People have been sharing their five achievements last week, after Elon Musk ordered federal employees to do just that – 21 favourites
You’ve probably seen the post by Elon Musk, asking federal employees to list their achievements from the previous week – insisting that failure to comply would be taken as their resignation.
In case you haven’t, feast your eyes on this.
The resignation threat didn’t find its way into the email that duly arrived, almost certainly because it wasn’t legal. Furthermore, the Pentagon, State Department and FBI were all amongst many government agencies that told their workers to ignore the order, and not to send anything to Musk’s unsecure address.
During a press conference with the French President, Emmanuel Macron, Trump told reporters the thinking behind Musk’s email request.
Trump on DOGE Email asking federal employees to list five things they did last week: A lot of people are not answering because they don’t even exist pic.twitter.com/O67IyYmDXi
— Acyn (@Acyn) February 24, 2025
“A lot of people are not answering because they don’t even exist.”
There’s no way they could know that, but we fully expect it to appear in the next round of DOGE propaganda, alongside some BS such as how Teslas make the workforce eight times as efficient.
Over on Bluesky, Dave Levitan showed people the content of Musk’s message.
And Aaron Fritschner took the opportunity to invite a little extra chaos into the mix.
It prompted some Bluesky users to provide ‘their five bullet points’. Here are some of the best.