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Here's a question.
There are thousands, if not tens of thousands, of federal employees who apparently have received this email.
Who the fuck is supposedly going over all the responses?
These days, it's pretty easy to automate the process of sending out those emails and checking out who did and didn't reply. But who's to say if those responses are even valid? Would Elon even be able to know if some of them just responded with a copy of their shopping list from last week? Or an AI-generated random word salad? Or one of those Nigerian Prince emails? If it were me, I'd make it fun -- I'd just respond with what appears to be gibberish until you realize that the first letter of each word spells out "FUCK YOU ELON" over and over and over. If I'm gonna get fired anyway, might as well enjoy it on the way out the door.
There's zero chance that these emails are being reviewed and used to making hiring and firing decisions. None. At all. They're probably not even being read. If they're planning on firing you, that decision has already been made. All this is doing is giving Musk a way to justify his own job by saying he's doing 'something', and using the responses as justification for doing what he was going to do anyway, regardless of the content.
Federal employees number in the millions