Elon Musk admits email to government workers was a ruse
Elon Musk admits email to government workers was a ruse
Department of Government Efficiency head says he wants to test whether federal employees are ‘capable of replying to an email’
Elon Musk said that blanket emails sent to federal employees asking for a response about their weekly accomplishments or risk termination was a test to see if they “had a pulse.”
This is always the way with fascists. When they find out or don't get away with it, it's always "just a joke bro, lol, literally why are you overreacting"
Sexual predators as well.
You heard it, federal employees: Anything that comes from Musk's department could be a joke, so ignore all of it.
This isn't an admission, it's a cover up.
It's no different than the people who declare they were 'just trolling' when their shitty opinion gets trashed. People stood up to him and his fragile ego can't take it.
The word choice in this headline is misleading. "Admits" implies that the newly revealed information is true. He didn't "admit" it was a ruse. He "claimed" it was a ruse.
Even if it was a "test" (I don't believe him), what stable boss or oversight authority does shit like that!? Not very EfFiCiEnT, Musk...
(His actions are also illegal and the only reason he hasn't been hauled in front of Congress is because Republicans keep blocking it)
He could do a pulse check on reality himself. What an absolute twat.
No, no, fucking no.
He isn't admitting shit.
This is the Schrodinger's Shitpost tactic.
This is the narcissist telling you 'chill out it was just a joke' after insulting you.
Fascists are malignant narcissists.
They are bullies.
They also don't believe in anything other than power.
What Elon is doing is just backing off after testing how badly he could abuse people and figured out 'oh, maybe I can't actually get away with this.'
If this hadn't gotten a massive backlash, he wouldn't have told us all a week later 'haha you got punk'd!', he'd just have kept pushing more and more boundaries of control and power whilst cackling about it.
All of these power mad fucksticks are just playground bullies with personality disorders.
They must be resisted, politely at first, then with force when they refuse to stop escalating.
Is this government efficiency? How many man hours across the US gov were wasted on this? The cure for cancer was at least pushed back 2 days because of this.
The federal government employs around 3 million people.
Let's assume his email only reached a measly 2/3rds of the workforce, or about 2 million. If all of those workers wasted 10 minutes reading and replying to that crap using generative AI to fluff it up, it would be a combined total of 333k hours wasted.
More realistically, you have far less than 100% of the email recipents replying. But, those that do would probably spend anywhere between 20 to 40 minutes trying to write something they think would let them keep their job. For simplicity sake, let's just go with a rounded original estimate of 350k hours.
But, how much would that cost? Being charitable to fElon and assuming all those workers were paid federal minimum ($7.50/hour), that's $2,625,000 worth of worker time at minimum.
How much did that actually cost the government? Close to nothing because the fucker sent it on a weekend and demanded a reply before it would encroach on time they're actually paid to work for. It's a fuck-you from the unelected president meant to sew fear and uncertainty and to tell workers that they're expected to bark when he says so.
Two days if everything went back to normal. Buddy at this point they’ve broken so much stuff I’d be amazed if the US was gunna be the country to produce a cure.
RFK’s brainworm says cancer is good for you, now get back to your ADHD camp.
Why are media outlets so complicit in all of this? Headline makes it sound like this was planned all along. Change “admits” to “claims” and you have a more accurate story.
There were a couple of AP articles I saw earlier that stood out as being even worse. First, there's this one that I objected to and have been arguing about in the comments.
It's infuriating how the consent is being manufactured right before our eyes and people just flat-out refuse to see it.
Second, compare this group of headlines on the same topic:
- Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE (AP)
- More than 20 Musk staffers resign over Doge’s ‘dismantling of public services’ (The Guardian)
- 21 DOGE staffers resign as they refuse to 'dismantle critical public services' (The Wrap)
It really stands out when they're juxtaposed next to each other, doesn't it?
While I'm at it, I'd also like to mention this video I saw the other day. It's mostly off-topic (it's about NYC's new congestion charge and comparing it to London's experience implementing the concept), but it gives a really good example of how propagandized US news can be even on something that isn't overtly partisan the way Musk/DOGE topics are.
What a weak little parasite
Surely somebody must have the email address these emails came from. Seems like an address we could all chime in at
Riiiiiiight.... 😉
This has “it’s just a prank, bro” vibes from one of those insufferable people.
It wasn’t a ruse. Hardly anyone replied more likely.
Pretty sure the average conservative would lose their shit, literally into their pants, if any psych test was issued on them let alone from Obama or Biden.
Friendly reminder that the email says no attachments but doesn't mentioned pictures. I would suggest filling up a photo of your agency emblem with empty bits to the maximum allowed by the server.
"And I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling adults!" 😡
Does torturing people with shitty jokes improve efficiency? Even if you for some reason take him at his word... We need to have a talk about what he's wasting his time at work on. Maybe he can send me an email about that.
We all know that you hit the 100gb maximum and had to bail out you stupid piece of shit.
Cruel and unusual punishment you say?
Infuriating headline