The chaotic, destructive mis-rule of ketamine-fueled, chainsaw-wielding, multi-billionaire co-President Elon "Harry Bolz" Musk has reached a new low:
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been given little more than 48 hours to explain what they accomplished over the last week, sparking confusion across key agencies as billionaire Elon Musk expands his crusade to slash the size of federal government.
Musk, who serves as President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting chief, telegraphed the extraordinary request on his social media network on Saturday.
“Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week,” Musk posted on X, which he owns. “Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”
Shortly afterward, federal employees — including some judges, court staff and federal prison officials — received a three-line email with this instruction: “Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.”
The deadline to reply was listed as Monday at 11:59 p.m., although the email did not include Musk’s social media threat about those who fail to respond.
The latest unusual directive from Musk’s team injects a new sense of chaos across beleaguered multiple agencies, including the National Weather Service, the State Department and the federal court system, as senior officials worked to verify the message’s authenticity Saturday night and in some cases, instructed their employees not to respond...
The hundreds of thousands of people who work for the federal government don't need this level of puerile threat and aggravation from an un-elected, clueless, "on the spectrum" (Musk's description) multi- billionaire raised in apartheid South Africa. This is in no way practical or helpful (can you imagine the time and effort needed for Musk and his Muskrats to sift through and absorb hundreds of thousands of email responses?). Rather, this has the odor of an impetuous whim that, given a second thought, should have been nipped in the bud.
Oh, and what did Musk get done last week, in addition to sending out this useless, morale-busting email? He showed up at NutPac with a chainsaw to symbolize his carefully thought out approach to government (and btw his personal life). The idea that this "idiot" (his father's one time assessment) is chaotically chainsawing government-- and through the lives of countless Americans -- as the deranged Malignant Fascist's (a.k.a., "FSB Agent Krasnov"?) un-elected co-President is one of the biggest disgraces, and most dangerous acts, so far in this nascent klepto-kakistocratic coup.
BONUS: Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) has the proper "GFY" response:
This is a good opportunity for mass civil disobedience. Musk has no authority to do this. Encourage all federal employees to report to work, prepare GFY letters and continue to demonstrate the public service and patriotism he lacks. https://t.co/ftIsk6lKzL
— Sean Casten (@SeanCasten) February 22, 2025
BONUS II: LGM's Paul Campos notes --
Elon Musk is still trying to get a Delaware court to approve a $100 billion — that’s billion, not million — compensation package for what he does at Tesla, which appears to be quite literally “nothing.”
(Photo: Harry Bolz at CPAC NutPac, with Argentina's Trump, Javier Milei, cheering him on.)
👵 I'm old enough to remember the beginnings of email. There was tutoring on how to use it and tips on ETIQUETTE in the workplace!! Ancient history, but the best suggestion was "if the email is very important, or you are angry, write the email in your word processing program. DO NOT compose in the email system...you need time to calm down and proofread and edit. DO NOT BE AFRAID TO DELETE IT! It is easier to sit on it, then copy/paste/send than it is to send it and face the backlash!! Yah, remember ETIQUETTE?! [sigh] 🥹
ReplyDeleteMy M.A. is in Human and Corporate Communication. I would love to give the "geniuses of business" who are destroying the USA some remedial lessons. My students and clients were given the model of communication that demonstrates how it works. Bosses always complain that nobody does what the managerial memos told them to do and I would respond that memos are one-way attempts to communicate and there is no such thing as one-way. All communication is two-way and the when the loop closes, you have the answer...your memo wasn't as clearly worded as you thought; you send too many memos and it's all just noise; or, your employees know far more about how to do their work than you do and, by ignoring you, they just saved your business from ruin, genius!! Whatever the response, it is the boss who has to change if they want to be heard!!🤪🤪
Of course, in the case of an idiot Nazi Oligarch, the answer is a middle finger!! I love that Kash Patel told FBI employees that the middle finger to Musk is the right answer!! 🤣🤣
LOL ~ I used to teach email etiquette. Doctors, lawyers, college professors. We were doing pretty good too, till that Zuckerberg kid and his voyeur ap launched, about the same time it became acceptable to be ... ahhhh, rude; 'bout the same time the bully culture we now enjoy really started to take off
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