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Me, Sam Stein, here on Saturday night. I don't know why I do this to myself, but I couldn't pull myself away from the YouTube because some crazy shit's happening as usual on a weekend. Before we get into it, subscribe to the feed as always. So basically what's happened tonight is that Elon Musk has taken it up a notch. I didn't think it was possible, but Elon Musk has announced. Actually, this occurred about 2:45 this afternoon. He announced that he was going to be sending all federal employees an email and that in that email he was going to be asking them to list what they have done at work over the last week, which. Okay, but then it contained this line. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation, which is a lot like that. That seems extraordinary. And in fact, already we're seeing legal scholars question whether that' actually allowable. There are certain laws dictating how federal employees can resign or be fired, and seems like this might be in violation of that. Minor points. You know, you probably would want to think about that before sending the email, but, you know. Or before sending the tweet, but whatever. So I was kind of waiting around trying to figure out what was going to happen and Then this evening at like, I don't know, 5:00, the emails came out and the subject line was, what did you do last week? Like, literally, that's the subject line. What did you do last week? It came from the HR, opm.gov that's the office of Personal Management. And the body of the email says, hey. Please reply to this email with approximately five bullets of what you accomplished last week and CC your manager. Please do not send any classified information, links or attachments. Deadline is Monday at 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time. This is nuts. I just want to be clear. It's. It's nuts for a variety of reasons. Let's start with, like, the least offensive reason. It's a Saturday afternoon. I know Elon likes to work on the weekends. Hey, I'm here working on the weekends, too. But, like, legitimately, this is not an email to send on a Saturday afternoon. Just not. And then to give people a Monday deadline is, whatever, that's a day and a half, two days. But what if they're not working on Monday? What if someone is on vacation? What if they have extenuating circumstances, they don't check their email. That seems problematic if you're going to say, hey, failure to respond will result in your resignation or be considered, you know, resignation. I'm sure there's a fair number of the 2.2, whatever million federal employees who are not going to see the email. It just happens. Not everyone's going to catch it. People have lives that interfere. Okay, so that's 1, 2. And the most important one is you might have seen a small distinction between what Elon's tweet said and what the email said. His tweet said that if you don't respond, they would consider it resignation. The email said nothing. Nothing to that effect. Right. Like, there's nothing in the email that says, hey, if you don't respond, we're going to consider this your resignation. Now, obviously that's a problem because not everyone's on Twitter checking Elon's Twitter feedback. Which one is the policy? Honestly, which one is the policy here? Because if you didn't see Elon's Twitter feed and you just saw this email, you may say, ah, you know what, this is ridiculous. I'm not going to respond. What are they going to do? And they might consider an act of resignation. Now, I've emailed the White House to get a sense of which one actually is true, the email or the tweet. And as of 6:10pm on Saturday, I have not heard Anything back. I think at some point they're gonna have to, like, specify this for federal employees. This seems problematic, not just on a human level, but on a legal level. Like, probably need to have clear instructions to employees. I will note that the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. ed Martin, huge Doge Elon dude. He sent an email to his staff after Elon's email. It says, folks, Doge and Elon are doing great work. He actually said, we are happy to be participate. Idiot. Please respond to the HR email carefully with regard to confidentiality and other duties. Be general if you need to. If anyone gives you problems, I've got your back. You're good. See you Monday, Ed. Again, nothing in that email From Ed Martin, U.S. attorney for D.C. tells the employees that if they don't respond, it will be considered an act of resignation. That seems like not a minor detail. It seems like an important detail. Right, like, kind of matters, but maybe it doesn't.