Elon Musk sent an email to federal employees asking them to list the tasks they performed over the weekend. In a video, a woman, a federal employee, expressed concerns, saying, \”The feeling of absolute existential dread that I felt typing out a response to that email is something that I wish I could convey to everyone\” She added that these people had no expertise outside of tech and were taking away the careers of lifelong federal employees. Elon Musk shared a BBC report from 2023 about North Korea. The headline read, \”North Korea: Residents tell BBC of neighbours starving to death.\” Musk wrote, \”Out of touch with reality, to say the least,\” to hint at what the situation in a dictatorship was like. The Musk email, with the subject, \”What did you do last week?\”, sparked anxiety among employees and led to massive pushback for such measures from the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Earlier this week, Musk was at the centre of all attention at President Trump’s first Cabinet meeting of his second term. During the meeting, Musk explained that he sent the mail after Trump asked him to be \”more aggressive\” towards making the government institutions effective and efficient.
