LAS: Federal Employees Need To Explain Their Work Or Be Fired

There’s some serious Liberal Apoplexy Syndrome going on, because Trump and Elon are requiring federal employees to show their work, you know, something that happens in the private sector. Employees have to actually show that they are doing something. You can bet at Musk owned business employees cannot just sit around and lollygag while being paid

Musk says all federal employees need to explain their work immediately — or be let go

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.”

The email — sent with the subject line “What did you do last week?” just two hours after Musk’s post, and shared with POLITICO — asks employees to please reply with “approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and CC your manager.”

It instructs employees to not send any classified information. The deadline for response: end of day Monday, just over two days hours from when it was sent. The email did not include any threats for punishment for those who don’t respond.

It’s unclear what legal authority, if any, Musk is relying on.

Perhaps Politico could have asked? You can bet Politico employees must show their work. Federal employees must do the same. Democrats and their Comrades in the media surely do not want to die on the hill of federal employees not having to show that they actually worked, right? That surely won’t go over well with the American people. It’s easy

1. Sold 5 cars
2. Made 45 calls
3. Sent a lot of emails and text messages to customers
4. Sent out birthday cards and thank you letters
5. Finished the new online training class
6. Figured out a way to get another rep’s customers phone to work with Android Auto
7. Told another how to use XM Radio with Apple Carplay, which sealed her deal
8. Got another’s minivan set up with Firestick for the media player and their BT headsets

Not hard, right? Oh, wait, I broke the requirement with more than 5. And there were more, like the customers who didn’t purchase (a 530 with multiple derogatories for bad payment on two leases goes nowhere)

Michael Fallings, an attorney specializing in federal employment law, told POLITICO the actions Musk described in the post would be illegal.

“I don’t believe it would be legal, and I don’t think he really understands right now how he will even do what he’s threatened to do,” Fallings said.

Requiring federal employees to show they are actually working is illegal? Would love to see that law.

Dissent from Democratic lawmakers has already started pouring in, calling for employees to reject the move from Musk. Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) said Musk has “no authority” to do what he’s claiming. “This is a good opportunity for mass civil disobedience,” Casten wrote on X.

He wants federal employees to protest having to do their jobs and prove that they work? Really?

@SeanCasten when I was a Chicago police offficer, submitted a daily activity report at the end of my shift.

It wasn’t a big deal. Why are you against accountability?

— Keith Lutz-Political Reporter (@LutzTheReporter) February 22, 2025

As the employer of federal employees, as a person who’s earnings go to paying their salaries, I’d like to know what I’m paying for.

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