Perhaps Tesla, SpaceX, X, and all of his other companies should send him the same email. No way he is getting anything done as their CEO while he is ripping and tearing through the federal government.
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I replaced the tremie pipes to address the side fumbling on my department's retro encabulator.
Replaced the tremie pipes with frampton valves in our encabulator's dint socket and got a 23% decrease in lateral frundling. Is yours the version 1.04a or 43?
Still on 1.04. I've been pestering my manager to upgrade to 1.04a for months now, but stuff moves slowly in the government. The day I no longer have to tighten the girdlesprings to synchronize the Magneto-reluctance fluctuation with the variance of the cardinal grammeters, I'll be a happy man.
Classy, rockin' the Retro Encabulator. Hoping to upgrade to the Turbo some time in the future?
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He sent this even to contractors. There is no authority to hire and fire contractors. This is ludicrous, and also highly illegal for federal civil servants. I plan on reporting this to the security office as spam immediately Monday morning.
Remember when Trump got rid of the White House pandemic office?
Because Trump was a great business man who knew how to save money.
Judging from the article, my suspicion is they are going to use the data to train AI, to eventually replace human workers. It is not to justify one's self to not be fired, it is to allow the AI to replace them.
Copy job posting. Paste into email body. Send.
My company of 60 people has us do this and the responses don't get read. I'm sure 90% of people use GPT to give their responses anyway.
Have fun with that Muskrat
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Can he explain his work without sunglasses this time?
Dear fElon,
After the daily struggle to keep this government running despite efforts to the contrary and repeated unmitigated budgetary damage, I currently lack the crayons and the spare time to properly school you on a description of my job; even at a level so high you could use it as a space elevator.
Please let me know if that's your goal, as we could realize a cost-savings for NASA. Otherwise, I can recommend some intro courses on forecasting and management that could get you a little more up to speed, and we can arrange a time to meet and talk afterwards.
Have a super day.
-Me
Let's start with you, bub.
More fuel for the inevitable lawsuits from all the people working for the largest non-profit org in the world. Hope they can make him personally responsible.
It's like watching Office Space happen in real time.
Oh, so that’s how he’s trying to run the country like a business! Sell everything off, and then move to a different one.
I also seriously doubt he’s smart enough to understand what many employees, such as scientists and engineers, actually do.
Unelected, immigrant traitor, in the process of selling your future.
To be clear, I have no problem with immigrants, but many of his conservative “constituents” do!
Explain to me, Orange Man. What value do you bring to the table?
Can you imagine working for this guy. I supervise a small team and would never micromanage this way without a really good reason for it. Who the fuck has time for this.
I'd send them the longest fucking email back detailing everything in painful detail of what I did last week. 99% being straight up fluff.
[Scene: The Oval Office. JD Vance, the Vice President of the United States, is seated at his desk. Pete Davidson, a reporter, enters the room with a notebook and recorder.]
Pete Davidson: So, Mr. Vice President, I've been looking into your role here in the White House. Can you tell me what you do?
JD Vance: [smirking] Well, let me tell you. I deal with the goddamn politicians so the lawyers don't have to! I have people skills... for people who are trying to get things done!
Pete Davidson: But... but isn't your job more about policy and-
JD Vance: [interrupting] Policy, schmolicy! The people want me to deal with the people, not just talk about them. And let's be real, I'm good at dealing with people. I've got charisma, I've got charm, and I've got a Twitter account that can turn anything into a meme!
Pete Davidson: [skeptical] Uh-huh... And what exactly do you mean by "dealing with the people"?
JD Vance: [leaning forward] I mean, I'm like a social media influencer for the Trump administration. I get to say whatever I want and watch it blow up on Twitter. It's like having my own reality TV show! The engineers are just there to document everything so everyone knows I'm not a total disaster.
Pete Davidson: [taken aback] Uh... okay, got it...
JD Vance: [grinning] And can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people who can't see the genius of my role?!