept through Washington over Elon Musk's email requiring all federal employees to send an email by Monday at midnight with five bullet points explaining what they got done last week, Musk explained the reasoning behind the last minute demand: "immense fraud."

"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!" Musk wrote on X. "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."

Posted by Frank G 2025-02-23 15:52|| 2025-02-23 15:52|| Front Page Top

#9 So "ghost employees" are now being flushed out.

Excellent effort.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-23 16:05|| 2025-02-23 16:05|| Front Page Top

#10 The perps will sign into their account

Posted by Super Hose 2025-02-23 20:56|| 2025-02-23 20:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Fed Souls? [AI portrait of fat Black trans Ukrainian [Russians screeching] Gogol here]

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2025-02-23 21:32|| 2025-02-23 21:32|| Front Page Top

#12 are doing so little work that they are not checking their email at all!"

Oh! This is analogous to the musician contract that as a final point requires a fresh bowl of M&Ms in the dressing room each night, said bowl to contain no blue M&Ms whatsoever. Not because the musicians care, but if that point is not noticed and acted on by the site managers, who knows what other, much more important, points are also being missed?

Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-23 21:32|| 2025-02-23 21:32|| Front Page Top

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