By Valerie Volcovici. February 22, 2025. 8:36 PM EST.
Summary Musk says non-response by federal workers seen as resignation Emails sent to federal agencies demanding work summaries AFGE union vows to challenge unlawful terminations
By Valerie Volcovici. February 22, 2025. 8:36 PM EST.
Summary Musk says non-response by federal workers seen as resignation Emails sent to federal agencies demanding work summaries AFGE union vows to challenge unlawful terminations
A comment on /r/FedNews on Reddit says – and this sounds plausible to me – that the goal isn’t actually to get a summary of what workers did, but rather to get a user’s manager, as they are also told to CC: their manager.
According to the commenter, DOGE doesn’t have org charts for the federal government. Apparently that’s not centralized – but if they get an email where each person is sending that, they can extract the header information to build a chart.
I don’t know if that’s actually true – I have kind of a hard time believing that there are no org charts in a format that could be pretty-quickly centralized at least on a department level – but it’s at least plausible to me.
It’d also be a good example of why DOGE set up systems to do direct email access to all employees, to bypass the hierarchy, and it’d explain why they demand a response on very short order (like, they don’t want internal discussion in the organization prior to responses going out).
How can they have lists of all federal employee emails, but not their organization structure?
This is a smarter breakdown. I had a similar thought that this is a test to see how many people will conform to a random demand, basically fielding for which departments are fighting against his authority to know the areas to focus on.
CC: [fuckyou.list]
Have fun sorting this out.
If you get one of these emails you are here by required to forward it to every email address you know and sign the returning email addresses up for the most heinous spam campaigns you can find. Respond from each email address CCing 1000s of you “supervisors”.
Break their database.
You give them too much credit, goal is mass firing. They’ll fire everyone that doesn’t respond just to see if it matters.
Porque no los dos?