Musk: Federal Workers Are Showing “Contempt”

Newsweek reports:

Elon Musk fumed on Monday evening—and issued a new ultimatum—after the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said government workers do not have to comply with an email demanding that they justify their jobs.  Musk raged on Monday evening, writing that “subject to the discretion of the President,” workers would be “given another chance” to send over details about what they did last week. “Failure to respond a second time will result in termination,” he wrote.

The new threat came after Musk wrote on X that his “email request was utterly trivial, as the standard for passing the test was to type some words and press send!” “Yet so many failed even that inane test, urged on in some cases by their managers,” he added. “Have you ever witnessed such INCOMPETENCE and CONTEMPT for how YOUR TAXES are being spent? Makes old Twitter look good. Didn’t think that was possible.”

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