[OC] Here’s what federal employees are having to deal with on a Saturday night.
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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![[OC] Here’s what federal employees are having to deal with on a Saturday night.](https://meta.cdns.win/en/2025/02/OC-Heres-what-federal-employees-are-having-to-deal-with-860x372.webp)
DoD employees just received an email instructing them not to respond.
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last week I did:
* **REDACTED**
* **REDACTED**
* **REDACTED**
* **REDACTED**
* **REDACTED**
– Read email from OPM.
– Discussed with team about legitimacy of email.
– Documented my tasks for the last week.
– Selected several items from my task list to submit with this email.
– Sent list to manager for approval since you’re not in my chain of command.
* Worked on classified project
* Worked on classified project
* Worked on classified project
* Worked on classified project
* Wrote this email
Man
Person
Woman
Camera
TV
* Never
* Gonna
* Give
* You
* Up
It looks like they skipped hiring the Bobs and went straight to the source.
Damn, someone beat me to it!!!
As federal employees, we operate under strict guidelines regarding privacy, controlled unclassified information (CUI), and sensitive data. Even if the request explicitly says not to include classified information, we handle much more than just classified material—there are privacy concerns, CUI regulations, and other sensitive details that cannot simply be shared in an email with unknown recipients. Without clarity on who exactly ‘HR’ is and whether they’re cleared or authorized to receive this information, it isn’t safe or compliant to respond with a detailed account of our work. Our responsibility is to protect sensitive data at all levels, not just classified information. So yes sending 5 bullets is a big deal because OPM is NOT in our agency.. theres rules in place against this. The federal government is not some start up… then to send it on a saturday with a monday deadline, what about those on leave?
Now seems like a really good time to send phishing emails to the federal government. China and North Korea could have nuclear access in a week if they just convince a few terrified federal employees that they need to enter their password at this SuPeR SeCuRe OPM website.
Didn’t he do this exact same thing when he bought Twitter?
Here is your email response 😂😂
1) I did a lot.
2) I did the very best things.
3)No one ever in the history of the world has done things like I did.
4) Everyone says I did the best things.
5) So many beautiful, beautiful things it’s unbelievable. No one thought I could do those things, but I did them when no one thought it could be done.
VA worker here. I’m on leave and having a colonoscopy tomorrow afternoon. I’m not scheduled back to work until Tuesday at 1130pm.
So I’m fired?
Why are you even looking at work email on a Saturday night?
Last week I did
– Your mom.
– Your dad.
– Your brother.
– Your sister.
– Your mom again, but with the lights off this time cause she’s ugly and nobody wants to see that.
What if you’re on leave or TDY until after Monday 23:59 EST? Are you just fucked?
rip to those on leave (sick, parental, pto, etc)
lol OPM has no authority to demand anything from other agencies. Also I thought musk worked for DOGE/USDS? Why is he directing anything at OPM?
This is a rhetorical question of course, it’s because all of this is illegal and he’s a Nazi.
You literally would be fired for responding to that at any company with decent cybersecurity. Who’s the sender? Why am I giving them confidential information?
This is a direct violation of CUI but that idiot doesn’t even know what that means.
Yes a lot of people have to do this at their jobs.
The difference is they send the report to THEIR SUPERVISOR. Not to a billionaire who threatens to fire them over nothing. Musk doesn’t even work for the government.
If you are sick Monday or on vacation and can’t respond you are just fired?
Guess the federal employee
– Golfed 6 times
– Posted nonsense on social media
– Went to a NASCAR race
– Pooped in diaper
– Blamed stuff on Biden
Legit, this looks like the phishing tests I get as a special ed teacher, and I’m not even a fucking federal employee.
Hmmm that report as phishing button look so easy to press accidentally. It would be a shame if 20-30 people all reported the emails as phishing
Report it for phishing
So you’re saying that I can respond to that email address and gum up their systrem?
How are they going to verify what 1000s of people did? Maybe plug it into some sort of AI, but as long as you use AI buzz words you should be fine, right?
