the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Washington DC, Tech billionaire Elon Musk has issued a second warning to federal employees—either respond to an email outlining their accomplishments, or face termination.
In a statement on X (formerly Twitter), Musk clarified:
“Subject to the discretion of the President, they will be given another chance. Failure to respond a second time will result in termination.”
This directive, however, contradicts guidance from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which has stated that responding to the email is voluntary and failure to do so does not equate to resignation.
The Email Controversy: Musk vs. OPM
📩 On Saturday afternoon, an email—sent at Musk’s direction—was delivered to federal employees, asking them to list five accomplishments from the past week.
🚨 The email warned: Failure to respond by 11:59 p.m. Monday would be considered resignation.
🏛️ OPM Pushback: On Monday afternoon, OPM officials clarified that the email was not mandatory, contradicting Musk’s assertion.
“A non-response does not equate to a resignation.” – OPM
Agencies Push Back, Instruct Employees to Ignore the Email
Multiple federal agencies and departments instructed employees not to respond to Musk’s email, intensifying a turf war between agency leaders and Musk.
🚔 FBI Director Kash Patel told employees to pause any responses and that the FBI would coordinate all replies internally.
🛂 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent an email to its 250,000+ employees, stating:
“DHS management will respond on behalf of the Department and all its component offices. No individual reporting action is required at this time.”
Trump Defends Musk’s Employee Mandate
Despite agency resistance, President Trump backed Musk’s move, calling it “genius” and emphasizing the need for accountability in government.
“We’re trying to find out if people are working. If they don’t respond, maybe they don’t exist—or they’re not working.” – Trump
What’s Next?
This latest power struggle over federal workforce management highlights Musk’s increasing influence in reshaping government operations. The White House has yet to issue a formal response, but this clash raises legal and privacy concerns over federal employee oversight.
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Fire More Faster!
You apparently aren’t a federal worker.
So useless positions need to be kept just so they don’t get upset?
Just remember, the kids of the great Republican hope, Elon Musk, are all weirdo liberals who hate him.
Obviously Musk the Terminator is in charge and not the heads of the various government agencies who were just confirmed by Congress. I guess they should just dissolve all federal agencies, Congress and the Supreme Court since most seem to be bowing the knee to him and few are speaking out against him. Musk and Trump seem to forget that the federal government is not their privately owned company where they have the right to fire anyone they want on a whim. They have the lives of 360 million+ lives in their hands and appear to be calloused about the way they treat American citizens. What a shame. Well I guess you get what you vote for. The next few years will be interesting.
Same thing must happen in NJ!
LOL. This was such a massive fail for Musk, DOGE and Trump. They realized they didn’t have the authority to do this and dialed it back to “optional” at the last minute. They wasted thousands upon thousand of hours of valuable federal employee billable time because I can attest to the fact that all of the federal agencies spend a great deal of time figuring out if this was legal, how to implement it, briefing employees on content (tie it to the statutes they are authorized to work under), having employees write their bullets, having supervisors review bullets, etc. A big friggin waste…. Elon should be charge with theft of time from the government.
Did they honestly think people wouldn’t realize this was going to be a worthless AI exercise to identify groups of people to fire next. Was someone at DOGE going to review the 1.8 million responses they received (X5 bullet points) to hold federal workers accountable. Guaranteed they have no idea what my five bullets even mean. They are incompable of gauging the VALUE of someones work from 5 bullets. Even Red Hatters caught on that most federal employees have to report out their activities on a regular basis and, just like private industry, they have performance reviews at least twice a year. Can you imagine the five bullet points provided by the surgeons at the VA hospitals or the hazardous waste teams currently working through the California wildfire sites.
And these guys are supposed to be smart….LMAO.
After 4 years of democrats and brain dead Biden trying to burn the country to the ground, you’re going to criticize Trump one month in for attempting to cut govt waste? Democrats really are delusional.
If you think their real interest is in cutting waste you’re the one that’s delusional.
TDS
Rent Free
Hey, members of Congress, please provide the American public five things you’ve accomplished this week. If you don’t, maybe you should resign or maybe you should be “fired”. Interesting thought.
Post of the Day !
Buy these mistakes that they’re occurring, obviously they’re shooting from the hip
Buy? They’re? What?
One example is 18,000 FDA employees. 18,000! and they are among the smallest. That’s almost Ridgewood’s population. What can they POSSIBLY be needed for? How about 98,000 in Treasury? 4X our Village population. This government needs to be downsized WAY more than Musk and Trump have to date. Cut more, cut to the bone, cut INTO the bone. Then, cut my taxes.
Sorry, but the national debt per taxpayer is at $323,000k and climbing. So not any time soon.
This is just a continuation of the Government Dog and Pony show.
Expect little and you won’t be surprised.