The Trump Presidency 2.0
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Talking to folks at work the concern isn't justifying our jobs, but all important wording. What is too much or not enough? AI is crawling through the responses, if the AI doesn't like your reply does a human investigate? In short, what is the overall process and standards?
I have yet to speak to one person who is scared of providing bullets. What concerns every single one of us are all of the unknowns. Task? Check. Conditions? Check. Standards? Yeah, nah. We don't know the standards or how they (if they even exist) are applied. And one where the task is vague; "approx. 5 bullets." Is that 4-6? Why not say that? Is 3 okay because over halfway to 5? Is 7 too many? A bullet is a single sentence, what if we use two sentences per bullet?
This is why the 5 Bullets directive is dumb and causing concern. No standards, vague orders, no defined end state. Pretty much like a lot of things so far.
I have yet to speak to one person who is scared of providing bullets. What concerns every single one of us are all of the unknowns. Task? Check. Conditions? Check. Standards? Yeah, nah. We don't know the standards or how they (if they even exist) are applied. And one where the task is vague; "approx. 5 bullets." Is that 4-6? Why not say that? Is 3 okay because over halfway to 5? Is 7 too many? A bullet is a single sentence, what if we use two sentences per bullet?
This is why the 5 Bullets directive is dumb and causing concern. No standards, vague orders, no defined end state. Pretty much like a lot of things so far.
I overall agree with this one. The only thing I could think of is the previously posted missive from Elon- "We think that there is some amount of people that absolutely do nothing, don't answer emails at all AND there could be even be dead people on the rolls."
IF I was being the absolute most gracious I could be, I could hypothesize it's not about the content of the answers, but any answer at all.
If it takes 6 minutes to respond to an email and provide your bullets, you get moved off the list. If you don't reply at all, you go on another list- call it the "do you actually exist" list. Now, is there a follow on where the content is explored and then evaluated somewhow? Maybe, but right now, that's not communicated and people are making assumptions, and that's fair. I think the framing of, "They're going to evaluate my livelihood off of five bullets and some AI, and they're going to fire me because of the answers" is a bridge too far until that happens, but again- DOGE owns that assumption because they haven't explained it. Clinton fired 250K federal employees and was lauded for it, but he also involved Congress in those decisions.
To be super clear, until we know what the process is (it hasn't been explained), we will keep having these conversations, and I agree with the overall feeling of "what's going on".
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Its almost like an autistic billionaire tasked with identifying fraud, waste, and abuse with the desired end state of making the government more efficient has just wasted well over a hundred thousand man hours over a ruse.
Tens of thousands of man hours - countless loyal hard working employees have been thrown into a tailspin - now doomed to suffer uncertainty about the future of their current employment - division within the ranks
because NOW even folks that supported this effort 72 hours ago no longer support it at all...
"Lot of people in for a rude awakening and strong dose of reality"
It's as if the workers that occupy lowest rung of the federal ladder are the ones to blame for this dumpster fire.
THEY are the ones that need a rude awakening.
The poor fucking dude that has to get a security clearance just so he can do janitorial work in the headquarters building...
...that mother fucker needs a strong dose of reality
...because he has been part of this corrupt government for FAAAR too long bitches
What about that poor old lady in her late 50's that has been pouring over numbers in the comptrollers office for the last 15 years
...or that service disabled veteran driving a desk at range control that spends day in day out making sure that the E4 mafia is following safe range practices.
Those cocksuckers are finally getting their comeuppance.
Even the dipshit talk show hosts are making a go at badmouthing these shitty unreliable dishonest civil servants for not taking five short minutes out of their day to defend their career choices.
...because a rich bully wondered how many people are checking their email
Never mind - I should probably just eat my peas and prepare for this assholes next round of disruptive bullshit.
All hail President Musk.
Tens of thousands of man hours - countless loyal hard working employees have been thrown into a tailspin - now doomed to suffer uncertainty about the future of their current employment - division within the ranks
because NOW even folks that supported this effort 72 hours ago no longer support it at all...
"Lot of people in for a rude awakening and strong dose of reality"
It's as if the workers that occupy lowest rung of the federal ladder are the ones to blame for this dumpster fire.
THEY are the ones that need a rude awakening.
The poor fucking dude that has to get a security clearance just so he can do janitorial work in the headquarters building...
...that mother fucker needs a strong dose of reality
...because he has been part of this corrupt government for FAAAR too long bitches
What about that poor old lady in her late 50's that has been pouring over numbers in the comptrollers office for the last 15 years
...or that service disabled veteran driving a desk at range control that spends day in day out making sure that the E4 mafia is following safe range practices.
Those cocksuckers are finally getting their comeuppance.
