Seems to me there's more to this than initially meets the eye.
Seems like there's a split at the cabinet level positions on elon/doge. With quite a few agencies being told to not respond, that tells me at least some people who have trumps ear know this is a bad way to go about things.
Seems to me like elon is going off half cocked on a lot of these doge measures and it's pissing people off, going from "if you don't do it it's effectively a resignation" to "it's just to see who responds" back to okay I'm gonna give you one more and you are getting shit canned this time for realizies I mean it guys".
These conflicting messages all make the president/his admin look disorganized and not serious (suprise suprise). When I'm getting emails from
[email protected] about this and then OPM comes out and says no, actually this is voluntary, followed by the person behind
[email protected] once again disagreeing with that.... not a good look for trump or elon.
Lastly I don't think anyone i know had a problem with providing 5 bullet points on what they did last week. It's the manner in which it's being done, why, and the utter lack on clarity of the purpose of it, if not as justification for trumped up discipline/conduct firings. No one is reading these (ALL 2 MILLION) it's being run thru an AI and some computer is going to decide who keeps thier job and who doesn't. The implications of that should concern everyone.