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Billionaire Elon Musk issued a stern warning that federal employees who don't respond to a second email asking them to list their weekly accomplishments will be fired in a post shared on his X account.
“The email request was utterly trivial, as the standard for passing the test was to type some words and press send!” Musk wrote. “Yet so many failed even that inane test, urged on in some cases by their managers.”
“Subject to the discretion of the President, they will be given another chance,” he added in a separate post. “Failure to respond a second time will result in termination.”
Musk, who is leading President Donald Trump's newly launched Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), previously claimed that the "email is a very basic pulse check," after a user claiming to be an Ex-Tesla employee said he had previously replied "sounds good, carry on" to a similar request.
The American Federation of Government Employees, however, disagreed.
“We believe that employees have no obligation to respond to this unlawful email absent other lawful direction,” said AFGE national president Everett Kelley, who represents 800,000 workers.
Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) was also critical of the email, referring to it as "the ultimate d**k boss move from Musk" in a post on her X account.
“I bet a lot of people have had an experience like this with a bad boss — there’s an email in your inbox on Saturday night saying, ‘Prove to me your worthiness by Monday or else.’ I’m on the side of the workers, not the billionaire a**hole bosses,” she wrote.