Somehow, this Musky-smelling turd has to be reined in. He tweets that all fed employees will soon receive an email requesting to know what they did the past week and failure to respond will be considered resignation. Two hours later, fed employees get an email from OPM giving them 48 hours to identify 5 things they did the past week. No mention of forced resignation.
Apparently Musk has the authority as Trump's personal lapdog (or the other way around) to direct OPM to send such an email. Maybe saner minds at OPM chose to leave out any mention of an illegal forced resignation. But it seems they were too chickenshit to point out the absurdity of the request and refuse to send it.
The first absurdity is that such a request is outside the realm of OPM which would have no way to evaluate responses. A second absurdity is the timing over a weekend with no consideration of workhours or leave. Musk himself double-downed on the demand by claiming it would identify employees who don't check their government email showing he doesn't understand no one is required to do so when not working. A third absurdity is not knowing some employees are legally prohibited from discussing their work - to include unclassified work. A fourth absurdity is Musk's claims that there is a belief (in his head apparently) that dead people are on the government payroll.
I'm not arguing against the idea of government accountability. Just the stupidity shown by the WH trying to get it. In the end, the fact that even Trump's FBI head appointee and other agency heads are telling employees to ignore OPM shows there is a problem.
A final absurdity are so many ignorant Trump supporters saying "what's the problem with such a request" and "it's just liberals against Trump". If you believe that, go back and read the first four absurdities I cited.
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