DOGE Sends Email to Federal Workers Requiring Work Justification: "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation"

How does this hold anyone accountable? People can make up anything they want to justify their job on a memo. Is Musk going to read millions of emails? Will his DOGE crew be reading them?

This is just a stupid game Musk can post about on his platform.

It’s a mixed bag really of what I could have written down.

For some reason, even though I was an environmental protection compliance inspector, I was also tasked with inspecting engineering controls for asbestos removal.

Once, I caught a guy making his non-English speaking workers remove asbestos pipe insulation ( the most friable kind) only wearing dust masks, like the useless cloth masks some people wore during Covid…. I fixed that.

Another more funny time, we were inspecting a creek contaminated with oil.

After driving around awhile we found a guy unloading waste oil into an underground storage tank. What alarmed us was that he had been disposing of waste oil in that UST for a year but had never had to pump it out.

The tank had settled. One end in sinking down, the vent line ripped off. The waste oil was just flowing out the ripped out vent line into the stream… we fixed that.

I did some chicken sh— things like make a contractor buy drills with a vacuum on it just to drill holes in transite to put up gutters on a building…..because you can’t just drill holes in transite….

And the time I stopped work because a worker wasn’t using glove bags and I asked to see his supervisor and ….what are the chances….it was my brother in law… ( I didn’t even know he was working anywhere near that facility)

I hope DOGE re-thinks some of what they are doing. I’m a conservative but a surgeons scalpel may be more useful than a chain saw here.

This whole thing is just stupid. Well I have no doubts there are government agencies that our little bloated and could deal with some fat trimming It should only be done after some analysis. You want to make sure whatever that agency is in charge of, and people rely on, isn't negatively impacted. It's also dumb to just shut down agencies or entire divisions. I can speak for my work where we have both overstaffed and understaffed divisions. Get rid of the overstaffed people and use the cost savings to hire for the understaffed positions.

Just slashing through people and claiming some big cost savings without actually seeing the impact is a low IQ move.

Knowing that anyone (DOGE, your manager, etc.) is making sure you aren’t doing nothing all week completely holds them accountable. If I were a civil servant and I had no one checking on what I’m up to, my only focus would be to make sure I’m well liked and look “important” for the sake of my job security. Where I work in the government, people are motivated by their political standing, not by innovation. It’s basically a popularity contest where anyone challenging the status quo is pushed out. Total disfunction. If anything, the threat of DOGE motivates lazy government employees to get their stuff together and have something tangible to show for their job, for the sake of their own self preservation. I voted Kamala but think DOGE is a good thing (based on my experience contracting for a government program and witnessing so much waste and disfunction)

In all likelihood the cost savings and minimal. Particular when it comes to slashing staff.

The DOGE site is vastly overestimating costs (like, giving the total value of a contract that only has 1 year -- so a small percent -- left).

Their goal is to "show" enough savings to justify the massive tax cuts that will mostly benefit the rich.

Real folks might get a little savings, but that will be eaten up by increased costs for some things like medical care, and a reduction in services for things many Americans love like National Parks.

You sound like a know-it-all lib that was probably just a waste of money when working for the government. Too bad you're not in government anymore or your ass would be fired by DOGE.

lol the brain drain would be crippling. The drooling red hat morons are by far the laziest people in the federal gov't. GOP Feds would have to spend the first 1 hour of the day being told what to do and how to think.

just because you suck and need to be monitored to work doesn't mean most people do.

to be clear, you aren't a gov't employee, you only working with gov't funding. You should know that contracting is largely dictated by the FAR this isn't a lot of wiggle room. I have my own issues with contracting (which is only one part of the gov't) but considering DOGE hasn't even mentioned that; I have doubts about their desire to make gov't more efficient. Musk just wants less oversight.

“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.”

You didn’t answer this at all. You just acted like all the employees work product is being monitored for the first time ever, by having to send a email into the ether, with no specifics.

What did you get done this week?

Trump is Jofferey Baratheon and Elon is Ramsay Bolton

If your job is on the line and you only spend 5 mins trying to save it, you are an idiot and should be fired.

I don't have time to read 5 pages. Some agencies sent out emails directing personnel not to respond to the HR@HRO/Doge email. Its good that they did because sending so much data to an unsecured server that has already been hacked could seriously compromise national security.

What do you mean? US was once a beacon for freedom and democracy. Now the Republican politicians are full of greed that they stand behind Trump who want to cooperate with dictators around the world and weaken the ties to democratic countries.

I did? News to me

Democracies like England where people are being arrested for posts on social medai vs the genocide in Gaza? Germany where it's even worse? Ukraine where elections have been canceled and political parties outlawed? Romania where the S Court annulled an election that came out with the "wrong" result?

We not only wrote up what projects we were working on, we had several meetings a week to go over every project.

It was because we were out of the office most of the time as federal regulators and there was sometimes conflict between the people we inspected and us.

It didn’t happen often, I was only physically threatened once and the guy backed down fast and wouldn’t even look at me when I accidentally ran into him at a gas station named Casey’s one night.

It depended on what department in the federal government you worked for. Sub-contractors don’t count in this debate, they were independent with entirely different rules.

You mean someone who works a job and gets paid? They won't read anything these workers submit. This is just low class clueless antics by the small man in charge.

Sure....musk is going to grade papers for the next year. Small small people.