"What Did You Do Last Week?"—Employees Stunned by Sudden Resignation Threat
Washington (The Uttam Hindu): Elon Musk has been in discussions everywhere since Donald Trump became the President. Trump has made Musk the head of the Government Efficiency Department. He has the responsibility of cutting government expenditure and curbing wasteful expenditure. Elon Musk has fired thousands of employees. Now he has sent an email to millions of federal employees of America. These employees have to tell in 48 hours what they did to reduce wasteful expenditure last week?
Donald Trump wrote on X that as per the instructions of President Donald Trump, all federal employees will soon receive an email. In this, they have to tell what they did last week? Musk further wrote that not answering will be considered as resignation.
Shortly after Elon Musk's post, millions of federal employees received a three-line email. It said that reply to the email in five points about what you did last week? There was also an instruction to send a copy of the email to your manager. Employees have to reply by 11:59 pm on Monday night.
Donald Trump has fired thousands of employees in the first month of assuming office. Preparations are on to fire thousands more. Elon Musk has asked the officials of the government efficiency department to plan for large-scale cuts. Apart from this, Elon Musk has put a halt on grants worth trillions of dollars from USAID.
There is no official data available yet on the layoffs in America. But the Associated Press has counted thousands of employees affected by this. Thousands of employees of the Department of Veteran Affairs, Defense, Health and Human Services, Internal Revenue Service and National Park Service are affected by the layoffs. Elon Musk recently waved a chainsaw, a wood cutting machine, from the stage at a conference. This chainsaw was gifted to Musk by the President of Argentina. Musk said from the stage that this chainsaw is for bureaucracy. He also said that wasteful expenditure is prevalent everywhere in the US federal government.