So … three million federal employees are going to be taking, let’s say, fifteen minutes to write up a summary of their work for the week (750,000 work hours) and emailing them to OPM, a federal department that just recently fired a significant portion of their own staff. I assume remaining OPM staff will then have to read, evaluate and then summarize and report on those three million summaries (probably another 750,000 work hours). Someone somewhere is going to be reading those reports and deciding what to do with them, so more work hours spent.
Those initial summaries are also going to the employee’s supervisors and managers, who will have to take the time to perform their own follow-up process on them. It’ll be relatively quick, because they’ll already have an idea of what their staff is doing, since they presumably assigned those duties to their staff in the first place.
So at the very least, there will have been 1.5 million work hours spent on this exercise, in the name of rooting out inefficiency.
Maybe I’m missing something here. But this doesn’t seem terribly efficient.
This is easy. I only work during work hours, so I would answer it on Monday, not by Monday. We are not their slaves. You only get my time when you pay me for it.
Mark as phishing
The bulk of the federal Budget goes to corporate profits.
Interesting that there’s all this attention on federal workers when federal workers account for a tiny fraction of the budget and are a cost savings compared to contractor counterparts.
If they really wanted to reduce the budget they’d go after price gouging and corporate profits.
For all non-exempt employees, this counts as overtime and 1 on-call shift as they are assigned a task with a deadline.
Musk just cost the US millions of dollars.
* Monday: hung over, answered a metric shit-ton of emails
* Tuesday: endless unproductive mandatory meetings
* Wednesday: stuff you wouldn’t understand because you’re an uneducated 20 year-old
* Thursday: more stuff beyond your pay grade (and, really? you’re getting paid???)
* Friday: not crippling the federal government while wasting half the day dealing with your inane email
I’m not checking emails on the weekend.
So far their displayed level of technical competence makes me wonder if they are protected against a zip bomb.
They are not evaluating work efficiency they are evaluating obedience
1. Listened to a bunch of MAGAt cry about leopards eating their faces.
2. Laughed my ass of about MAGAts having their faces eaten by the leopards.
3. Performed my duties after opening emails every hour to see if I still have a job because a bunch of MAGAts voted to allow this to happen to the country.
4. Stressed out about possibly losing my job while performing my assigned tasks because a bunch of losers voted to “own the libs” when they were warned about face eating leopards.
5. Answered this email on a weekend because a Putin loving, white supremist billionaire and his bankrupt at every turn orange puppet thinks the people keeping the government open and moving forward aren’t allowed to have a life outside of work…all while watching MAGAts are getting their faces eaten by the leopards.
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I would just report the email to my IT department as a phishing attempt.
I would respond and enter the most top secret and personal information as possible. If I got my period at work, I would say something like I only got up twice to change my tampons. I would put down that I went potty three times, etc. I worked for a law firm that wanted to examine our timesheets because we bill in six minute increments. One of the guys I worked with was so appalled that we had to justify what we did down to six minutes so he listed stuff like, “Took a shit.” and other such things.
I’m a physician.
Last week I was on service 24/7 in the ICU. I had conversations with dying patients and their families about end of life care. I admitted, stabilized, and discharged several patients from the ICU including one veteran who had been in our ICU for THREE MONTHS and who we weren’t sure would survive. I also supervised and taught 3 residents, was the manager of 29 direct and way more indirect reports, oversaw the clinical operations for my entire service, attended like 18 hours of meetings, gave an educational lecture, spent many hours strategizing and completing inane required tasks with hours-long turnaround times in order to comply with executive orders, etc etc etc
This shit is just insulting. Note that it is an external email too.
*Firemen begin starting fires*
Rule one of dealing with HR, only reply to to emails when you are on the clock.
who even checks their email on saturday night??
Wait why doesn’t the government know what it’s employees are doing? It seems like you only send this out to employees you suspect aren’t doing anything.
“What did you do last week?”
So informal and creepy.
Into the -> spam folder
Notice that it doesn’t say failure to respond will be taken as a resignation
I’m not a federal employee, but I sent an email anyway. I figure we should all respond with our list. Or with whatever amusing thing we want, so we can waste the time of the few employees that DOGE has. It’ll take a decade to get through the millions of emails. Might even break their server.