No one cares if federal employees were asked to submit what they did last week. As a teacher, this is how I lived my life. Submit weekly lesson plans. The problem is, Elon wasn’t elected by anyone and has no business asking shit of federal employees. - ThreadSky

piperformissouri.bsky.social • 1 day ago

No one cares if federal employees were asked to submit what they did last week. As a teacher, this is how I lived my life. Submit weekly lesson plans.

The problem is, Elon wasn’t elected by anyone and has no business asking shit of federal employees.

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gerrydod.bsky.social•1 day ago

I will never forget about lesson plans. They were a bane to my otherwise love of teaching.

midlifeorphan.bsky.social•1 day ago

We care if the plan is to feed this data to AI and screw up agencies by misinterpreting this data and removing human oversight.

bakingfool.bsky.social•1 day ago

I agree.

drchellem.bsky.social•1 day ago

I care. It is not only a waste of time but a potential security issue to have to tell outside branches what they worked on. The FBI, CIA, and similar branches should not be giving weekly breakdowns of their active investigations. That anyone can email all of these people at once is alarming.

ameliabeeesq.bsky.social•1 day ago

And Musk doesn't care about the substance of the responses. He doesn't care what these employees actually do. It is to show power over them. It adds to the chaos and confusion. They have said they want to inflict trauma. Why mandate a return to the office only to fire people days later?

sakesis.bsky.social•1 day ago

I worked on results. I was never micromanaged like this.

trying-2b-zen.bsky.social•1 day ago

It was made more offensive by the fact that Elon wasn’t elected by anyone and has no business asking shit of federal employees

trying-2b-zen.bsky.social•1 day ago

The email demand was not to verify efficiency/productivity,it said the new administration thinks that you’re lazy and not doing anything which means they don’t appreciate or respect the work we do *and it was a reminder that the employees would/would be fired at anytime.

trying-2b-zen.bsky.social•1 day ago

Within DOJ-EOIR, but I expect in other branches of the government as well,we submit weekly+ biweekly reports.Our mission’s success is determined by specific metrics those reports address.

darbiedoo.bsky.social•1 day ago

They already report daily production and timesheets to thus supervisors. This is having millions of fed workers take 30 minutes every week off their tasks to make an email that wont be read.

Very much a waste of taxpayer dollars

bryceenglin.bsky.social•1 day ago

A key concern I have and I share this from the PhD Student perspective is a push to quantify over quality. The reality is that it is impossible to address quantity from a lens of efficiency when the scope of policy dictates how projects are qualified and accomplished.

handonthetiller.bsky.social•1 day ago

If only federal employees had had the understanding to refuse him, saying they didn’t report to him.

pippin77.bsky.social•1 day ago

And clearly has no clue what any of these people do at their jobs- firing nuclear monitors and bird flu researchers

mobrock.bsky.social•1 day ago

Actually the problem is, it isn’t within OPM’s authority to require responding to those GWES emails. Other federal agencies don’t answer to OPM. Federal employees of other federal agencies don’t answer to OPM. It’s illegal because OPM has no authority to require answering those emails.

drsmutt.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not to mention the amount of $$$ spent on salaries for 2 million people to draft a response. If the average fed makes $50 an hour and it takes an hour to draft that email. It cost the govt $100 million to make them jump for no reason.

lizzyrolfe.bsky.social•1 day ago

And he’s not going to read them, so have fun with it?

greenmoose99.bsky.social•1 day ago

It was harassment.

evelinanycgal.bsky.social•1 day ago

damondxb.bsky.social•1 day ago

None of Trump’s heads of departments were elected either.

Frankly government employees shouldn’t have to do anything at all.

proamfollower.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also they already do that with their bosses. As it should be.

scottyspielman.bsky.social•1 day ago

And he doesn't know shit about shit.

sirbustergoodoup.bsky.social•1 day ago

Let him treat his own people like school children. QUIT EMBARRASSING FEDERAL EMPLOYEES!

restofusparty.bsky.social•1 day ago

Correct this is like a random community member that does not have kids at the school wanting your lessons.

changeisneeded.bsky.social•1 day ago

If Musk was truly seeking inefficiency & ways to effectively eliminate it, it wouldn't matter if he was elected or not; people would be grateful. The problem is fascist Trump & fascist Musk's goal is to decrease expense, with NO concern for the well being of or harm to society.

sounddepartment.bsky.social•1 day ago

Musk should be asking the Pentagon what they’ve done.

mackenziegirl.bsky.social•1 day ago

Don’t comply! They don’t.

historyrhyme.bsky.social•1 day ago

How much taxpayer money is spent answering this dumb question? And, more to the point, why does Musk act like the money is coming out of his personal piggy bank?

