But they said Musk is not a federal employee, so why is he issuing ultimatums?
I hereby order US federal workers to not report to work on Monday or resign.
"All federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week," Musk posted on X. "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation."
Well that sure sounds super fucking illegal!
Laws only matter when there is someone to enforce them.
You're not wrong, but I'm going to keep calling it out anyway
Sure is, but that doesn't matter any more!
It's Calvinball, government edition!
I have a good friend who is a federal regulator who works remotely. The department has a few desks in Washington DC that the staff basically rotates through when they do important filings. They are shared by 50-100 people, which is fine because they don't need them for more than a couple days a year.
The department actually needs the regulators out in the field. They closed most of the field offices to save money, since the work can be done from any computer. The only address is the DC office, which is also significantly downsized.
Just from a basic logistics perspective, this does not work.
Making it work would require making thousands of expensive new rentals over months just on the face of it.
Department of Government "Efficiency"
I would love to see all 100 people show up to the tiny office.
Send the rent bill to be in the office to nazi musk.
Given Muskrat wants all regulators fired, this is honestly probably what he hopes to achieve. ‘Oh, you don’t have offices? Then out you go!’
I thought he's not in charge?
Krasnov Trump put him in charge.
He's not. But everyone has to do what he says. Though he's not an employee. Unless it's inconvenient in which case he is.
Send him a 30 petabyte zip bomb titled "Lockheed Martin Contract Progress"
The DOGE dumbasses would probably fall for it too lol
Write it in cobol. They won't know what hit 'em.
Was thinking on these lines yesterday,
If I were a nation-state adversary to the USA right now, my intelligence people would be targeting DOGE with every piece of spyware they had
They'll open anything!
Wait, what about people on vacation? There are going to be people who come back from their vacations without a job I guess
The goal is to create chaos. The details or even legalities are not relevant.
Use grok to write some bull shit and hit reply.
spits out more slurs than regular words
Careful, will get you promoted to head of an agency you're not qualified to run with these fascists.
Termination will be taken as direct retaliation. Thanks for the free windfall.
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