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His post on X said employees will receive an email “shortly” requesting to “understand what they got done last week.”

All federal government employees will have to share what they’ve been working on in the last week or face dismissal, Elon Musk said Saturday.

Musk posted on X that employees will be receiving an email “shortly” requesting to “understand what they got done last week.” A lack of response, Musk said, “will be taken as a resignation.” It’s unclear what legal authority, if any, Musk is relying on.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If you're afraid of their hollow scare tactics, just send a reply that says, "Communication received. Continuing work according to my job role as typical".

Remember that they can't legally justify these firings and likely won't pay you severance. This is a weak intimidation tactic, this is when the other guy in the online game starts by telling you to forfeit before the gave has started. Make them fire you so you can collect unemployment and have standing to sue (if the world doesn't collapse before next administration).

This is partially their insurance policy - same playbook as always, just accelerated. Like how trump 1 admin planned for tax cuts for wealthy to be paid by the poor when next person would be in office. Now they are just breaking everything and setting up grounds for historically unprecedented class action lawsuits for potential next person. If a decent person somehow did reclaim the presidency in '28, they'd be forced to acknowledge and allow the illegal firing, pay trillions in back pay and penalty restitution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

A reasonable judge would hold these billionaires liable to their last ~~penny~~ nickel