Imagine being an ambitious young worker trying to claw your way up the ladder in your career when suddenly, you get an email from the head honcho asking what you did last week. What an amazing opportunity! Yet for some reason, federal workers who are so important to the functioning of all our daily lives (sarcasm) are freaking out after getting an email like that from Elon Musk.
This email would be an opportunity to jump right over the heads of all the middle managers who are constantly stealing credit for your work. It would be a chance to show the big boss just how much value you add to the company and why you deserve a raise.
Granted, no one is getting a pay raise from Elon Musk’s email requesting five bullet points. He and President Trump later revealed that the email was a test to root out fraudulent federal jobs.
There could potentially be millions of fake federal jobs that are still receiving paychecks, so this email was really what Musk called a “pulse check.” Are you a real person and are you capable of writing five quick bullet points?
The responses to this email request from federal workers have been kind of strange to watch. Can you imagine freaking out over an email request from Elon Musk, who doesn’t even have the authority to fire anyone?
Here’s an in-depth analysis of the latest federal worker protesting about how she was terrified by receiving an email:
