Elon Musk has demanded that all federal workers submit a report on what they achieved last week or face being let go, in a move that comes after President Trump asked him to be more aggressive.
🚨President Trump praises Elon Musk and tells him it’s time to get more aggressive: pic.twitter.com/Kpt3L9rNFG
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 22, 2025
Musk sent out the update on X, noting “Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.”
“Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation,” Elon added.
Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 22, 2025
Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.
He further noted that the response should take minutes to compile, indicating that any federal employee who can’t do it will be dealt with appropriately.
To be clear, the bar is very low here.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 23, 2025
An email with some bullet points that make any sense at all is acceptable!
Should take less than 5 mins to write. https://t.co/MTL1wyzaxd
This is a trivial task https://t.co/BTg3nJ5swi
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 23, 2025
Politico reports that the email has the subject line, “What did you do last week?” and demands that employees submit “approx. five bullets of what you accomplished last week and CC your manager.”
It’s literally the ‘What would you say it is you do here?’ meme come to life.
What exactly is it.. you would say you do here? pic.twitter.com/qoWVzH2DZl
— The SIGNIFICANT Podcast (@Significast) February 22, 2025
The message, sent to multiple government agencies, advises employees not to include classified information and outlines that they must respond by the end of Monday.
They did the meme from office space…
— ChefQuattro🧡🔥 (@cheffory73) February 22, 2025
“What would you say it is you do here” 🤣 pic.twitter.com/ta72E92OBD
It worked at Twitter…
Parag got nothing done.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 22, 2025
Parag was fired. https://t.co/69Je8rpYoM
In a further post, Elon has stated that the request is garnering good responses and that some people will be considered for promotions off the back of their reports.
A large number of good responses have been received already. These are the people who should be considered for promotion. https://t.co/Rc8sGBLemU
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 23, 2025
Leftists are calling it some sort of dictator-like threat, when in reality its what any person in any job has to do on a regular basis.
💯 https://t.co/mIizMPIyVs
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 23, 2025
Responding to this email would take less than 2 minutes for any truly productive person.
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) February 22, 2025
Why is this in any way controversial? pic.twitter.com/vm1Yig5bRi
Who’s gonna be the one to argue that workers don’t have to be productive???
— Common Sense Custodian (@Wall_St_Custo) February 22, 2025
Who is going to say the workers shouldn’t have to show the job they are doing???
I dare someone
These people, among many others:
I feel like this is not ok! Why are you assuming that all fed workers are not doing their job?!? You’re walking a fine line and then we won’t have any good people who will want to stay! Go to leadership if you’re going to do this!!!
— who knew (@yomama123765) February 22, 2025
Ridiculous! Who’s going to read tens of thousands of emails. How is this efficient?
— MM in Tennessee 🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@MMinTennessee) February 23, 2025
Well I’m sure that’s a great use of their time recalling everything they have accomplished as Trump golfs through his presidency.
— Sara Spector (@Miriam2626) February 22, 2025
You’ve got to stop belittling the employees. Now you’re going after them as though you think it’s an honorable way to treat people? It’s not becoming of anyone to bash an entire group because of a few. Many are loyal republicans.
— Release (@FOIAgirl) February 23, 2025
How about you send us a letter explaining what you got done for Tesla last week.
— DividendBoomer (@BoomerDivvies) February 22, 2025
And explain why that would entitle you to a $50B pay package.
A president who equates silence with resignation shows a blatant disregard for democratic institutions and workers' rights. This kind of authoritarian management is more reminiscent of autocratic regimes than a free democracy. Leading through fear instead of trust reveals a…
— gsohn (@gsohn) February 23, 2025
This is legitimately the dumbest thing I have ever seen in my life. The goal is government efficiency, but you’re going to pay somebody in OMB to read 2 million micromanagement emails? You have really jumped the shark.
— R Carpenter (@Rcarpen2) February 22, 2025
Cry harder lazy.
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