Elon Musk's Power Trip: Demanding Work Reports from US Government Employees While Threatening Their Jobs

Guess who's playing Big Brother in the US federal government now? None other than tech billionaire Elon Musk, who's apparently decided that harassing millions of American workers is his new hobby.

I received another one of those damn emails last night. Yeah, that's right – Musk's government efficiency squad is now forcing us federal employees to list five tasks we completed last week. And get this – we're expected to send similar reports every Monday from now on. What's next, bathroom break timesheets?

This whole surveillance campaign is clearly Musk's ego trip. He claims he's hunting "ghost employees" in the government system, but let's be real – it's about power and control. The man who couldn't manage his own Twitter acquisition properly now wants to micromanage millions of career civil servants.

"We think some people in civil service are deceased, that's probably why they can't respond," Musk smugly declared at a cabinet meeting. Really? That's the assumption? Not that people are busy doing their actual jobs rather than filling out Musk's pointless reports?

Despite the Office of Personnel Management claiming these responses are "voluntary," Trump has made it clear – don't answer, and you might get fired. About a million of the 2.3 million federal workers responded to last week's email. I wonder how many did so out of fear rather than duty.

Meanwhile, this administration has already fired tens of thousands of recently hired or promoted federal employees and is preparing for massive staff reductions. It's becoming obvious this email nonsense isn't about efficiency – it's about justifying massive layoffs that were already planned.

When a tech billionaire with zero government experience gets to decide who's productive in public service, we've crossed a dangerous line. This isn't innovation – it's intimidation.

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