What did you get done last week? Elon wants to know...
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There are different ways of thinking about this. In such a large endeavor, meticulousness can lead to analysis paralysis, and government is much given to that.
I'm not sure it would be possible to get a great grasp on understanding the culture of federal employees, certainly not within the timeframe of one four-year term. I do think though that it might be better to just an across the board 5% cut this year, fix what's broken, another 5% next year and so on.
A lot of times when large cuts come some things do not continue getting done. very often they are things that don't really need to get done. That's not to say all will be peaches and cream, but here is no way we're going to get spending down painlessly.
@Mik said in What did you get done last week? Elon wants to know...:
There are different ways of thinking about this. In such a large endeavor, meticulousness can lead to analysis paralysis, and government is much given to that.
I'm not sure it would be possible to get a great grasp on understanding the culture of federal employees, certainly not within the timeframe of one four-year term. I do think though that it might be better to just an across the board 5% cut this year, fix what's broken, another 5% next year and so on.
Yeah there is a middle ground to this. I've said this elsewhere. The "move fast and break things" works in iterative software development and makes for good headlines with those outside the government who think most federal workers are just wastes of space... but there is a smarter way to do this that avoids analysis paralysis but also avoids the "oops we just lost the talented folks who help prevent the hacking of our grid, or the people who are watching over our nuke stockpile, or the people helping veterans use their health and education benefits".
You are right, IMO that it's better to force cuts (I've said this before even Trump)... let agency leaders (like private industry) find where the fat is and cut it. But the RTO, early retirement 8-months of pay, and "oops we need to re-hire you because you didn't reply to Elon's email), is doing nothing but costing the taxpayer more, in net.
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In any decently run company, managers will know what their employees are doing without having them send emails justifying their existence.
If the manager doesn't know, then he's the one who should be justifying his existence.
@Doctor-Phibes said in What did you get done last week? Elon wants to know...:
In any decently run company, managers will know what their employees are doing without having them send emails justifying their existence.
If the manager doesn't know, then he's the one who should be justifying his existence.
LOL ain't that the truth
And federal agencies generally know too, but are often not allowed to reduce staff or fire people. One good thing Trump did in his first term was remove some of the red tape needed to fire a bad employee. I think that was Schedule F, but not sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schedule_F_appointment
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Trump weighs in to clear up any confusion.
President Trump said on Monday that Mr. Musk’s email demanding that federal workers justify their jobs was “ingenious” and “great” and repeated Mr. Musk’s written warning: “If you don’t answer, you’re sort of semi-fired or you’re fired.”
Only non-witches get due process.
- Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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Trump weighs in to clear up any confusion.
President Trump said on Monday that Mr. Musk’s email demanding that federal workers justify their jobs was “ingenious” and “great” and repeated Mr. Musk’s written warning: “If you don’t answer, you’re sort of semi-fired or you’re fired.”
@jon-nyc said in What did you get done last week? Elon wants to know...:
Trump weighs in to clear up any confusion.
President Trump said on Monday that Mr. Musk’s email demanding that federal workers justify their jobs was “ingenious” and “great” and repeated Mr. Musk’s written warning: “If you don’t answer, you’re sort of semi-fired or you’re fired.”
I wonder if Trump got an email
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@jon-nyc said in What did you get done last week? Elon wants to know...:
Trump weighs in to clear up any confusion.
President Trump said on Monday that Mr. Musk’s email demanding that federal workers justify their jobs was “ingenious” and “great” and repeated Mr. Musk’s written warning: “If you don’t answer, you’re sort of semi-fired or you’re fired.”
I wonder if Trump got an email
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Trump weighs in to clear up any confusion.
President Trump said on Monday that Mr. Musk’s email demanding that federal workers justify their jobs was “ingenious” and “great” and repeated Mr. Musk’s written warning: “If you don’t answer, you’re sort of semi-fired or you’re fired.”
@jon-nyc said in What did you get done last week? Elon wants to know...:
Trump weighs in to clear up any confusion.
President Trump said on Monday that Mr. Musk’s email demanding that federal workers justify their jobs was “ingenious” and “great” and repeated Mr. Musk’s written warning: “If you don’t answer, you’re sort of semi-fired or you’re fired.”
Much clearer.
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My question is: Since there are quite a few government workers, is DOGE going to hire people to read these emails?
Let's say there is 1,000,000 federal workers. 100 people read their emails. They can read one every 2 minutes. 30/hr. 240/day.
To go through just one week emails would be 42 days. And now they are 6 weeks behind. LOL
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/24/musk-email-government-confusion/
Trump administration tells agencies they can ignore Musk order on email reply
The Office of Personnel Management told HR officials that employees wouldn’t be let go for not replying to an email asking what they did last week.
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But it will be noted…
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Well, at least we know what some were doing...
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/shocking-nsa-transgender-sex-chat-room-legitimized-as/
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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Well, at least we know what some were doing...
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/shocking-nsa-transgender-sex-chat-room-legitimized-as/
@Jolly said in What did you get done last week? Elon wants to know...:
Well, at least we know what some were doing...
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/shocking-nsa-transgender-sex-chat-room-legitimized-as/
In fairness, a lot of work hours have been spent on TNCR, sometimes discussing the same subject, albeit not in quite so much detail.
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Lectured Europeans about freedom and Western values.
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Voted with Russia and North Korea in the UN.
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Voted again with Russia and North Kore in the UN.
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Oops, I did it again!
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Finally achieved tumescence. Melania had a headache.
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