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1.I slept until noon,

2.Went swimming in the Atlantic

3.Enjoyed a double Manhattan

4.Went Hang-gliding in Florida

Oh, and

5.I celebrated 15 years of retirement from the Federal Government.

(Thank God I don't have to put up with this nonsense. My heart goes out to current Federal employees. You didn't sign up for this.)

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The responses that my FAA husband and his co-workers were floating around had him in stitches earlier. I'm so glad they are finding a little reason to laugh through all of this insanity. Thanks for sharing! 💙

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All fabulous, but the voodoo doll one sent me over the edge.

True story: I once had a micromanager who insisted I do something similar. I sent the same thing word for word for weeks until she finally caught on. Yep, just never bothered reading them too deeply. 🙄

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I’m still laughing at the voodoo doll one! 🤣🤣🤣

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That one was hilarious. I also loved the Ghostbusters reference one.

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Yeah, I'm wondering how carefully the responses are going to be read. I loved the "voodoo" response as well.

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I’m guessing creativity won’t count for much.

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This is great! It has my creative juices flowing. Call it the NoMoEloNazi voodoo doll! Youth and Seniors can make them to offset funding cuts to school lunches and Medicare.

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The tactic is bullshit and demeaning in corporate America.

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He may be an out of touch, Depraved, Egomaniac with bad leadership skills.

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Same! I’m loving the replies

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If my boss didn't ask at least he times, the last one in writing, I didn't do it. They were always stupid requests.

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Wow, how shockingly disrespectful is it to presume to question people about what they have achieved in the week in that way. I love the responses you shared AG - I suggest another option could be “Monday: went to work and did my job; Tuesday: went to work and did my job; Wednesday: went to work and did my job; Thursday: went to work and did my job; and Friday: went to work and did my job. Strikes me that fulfils the inane criteria with some inane responses. Alternately add “better than anyone has ever done their job ever in the history of America” after every reference to “my job”. I guess Mr Musk’s answer to the same question would be: Monday: thought about screwing up the federal government; Tuesday: screwed up the federal government; Wednesday: screwed up the federal government some more; Thursday; realised screwing up the federal government was a dumb ass thing to do; Friday: spent the day trying to undo all the damage done Monday through Thursday.

Keep up the good work AG and stay strong ‘federal folk’

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Musk did exactly the same thing at Twitter soon after he took over.

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Seems on brand since he bought and paid for both Twitter and the US government.

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So worthless.

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Must be thinking two wrongs make a right then 😉

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It makes me wish I had a government job, because that letter would be SO much fun to write.

As it is, I'm a freelance writer, so all I really have is this big mouth and the ability to channel its opinions through my fingertips.

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I am not a government employee and I sent in a list of things I did last week.

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We can do that?

My list is so damn long it's crazy.

It does not, however, include taking bribes, creating a slush fund, directing money toward my golf course, canceling contracts with other companies and signing myself up to replace their services, flashing a Nazi salute, making Nazi jokes, encouraging neo-Nazis to win the German election, lying about how much I've "saved" the country, ignored my 13th child's existence, refused to find out what the emergency is with one of my other 12 kids, or anything else crooked.

I guess that makes me a bad American

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You left out wearing my kid (don''t know which number I have so many) around my neck like a shield to avoid being attacked.

Sheesh...so unpatriotic.😉

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Thought we were supposed to "live with it"

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Damn Darklady, double damn!

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It has been two hours and the email hasn't bounced yet.

Of course you are letting musk have your email. I don't happen to care.

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Thank you.

I am guessing we should use throw-away accounts for this. Mine would be lucky to make it through any spam filters being used (assuming they're using spam filters).

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Just like the ice hot line the plan is to break the email server. Multiple suggestion was 5 dick pics from different angles since it would be a bigger file to store 🤣

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I write about porn and sex. I've got plenty of fun photos I could share.

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That email is public. I bet you could send that list, which is quite good. Maybe just like all the stupid tip lines we should send lists of grock to muck.

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Yeah, put a stamp on that ! Send !

