DOGE’s HR email is getting the ‘Bee Movie’ spam treatment

Over the weekend, Elon Musk surveyed his followers on X — the platform he spent $44 billion to buy — asking whether federal employees should be required to send his team an email with a list of five things they accomplished this week. With the yes votes totaling over 70%, Musk followed through. Federal employees received an email from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) this weekend, requesting their weekly list of accomplishments by 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday. “Consistent with [President Donald Trump’s] instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week,” Musk wrote on X. “Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.” With millions of employees across the federal government, the DOGE-operated email address and the contents of the email were bound to leak. As federal employees are threatened with losing their jobs, people on social media platforms like Reddit, TikTok, Threads, and Bluesky are calling on ... Read full article.