pompe0.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well....sonce he considers himself a federal employee maybe the people should make him accountable.

stonefeathers.bsky.social•1 day ago

Every singly person needs to stop answering ANY EMAIL

EVERY
SINGLE
ONE

middlerage.bsky.social•1 day ago

Or of anyone actually…

plantsmandorstenia.bsky.social•1 day ago

Right, as a teacher Id have that done in 2 min, id just hate doing it for him

pyrr-noca.bsky.social•1 day ago

And a bunch of Federal employees are doing things that require security clearance that musk and his little crew don't have so they should not be looking at the responses or feeding them into AI. Creates a lot of stress for people to deal with this crap

vicmanz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Are members of congress considered federal employees? I think they should also be required to report to their constituents what they do each week.

tedybrown.bsky.social•1 day ago

If I was in their position I would just send in their job description

fedupnow1.bsky.social•1 day ago

I can't figure out how he gets in the buildings. I would lock him out until he brings daddy DT or a warrant.

davidicouldbewrong.bsky.social•1 day ago

I was never asked to submit what I had accomplished on a weekly basis. The results should speak for themselves. Musk is showboating. https://cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/02/i-pledge-allegiance-to-flag-of-united.html?m=1

tdefarge.bsky.social•1 day ago

This demand, as though it were some sort of novel, brilliant management move, simply showed everyone that he’s never been involved with any regular job ever… which is a particularly rough revelation about a guy who’s the CEO of a half dozen or so companies…??

neilfan12.bsky.social•1 day ago

I care.

Federal Employees under this new #Trump administration are being hounded, disparaged & treated unfairly (both in office & especially those who work at home).

Latest news is they have to report what they've done WEEKLY. 🙄

Totally unfair. They shouldn't be babied like this. Respect them!

realsrd2020.bsky.social•1 day ago

What infuriates me is they admit that nobody is really going to read these, they’re just accustoming the federal workforce to the whip and the chair. It’s real cartoon villain shit.

infinitedetritus.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s for AI. Gonna run the entire government with AI, based on this type of learning, along with every instruction manual in sight.

Somehow “woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head” is gonna end up as part of our next government, ruled by the benevolent AI overlords.

linzle.bsky.social•19 hours ago

My SIL got one. Worried my daughter, whose public health job was cut. He works in a federal prison. So. Easy. Carried a gun Monday thru Friday, didn’t have to shoot anyone.

teeklin.bsky.social•1 day ago

I care that they're being asked this & that you were being asked to waste your time submitting weekly lesson plans

Micromanaging employees is a terrible way to create successful environments and good workplaces

Management who relies on shit like this to measure progress are terrible at their jobs

boxerdogmom.bsky.social•1 day ago

If he knew anything about federal employees, he would know that they submit productivity reports weekly. They also get reviews on their work quarterly and annually.

realjohnbrown.bsky.social•1 day ago

Your analogy doesn't work because you've been trained to design lesson plans and it's one of your core job duties. Trump & Musk don't actually care what federal workers like me do every week. The point of Musk's email was to create a new justification to fire more of us and to make our lives hell.

penguinguynz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Managers supervise and exist for a reason. It’s up to them to determine the productivity of the workers.

leanne7908.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think he is requiring this again because agency heads defied him last time and he is bound and determined to show them who is boss.

heartbreak8765309.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump‘s government wants transparency. But we don’t have a clue what Elon is doing.
And Republicans are OK with this.

altacadia.bsky.social•1 day ago

And he has no idea what their job descriptions are to begin with, so WTF is his AI overlord planning to compare those lists to?

blandpotato.bsky.social•1 day ago

Plus, he spends more time tweeting than working (“working”?), so the hypocrisy of it was quite hysterical/infuriating

christophicus.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’m a teacher and would also resent having to submit weekly lesson plans (I have not had to since I was a beginning teacher).

jennreads.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also massive doubts that EM or his stooges will (1) Read or (2) Understand those lists.

Admin at schools do both with our lessons.

new2bluesky2.bsky.social•1 day ago

We didn't submit them to the CEO they were submitted to direct manager who wouldn't have thousands to review.

tkjames1963.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hey, fat ass, we elected Donald Trump in a landslide election and Donald Trump asked Elon to do this.

