Federal employees spent Monday attempting to decide whether or not to reply to Elon Musk’s weekend email blast in which he threatened to fire them unless they could explain their work from the previous week.
Many federal employees were still unsure of how to respond to Musk’s request after a day of vague and frequently conflicting instructions. Others were warned not to comply, some were told to comply, and still others waited until late in the day for directives from the leaders of their agency.
President Donald Trump described Musk’s email demand as “ingenious” when speaking from the Oval Office on Monday afternoon. He also claimed that anyone who didn’t reply would be “semi-fired or fired.
The Office of Personnel Management then formally informed agencies that the response was voluntary and that failure to respond would “not equate to a resignation,” thus contradicting Trump’s own administration a few hours later.
Many federal employees were left in the dark just hours before Musk’s deadline of 11:59 p.m. Monday, as some agencies did not include that message in their employee guidelines.
According to our chief, it was required. OPM then declared it to be voluntary. One veteran of the Department of Veterans Affairs stated, “I guess Trump just told us it was mandatory again.” Nobody knows who should be listened to or who is in charge.
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