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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    15 hours ago

    My wife just got one of those emails and it’s hilarious

    This email has been received from outside of DOl - Use caution before clicking on links, opening attachments, or responding.

    [EXTERNAL] What did you do last week?

    Please reply to this email with approx 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager

    Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments

    Deadline is this Monday at11:59pmEST.

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      12 hours ago

      Tell her to report it as phishing through her security department. Those are the type of emails you’re trained to report.

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      So if your entire job description is classified, which is pretty common, you’re fucked.

      This will be even worse than when he used the same strategy on Twitter.

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      14 hours ago

      this is insanity… so when will Americans finally implement trumpets desires and kick out this shitty immigrant back to wherever he came from?

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        14 hours ago

        — Copy of my other comment from this thread

        Word on the street is that if you don’t reply you’ll get fired.

        My wife just got one and sent me this right after

        Posted with her approval ofc