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.”

  • Lasherz12@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 小时前

    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.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    49·
    3 小时前

    You heard it, federal employees: Anything that comes from Musk’s department could be a joke, so ignore all of it.

  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
    64·
    4 小时前

    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”

  • Voroxpete
    54·
    4 小时前

    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.

  • HexPat@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    2 小时前

    Surely somebody must have the email address these emails came from. Seems like an address we could all chime in at

  • cardboardchris@lemmy.world
    27·
    4 小时前

    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.

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
    101·
    3 小时前

    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.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    16·
    4 小时前

    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)

  • ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 小时前

    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.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
      8·
      3 小时前

      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.

    • Soup@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 小时前

      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.

  • Zip2@feddit.uk
    6·
    3 小时前

    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.