IDENTIFIED: The Biggest Waste of US Tax Dollars So Far
[NB: check the byline, thanks. /~Rayne]
It’s as if every single federal employee has been sucked into the 1999 movie, Office Space, forced to generate value-sucking and utterly-useless TPS reports just to make a goddamned micromanaging control freak happy. Via NBC News:
Billionaire Elon Musk issued an ultimatum to federal employees Saturday, saying in a post on his social media platform X that employees must respond to an email justifying the work they completed this week or resign.
Federal employees have already begun receiving an email asking to summarize their work, sources familiar with the matter told NBC News, though unlike Musk’s post, it does not explicitly threaten a forced resignation.
The email, sent from the Office of Personnel Management and shared with NBC News, asked employees to send approximately five bullet points listing what they accomplished this week, CC’ing their managers.
The email reviewed by NBC News requested that employees not send any classified information, links or attachments. It said employees must respond by a deadline of Monday at 11:59 p.m. ET.
Good luck to any federal employee who’s on leave or on vacation and doesn’t learn of this until after the deadline — or who can’t provide five fucking bullet points because their job is as simple as “fought a forest fire” or “nursed veterans.”
If this is how Musk runs publicly-listed companies, shareholders should contact the boards of directors and demand he be removed because he’s wasting their investments as well.
No need to do your jobs better, no need to add more value. Just worry about fulfilling this massive time waste.
Musk needs to be fired.
Here’s your action item: find a special election for a congressional race and help the Democratic candidate win. Keep an eye out for future special elections. Take back the House to prevent any effort to legislate this kind of massive waste of tax dollars. The GOP has a very slim margin which can be eliminated through special elections.
Then find a way to communicate to other voters they need to know about this waste and be ready to help pitch in to fire Musk.
Nobody elected a shadow king, and nobody elected this blackhole draining our taxes.
Unfamiliar with the reference to Office Space? It’s streaming on Hulu.
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