Confusion about the demand of musk that federal workers justify their work

The United States government workers faced generalized confusion on Monday after contradictory tips on the fulfillment of an order backed by Elon Musk to enumerate the work of their last week in an email or facial termination.

Only 48 hours after an email asking “What did you do last week?” It was sent, the office behind this clarified the voluntary responses, leaving the agencies to decide their approach.

But as this new orientation was shared with federal agencies, President Donald Trump weighed that the workers who did not meet Musk’s demand would be fired or “a kind of semi-employment.”

And later, Monday night, Musk reinforced the ultimatum, giving workers a final opportunity to respond.

The mail of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Saturday, instructed the recipients to respond with five examples of what they did in the last seven days, without revealing any classified information. The recipients were asked to respond to the end of Monday.

Musk, who leads the government efficiency department (Doge), said the lack of response would be taken as resignation.

The comments promoted the violent reaction, with the unions of federal workers and the activist groups that filed a demand in California to stop the email mandate.

The key agencies, including the departments of Defense, Health and Human Services (HHS), Justicia and the FBI, now led by Trump’s appointed, the employees registered to ignore the directive. This led to generalized uncertainty, with some workers receiving contradictory messages during the weekend.

The result was the generalized bewilderment, since federal workers faced uncertainty about their employment. Many also expressed confusion for the competitive guide that their respective agencies had given them.

“They are managing to go crazy,” said an employee who works under HHS to the BBC, and asked not to be appointed for fear of reprisals.

On Monday afternoon, OPM made a call with the Heads of Human Resources in federal agencies and said it depended on each entity to determine how they want to handle the directive that employees received on Saturday, according to CBS News, the US partner of the BBC.

The same afternoon, President Trump told White House journalists that Mr. Musk’s demand was a “genius” movement.

“There was a lot of genius to send it,” he said. “We are trying to find out if people are working and, therefore, we are sending a letter to people, tell us what they did last week. If people do not respond, it is very possible that there is no such person or them. ‘No I’m working. “

“And then, if you do not respond as if you were semi-covered or fired you because many people do not respond because they don’t even exist,” Trump said.

Musk said he was acting on the instructions of President Donald Trump.

“Subject to the president’s discretion, they will be given another chance,” he wrote in X, apparently referring to workers who did not respond to their demand at the end of Monday. “Not responding for the second time will result in termination.”

“The email application was completely trivial, since the standard to pass the test was to write some words and press send!” He said in another publication. “However, many failed even that inanidal evidence, urged in some cases by its managers. Has it ever witnessed such incompetence and contempt for how their taxes are spent?”