Agencies seek guidance on latest Musk OPM email, with some urging employees to hold off responding
Agencies seek guidance on latest Musk OPM email, with some urging employees to hold off responding
Multiple federal agencies appeared to be caught off guard by the Elon Musk-directed email from the Office of Personnel Management.
Summary
Federal agencies, including FEMA, IRS, NOAA, CDC, DOE, and the Pentagon, were surprised by an OPM email, directed by Elon Musk, demanding employees list weekly accomplishments.
Agencies are advising staff to delay responding, pending further guidance. Some, like the FBI, have instructed a "pause." NOAA recommended waiting until Monday for potential clarification.
Musk stated non-compliance would be considered resignation. Agencies are now seeking clarity from Treasury and other departments on how to proceed with the unprecedented request.
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To explain how utterly insane this is: the email requires a response by Monday. Elon Musk sent out these emails on Saturday Night.
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FBI primarily works on Top Secret missions, meaning they do NOT often read unclassified emails. Department of Energy is largely Top Secret (ie: Nuclear Weapons) projects.
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In these Top Secret jobs, it is illegal to say what you've done in an unclassified setting. So it isn't very clear how you're even supposed to write an email on what you've done, as writing such an email is literally illegal.
maybe it’s a trap and he just wants them to reply with it’s classified
This. Nobody is going to be reading millions of emails. He's probably piping everything to some shitty model.
Not him... His goon squad... The idiot does absolutely nothing but run his mouth... Don't give him so much credit
He stated he was feeding the emails into AI.
Oh, stop trying to make sense of nonsense...
Occam's razor suggests this is simply a "see how many don't respond by the deadline so I can say they resigned and are off the books adding to my already bogus count of cost savings".
Just a schoolyard level ploy...
Come on. 🤷♂️
If Elon doesn't reply "what?" to this comment he's a sphincter
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