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Hey, me too. Most of mine were related to watching anti-fascist videos, defending democracy and standing up to bullies. It was fun.

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Excellent

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I sent in some of my favorite emojis - 💩🪠🚽✈️🛩😡🤮🖕👅👁☠️💀💥😵🧨, you know ... stuff like that. 😃

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You can write a letter and send it to: hr@opm.gov

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Musk doesn't pay taxes. So I can only assume OPM stands for Other People's Money.

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Despite what some people think, government employees are as funny and insightful as everyone else.

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I’m not a government employee and I sent one in

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Find out the email address to send a response to and "have at it"!

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All you need, I bet✌️😃

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Who is going to be tasked with evaluating the responses? How could anyone possibly evaluate the quality of work from these individuals if they have no idea what they are supposed to be doing?

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It’s meant to instill fear and to control.

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Exactly. And spies.

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Yeah, and it totally backfired. LMAO.

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They will be fed into AI and/or it’s a tactic for distracting us all why there’s something more sinister going on

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“Big Balls” , who else?

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The HHS guidance said, "Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly." I guess it's referring to the fact that Musk was born overseas?

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Actually, you could probably compile all the responses into a book. It would be a best seller. We could all do with a decent laugh during these dark times.

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It would be the best seller, it would be the biggliest Best seller, no one would have a best seller better than this best seller. 🤣

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🤣🤣🤣

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Let's do it! Make it a fundraiser for Unionizing Tesla workers.

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Include all the people he fired at Twitter and his other business.

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Just WHO could think he's a good businessperson? The Tesla truck is a POS! Even Musk admitted it was a failure.

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I had the same idea for making a book when I read these responses.

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First of all the email appears to be from that original fake opm email created by the original doge hackers. Second of all, they are not in most people’s chain of command even if legit. Third: I think it’s possible for a superior manager to give commands to employees of their own direct reports, but highly unusual and probably not ethical. OPM is not about giving direct orders, they are about personnel issues and management. In this case, vs providing support and housing HR and training, personnel processes, conflict resolution, pay, etc., they are not the ones to direct people in other departments with many different skillsets. Fourth: even if Musk and his doge are appointed, they are not confirmed by congress, therefore have no status whatsoever. And they are not OPM. So an employee’s workplan is none of their business. Lastly: I still want to know how they accessed federal computer systems while not being in an official capacity. Who gave them access? Others have said this is the biggest cyber security breach in the history of the government, and access was probably provided by employees. This is all meant to harass and create an adverse climate so people are miserable and quit. And that is illegal.

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I used to work for the IRS (1973-1981). If I still worked there, I wouldn't have responded to that email. If Musk fired me, I would have sued him as a private citizen who was harassing me. After all, he is supposedly an unpaid consultant to Dorito Face and should not have the authority of telling me what to do!

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Best post! Thanks for sharing.. it lifted my heart in this very heavy time 🙏

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Money doesn’t, and never will, buy respect and it never will! Musk may be the wealthiest man on earth but the wisest among us know a loser when they see one!

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That’s some good stuff!! The ketamine king( musky) can go f**k himself and I say that from the bottom of my American heart!! 🤷🏾‍♂️

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I sent this to a friend as a suggestion yesterday. That friend works for the government.

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I did xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, xxxxxxxxxx, xxxxxxxxxxxxx, xxxxxxxxxxxxx and xxxxxxxxxxxxxx. Unfortunately you don't have the requisite need to know those things.

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Brilliant !

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Love that response!!!

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Amazing! lol. Someone should email back.. “I’ll give you my list once you give us yours”

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They work for us. We are obliged to protect them as best as we can. (BTW, kida thought Congress could do something or .....)

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Freakin' congress is without leadership and is flailing around. Where is our Mitch McConnell, the person he'll bent on annihilating the opposition.

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I create excel applications that automatically email repetitive documents, forms, etc to over 1,000 different email accounts all the time.

Just google the code.

Create your email, send the dipshit 1,000 versions or more.

Get creative, throw the number count of each email sent.

Shut his server down.

Now that would be funny shit for the asshole!

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