Musk defends work productivity report requirement amid cold shoulder from FBI’s Patel

Elon Musk is on a campaign to convince skeptics his plan for increasing federal productivity is a good idea.

After rolling out a policy where government employees are required to write up a weekly email report on what they accomplished during the previous seven days or else resign, Musk, who heads President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, faced pushback from several federal departments, including the FBI.

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[1LoverofGod]

DOD tells civilian workforce to ignore Elon Musk's request to report productivity​

The Department of Defense (DOD) told its civilian workforce to ignore billionaire and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Elon Musk’s request to report their productivity.

In a letter to DOD personnel, Darin S. Selnick, who is performing the duties of the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, provided guidance on how to handle Musk’s demand through the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

"DoD personnel may have received an email from OPM requesting information. The Department of Defense is responsible for reviewing the performance of its personnel and it will conduct any review in accordance with its own procedures," Selnick wrote. "When and if required, the Department will coordinate responses to the email you have received from OPM. For now, please pause any response to the OPM email titled, ‘What did you do last week.’"

DOD tells civilian workforce to ignore Elon Musk's request to report productivity

Pentagon officials told civilian employees to pause responses to the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) request to report five things they did last week to keep their jobs.

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[Tall Timbers]

Seems like a real silly and unproductive request by Musk.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

I forgot which unit I was in, but the Commander demanded this.
It took longer for us to do the report, print it, and slide it under his door than it did for him to throw them in the trash (mostly unread).
Terrible waste of time.
One of the best morale-destroyers I ever saw.

A civilian job I had made me do this and some related stuff, as well. It took me a half day to compile all the data, generate stats, etc. to submit. Meanwhile, work that needed to be done piled up.


There is no way one person, or even 100 or 1000 people at DOGE could read all the reports from everyone every week. Looks like a case of empire-building and job justification

If every servicemember and DoD civilian wrote a one-sentence report, "I did this stupid report," and emailed it via his or her chain of command, and every supervisor in the chain endorsed each report on the way up with a one-sentence forward, "I reviewed and approved this stupid report," it's possible (hopefully) the email server would crash

 

[Hol]

In some ways it will smoke out the at home ‘workers’ who are not reading their emails.

To me it wouldn’t be onerous. Where I worked we had an electronic timesheet where staff had to write in what they worked on daily M-F in 20-words or less. Those descriptions had to line up with contracts or grants we were funded under. When auditors came in I had to answer for staff time, purchases, travel or whatever the auditors wanted, going back years.

 

[Tall Timbers]

It's possible that there is no intention of reading the emails but to create justification to fire folks who don't respond. It would be a simple thing to fill a database with responders and non-responders. I imagine Trump probably wants to halve the Federal work force at the very least.

 

[TCC]

One thing that can be helpful in what no doubt will be ever evolving bizzare scenarios to come likely is that yes Trump made most of his money from real estate and development. But what might be deemed as a very long campaign for the presidency, The Apprentice ran for over a decade by the time Trump entered a bid for the white house. As one using reality TV to at least in part as a profound path into the very heart of America, from what we had seen of Trump as 45, he can at times operate in "reality-tv" like mode. Where some moves might be more in line with creating social drama to perhaps be mostly used to bring awareness to the surface too. Blessings.

 

[1LoverofGod]

Elon Musk explains his ‘What did you do last week’ email to federal workers — as Tulsi Gabbard is latest to tell staff to ignore it​

Elon Musk has further explained why he is demanding federal workers justify keeping their jobs — as newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard ordered her intelligence officers to ignore it.

The billionaire Tesla founder, who leads President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), said late Sunday that the controversial message asking workers to list five accomplishments from the past week or be fired was to see “who had a pulse and two working neurons.”

Musk doubled down Monday morning, warning that federal workers who do not send a list of their achievements by 11:59 p.m. would “soon be furthering their career elsewhere.”

Elon Musk explains his ‘What did you do last week’ email to federal workers — as Tulsi Gabbard is latest to tell staff to ignore it

Elon Musk has further explained why he is demanding federal workers justify keeping their jobs — as newly-confirmed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard ordered her officers to ignore it…

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[Baby Yoda]

It's possible that there is no intention of reading the emails but to create justification to fire folks who don't respond. It would be a simple thing to fill a database with responders and non-responders. I imagine Trump probably wants to halve the Federal work force at the very least.

It would be funny to hear if some of them did respond, but made up absurd bullet points for their activities. Just to see if anyone read them.

-- Walked and fed the animals
--Ordered more clown make up
--Booked appointments for sea monkeys
--Pushed all the buttons on the elevator panel
--Watered my plants