
Will federal employees be fired if they don’t respond to Musk’s ‘What did you do last week?’
FirstpostElon Musk wants federal employees to recount what they ‘accomplished’ in the last week or face termination. A mass email with the subject line ‘What did you do last week?’ was sent to the workers over the weekend, sparking confusion among them as they were later told it was ‘voluntary’ “What did you do last week?” A mass email with this subject line has sent federal employees in the United States into a tizzy. However, later, he called the email asking for federal employees’ response “somewhat voluntary”. Elon Musk’s threat email On Saturday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted on X that “all federal employees” would soon “receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week” and warned that “failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.” Hours later, federal workers got an email from the Office of Personnel Management with the subject line “What did you do last week?” They were directed to respond with five examples of what they “accomplished” over the past seven days by 11:59 pm ET Monday. As per Newsweek, Social Security Administration workers were told that responding to OPM’s email was “voluntary” and that failure to respond would not lead to losing their jobs.
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