No offense intended, but anyone doing their work should be able to complete it in less than 15 minutes. All they will have to do is copy and paste from their work log.
Are you kidding me? It would take you just 15 minutes to list all the things you did in a whole week?
Work-related things? Yes. Since I have a list already made for my own records, a SUMMARIZATION IN BULLET POINTS would take mere minutes. Then again, I am smart and efficient.
Are you kidding me? It would take you just 15 minutes to list all the things you did in a whole week?
Work-related things? Yes. Since I have a list already made for my own records, a SUMMARIZATION IN BULLET POINTS would take mere minutes. Then again, I am smart and efficient.
Correct. And furthermore, this should be something that’s done on the employees own time to justify their employment.
If every federal employee spends an hour on this documentation, there will be close to a million working hours spent on this. Imagine thinking that you’re decreasing inefficiency by wasting a million hours.
No offense intended, but anyone doing their work should be able to complete it in less than 15 minutes. All they will have to do is copy and paste from their work log.
What the heck is a "work log"? Is that a real thing? I do my work, but I don't summarize it in a log as I do it?
No offense intended, but anyone doing their work should be able to complete it in less than 15 minutes. All they will have to do is copy and paste from their work log.
What part of "Elon Musk is not the boss of all federal government employees and has no business making this demand" don't you understand?
That has nothing to do with my comments. I was referring to the guy who said it would take an hour per person to accomplish it. I guess that is why you replied, but eliminated that to take my post out of context.
The whole email is suspect, and likely will not be implemented anyway. But to say it would take an hour per person is calling those asked to do this summary very stupid.
If it takes you only 5 min., then you probably don't do anything.
I have no problem giving weekly status reports. I just have a problem with Elon, who is NOT my boss or president, demanding it.
I am asked to give a brief summary of my daily plans for the week to my boss. It usually takes me about five minutes to type it up. Granted, it takes me longer to make a detailed plan before initiating the work, but the required form takes around 5 minutes every week. I am pretty sure it is the same for most government employees, who typically do repetitive work. Now the higher-ups might have more variety in their job, and some agencies might also have more variety, but the vast majority do the same monotonous work every week. For example, my wife has a script she has to read for every person she contacts for her government job. I hear her asking the same questions over and over. Total monotony, but still work, and it can be documented quickly.
Sure, but your boss is an expert in the same field as you, so they'll understand a pretty bare bones explanation. If you want to explain your activities to an outside auditor with no knowledge of your field, you're going to have to provide more description.
If I tell another person in my field that I did 2 PVIs, a CTI ablation, a BiV ICD implant, and a TTE/DCCV today, they'll easily understand exactly what my workload was like and whether I was busy or not. If I want to explain the same thing to a non-expert who wants to know whether I'm doing a reasonable amount of work, I'd need to provide a whole lot more explanation of exactly what all these things mean.
Presumably the same applies to anyone who works in an area that involves any kind of expertise. If you're being asked to justify your time, you need to provide enough information for the reader to actually understand exactly what you do and why it takes the amount of time it does. Otherwise your report doesn't have any value.
This holds government employees accountable to actually do work. I work as a contractor in the gov’t and have to file a monthly report detailing my work. If I didn’t have to file the report, I would take less initiative at my job and do the bare minimum. The civil servants in my program are lazy and waste a lot of taxpayer money- holding them accountable is a great thing to do
How does it hold them accountable? Who is reviewing the responses? How are they going to use an email about what every federal employee did this week to guide decisions? Tell me practically how that is going to happen.
All posters who see this as a win for accountability have dodged explaining how.
Work-related things? Yes. Since I have a list already made for my own records, a SUMMARIZATION IN BULLET POINTS would take mere minutes. Then again, I am smart and efficient.
Correct. And furthermore, this should be something that’s done on the employees own time to justify their employment.
Justify their employment?
I swear you idiots don’t understand how anything works.
sorry midwits, but Daddy's back in the White House and the belt is off
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Did you just refer to Trump as "Daddy"?
He wants his Daddy Trump to spank him with his belt. If Daddy doesn't pull his pants down, he will drop them himself. "Do me, Daddy, DO ME!" < "Poster boys for birth control."
I am asked to give a brief summary of my daily plans for the week to my boss. It usually takes me about five minutes to type it up. Granted, it takes me longer to make a detailed plan before initiating the work, but the required form takes around 5 minutes every week. I am pretty sure it is the same for most government employees, who typically do repetitive work. Now the higher-ups might have more variety in their job, and some agencies might also have more variety, but the vast majority do the same monotonous work every week. For example, my wife has a script she has to read for every person she contacts for her government job. I hear her asking the same questions over and over. Total monotony, but still work, and it can be documented quickly.
Sure, but your boss is an expert in the same field as you, so they'll understand a pretty bare bones explanation. If you want to explain your activities to an outside auditor with no knowledge of your field, you're going to have to provide more description.
If I tell another person in my field that I did 2 PVIs, a CTI ablation, a BiV ICD implant, and a TTE/DCCV today, they'll easily understand exactly what my workload was like and whether I was busy or not. If I want to explain the same thing to a non-expert who wants to know whether I'm doing a reasonable amount of work, I'd need to provide a whole lot more explanation of exactly what all these things mean.
Presumably the same applies to anyone who works in an area that involves any kind of expertise. If you're being asked to justify your time, you need to provide enough information for the reader to actually understand exactly what you do and why it takes the amount of time it does. Otherwise your report doesn't have any value.
Are you kidding me? It would take you just 15 minutes to list all the things you did in a whole week?
Work-related things? Yes. Since I have a list already made for my own records, a SUMMARIZATION IN BULLET POINTS would take mere minutes. Then again, I am smart and efficient.