There are a LOT of bullshit laws/policies to screw over federal employees. Most people are aware that they can’t legally strike but there are a lot of less uniformly applied “behavioral” policies.
And, in a lot of ways, that is likely what musk et al is counting on. Because “Reply to this email so I can wank my broken dick to my power over you by midnight” is VERY questionable and prone to a lot of legal injunctions. But doing something that you can officially be fired for? That makes things easy.
And… it is easy to say “just quit if they are going to fire you”. But that means you aren’t getting a paycheck. And we as a people have made it increasingly clear that we don’t actually have federal employees’ backs so…
Its a dangerous tightrope to walk.
There are a LOT of bullshit laws/policies to screw over federal employees. Most people are aware that they can’t legally strike but there are a lot of less uniformly applied “behavioral” policies.
And, in a lot of ways, that is likely what musk et al is counting on. Because “Reply to this email so I can wank my broken dick to my power over you by midnight” is VERY questionable and prone to a lot of legal injunctions. But doing something that you can officially be fired for? That makes things easy.
And… it is easy to say “just quit if they are going to fire you”. But that means you aren’t getting a paycheck. And we as a people have made it increasingly clear that we don’t actually have federal employees’ backs so…