America stands with Trump! 🇺🇸

ghesthund.bsky.social•1 day ago

EXACTLY! We submit to our supervisors each week. Using secure email! Our supervisors are the ones that rate us and use a merit and rating system for our performance reviews.

bob652.bsky.social•1 day ago

Exactly....how can you get fired by someone you don't work for? If that's the case, can't someone fire Elon?

teacherwalkout2025.bsky.social•1 day ago

As teachers, this is the equivalent of being asked to submit lesson plans with zero free periods to the CEO of Coca-Cola or risk being fired.

democ56.bsky.social•1 day ago

Agree

bostonmikeoo7.bsky.social•1 day ago

Virtually all GOV Civvies I've asked already request/submit WARs (Weekly Action Reports). They say pompous muskrat has no business requesting one or asking for this activity to occur. They also say the problem is the military doesn't have the balls to tell him this is already S.O.P.. Spineless.

kimbrlyc.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Here's the real problem with this. He and many others are implying or even stating that federal employees are not held accountable. That is nonsense and not true. Federal employees are held accountable with monthly, quarterly and annual reviews.

booksnpie.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes, I did this, as well - submit weekly
lesson plans to the boss, the Principal. Not some lunatic who wanders in off the street. The only person who should be asking federal employees what they did is their supervisor and the department head.

heidinjoe.bsky.social•20 hours ago

weekly lesson plans.Are they not done before the week starts Either way I agree Elon is nasty and screwed up

mmcstl.bsky.social•1 day ago

Only the immediate supervisor, or your chain of command, should be asking for synopses of your week. Musk isn’t the head of any of these agencies and so has no authority to make the request.

bigtparker.bsky.social•1 day ago

23 years in the classroom.

Never submitted a lesson plan except for an annual evaluation.

Because I had a strong union that understood that it's not how professionals should be managed.

thecatismine2024.bsky.social•1 day ago

My husband resinged and retired even though he didn't want to. He was afraid that if he didn't, he'd lose his retirement after 28 years of service. It's ashamed he loved his job and the people he worked with. The last month had been hell with all the chaos. He's finally done and can move on.

nedinmo.bsky.social•18 hours ago

It's all a big game to him. His goal is to create chaos.

sarasnowflake.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not to mention that the VA logged everything I did all day and it makes you wonder🤔 my bosses never needed to ask what I was doing it because they could literally see all day, while I worked from home. FEM. fDT.

paul-streen.bsky.social•1 day ago

We (everyone in my department) had to do this at one of my jobs many years ago. We got extremely good at spewing bullshit, and after a couple of weeks management quit reading our reports because they were so boring and meaningless.

But it's such a stupid idea, and such a waste of everyone's time.

archaeomeg.bsky.social•1 day ago

Way to have empathy for federal employees. Do you really think every second of our time isn’t already accounted for and on dozens of reports?

jdohner.bsky.social•1 day ago

I agree completely with how it comes across to the public but our lessons plans were for the next week in case a substitute teacher had to take over our classroom. 🤷🏼‍♀️

floppergostic.bsky.social•1 day ago

Most employees' activities are already tracked in one way or another by their supervisors. And undergo an annual review. So *a* problem is he's unelected, unqualified, and lacks the authority to ask this, *and also* it's redundant and inefficient to have each individual employee send this info up.

land-snark.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's just an emotional shakedown.

freddiefan2.bsky.social•1 day ago

And yet it seems we all answer to Elon Musk now.

itsamini1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Civil workers already report this info to their managers

sipsavorswagger.bsky.social•1 day ago

The problem is everything they can disclose to an anonymous, unsigned email is already in their position, descriptions, all of which are publicly available.

There is no aspect in which this is equivalent to lesson plans, & that’s important because time is being taken away from serving the public.

retiredwhitelady.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also, his plan was to scrub it with AI to determine who would be fired. It was a Hunger Games demand.

what-do-u-want-now.bsky.social•1 day ago

I was a teacher and would have told anyone asking for my lesson plans where they could go and how to get there.

I don’t need a nanny.

balletgirl1980.bsky.social•1 day ago

Each agency also has an annual strategic plan with goals and deliverables, OIG audit reports, and department performance plans. We aren’t against accountability, we already do it. For agency heads and Congress on annual basis. This is how we get appropriations.

gregory-c-leavitt.bsky.social•1 day ago

The federal government is the latest business Elon has acquired and he feels entitled to ruin it.

rushgirl3.bsky.social•1 day ago

amardguru.bsky.social•1 day ago

Since most employees fill out timesheets and status reports, this new Doge bureaucracy is just introducing an inefficiency by adding a redundant process. Whoever is running this program should be prosecuted for waste and abuse of taxpayer money.

papachile.bsky.social•17 hours ago

5 things I did last week

Going to start one that has the following letters first in the 5 bullet points...(FUC...

-Fully engaged with the contractor

-Utilized statistics to understand methodology

-CUI

-Kept request for information database updated

-Understood statement of work

cincykid82.bsky.social•1 day ago

And he never submitted a lesson plan.

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