Brutally contemptuous. No one would want to work under these conditions. Which of course is the idea: get people to quit. The short term cost will be dysfunctional government. The long term cost, irreplaceable loss of experience.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/us/politics/elon-musk-email-federal-employees.html?unlocked_article_code=1.y04.r3y6.M8nLIBmIk3b9&smid=url-share
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/us/politics/elon-musk-email-federal-employees.html?unlocked_article_code=1.y04.r3y6.M8nLIBmIk3b9&smid=url-share
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Last week I
1. Treated all fed workers like school kids
2. Played a supervillain with a chainsaw
3. Dealt with a new paternity lawsuit
4. Forced the Royal Society to consider my expulsion
5. Made new cuts to environmental grants
Please don't fire me.
- Elon