Even the dipshit talk show hosts are making a go at badmouthing these shitty unreliable dishonest civil servants for not taking five short minutes out of their day to defend their career choices.
...because a rich bully wondered how many people are checking their email
Never mind - I should probably just eat my peas and prepare for this assholes next round of disruptive bullshit.
All hail President Musk.
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I have. As stated, it was to bring a a broader conversation about when we decide someone gets a position for "merit" versus a "who you know" job, seeing as that has been a big topic of contention with "DEI hires" not being qualified.
Again, nothing against Caine.
I agree with this take. I'm just as annoyed when #myside puts up people that don't meet basic qualifications as when the other side does it. I'd much rather get "we are hiring person x for yz reason unrelated to the job" than trying to bullshit up how they're super qualified.
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Anyways I think this horse is dead. I've gotta finish my five bullet points I may or may not be required to send. At least I have a computer to work off of, unlike all of our wage grade mechanics; fun times!
Honestly, I don't think you can have anything against RAIZIN, honestly. People in the AF (literally everyone that knows him or his service) are lining up to vouch for that dude. Pretty interesting.
To your bolded, 100% agree. We have jumped the shark on merit on both sides. Just tell me "He dosen't have bona fides we cared about previously, but I put him in this position for this reason."
As someone that managed email servers. I guaranfuckingtee, there's thousands of active accounts that belong to people that are no longer employed and dead. They just had to use AI to compare current rolls with active accounts.
But then that's not the digital equivalent of taking a shiny chainsaw, cutting away the chaff.
But then that's not the digital equivalent of taking a shiny chainsaw, cutting away the chaff.
His post on X, proves it was just a simple test.
Rather than reply to one post, I'll post a general "Addendum".
A fairly large number of us in the DoN never received the Fork and/ or Bullet email. Zero. DoN had to put out guidance to go to one of our gazillion internal (to the Navy) portals and update our contact info. My profile was populated with an email assigned to an older pre-FlankSpeed* account. I was also on a sick day yesterday.
I would have been on "get got" list for the two reasons above. Fortunately, OPM put out guidance yesterday deferring to individual agency chiefs on how/ when to reply.
Something I didn't know until I was in the office since I can't work from home. How many legit employees would be burned by those circumstances? Dunno. On hr@opm.gov paper I would be a "ghost employee" because I didn't reply to an email I never received brought on by conditions I never created...
* Flankspeed is a Navy version of what I believe to be a larger DoD IT environment migration.
(Why am I typing this at work, am I not a time wasting shitbag? Have you ever used eMASS and seen its refresh times? I have time to type.)
A fairly large number of us in the DoN never received the Fork and/ or Bullet email. Zero. DoN had to put out guidance to go to one of our gazillion internal (to the Navy) portals and update our contact info. My profile was populated with an email assigned to an older pre-FlankSpeed* account. I was also on a sick day yesterday.
I would have been on "get got" list for the two reasons above. Fortunately, OPM put out guidance yesterday deferring to individual agency chiefs on how/ when to reply.
Something I didn't know until I was in the office since I can't work from home. How many legit employees would be burned by those circumstances? Dunno. On hr@opm.gov paper I would be a "ghost employee" because I didn't reply to an email I never received brought on by conditions I never created...
* Flankspeed is a Navy version of what I believe to be a larger DoD IT environment migration.
(Why am I typing this at work, am I not a time wasting shitbag? Have you ever used eMASS and seen its refresh times? I have time to type.)
No. This is what happens when you have multiple system upgrades and multiple portals controlled by multiple orgs and agencies within the DoD. Fixing that would require probably a few hundred million dollars and manpower we don't have or can't fund (contractors).
Kind of why they should have run this through the DoD and its branches first.
But we're all lazy shitbag thieves too scared to get "real" jobs in the "real" world according to the broad narrative from many on the Right.
I don’t recall if it was auto populated or not. I know for a fact we were never told to update our email and in fact I still use my old email for certain support functions. Too many databases not talking to one another.
Let the domino's fall...
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Ladies and Gentlemen...Caine is nothing. He's a 3 Star that wrecked ISIS.
How about MacArthur's star from WWI became permanent when many others who held higher ranks reverted to Lieutenant Colonel...or how about this one. John "Blackjack" Pershing.
Teddy Roosevelt wanted to promote him to Colonel, he was a Captain.
Well Roosevelt nominated Pershing to Brigadier in 1906. And presidents seem to get what they want.
Pershing was appointed to lead the expedition against Pancho Villa, and then appointed commander of the AEF all over higher ranked and "qualified" individuals.
Being a COCOM Commander doesn't make someone a good CJCS. Being a COCOM Commander apparently makes shitty SECDEFs though.
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