Elon Musk tells federal workers to justify their jobs: In an email with a subject line "What did you do last week?" Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency, asked federal government employees to justify their jobs.
Sent Saturday afternoon, Musk (or a DOGE underling) instructed workers to "please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager." He reminded them to "not send any classified information, links, or attachments." Deadline for submission is end of day today. Failure to respond, the email warns, may be grounds for termination.
Union representatives have started talking about lawsuits, but Musk maintains that "the bar is very low here" (which: true) and that the email "should take less than 5 mins to write" (also true). Meanwhile, specific agencies objected to the unorthodox protocol.
