General Elon and Vivek to head Department of Goverment Efficiency (DOGE)
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Some mouth breather on reddit calculated how much it was gonna cost to respond and are complaining it's a waste of money, the jokes write themselves. Of course it's from a 16 day old account that totally isn't trying to stir shit up.
Estimated reply time of ten minutes. Wage and employment figures from the agency formerly known as the United States Digital Service.
Number of federal employees: 2,252,162
Average minutes spent replying: 10
Total minutes replying: 22,521,620
Total hours replying: 375,360
Total annual wages: $211,300,000,000
Annual wages per fed: $93,820.96
Hourly wages per fed: $45.99
Total cost of this bullshit: $17,263,071.90
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1iwak92/this_email_will_cost_taxpayers_at_least_17000000/
Twa's?
Landscapers properly can fill out their five bullets of productivity easier than most fed employees
It's an old management trick. Consultants and new managers used to use it just to aggravate people who are already unhappy. You would usually do it right before layoffs to see if it would push already unhappy people out the door. You'd be surprised at how effective it is.
In my line of work, we typically have daily scrum meetings. A 10-15 minute meeting where everyone on the team states what they did yesterday, what they plan to do today, and any blockers they have. A small amount of discussion may happen in response to that, but longer conversations occur outside of that meeting with only the people that need to be involved which is typically the person that spoke up about an issue and one or more senior engineers that can explain/show them what they need to know to get past their issue.
This is pretty much the industry standard. It helps less experienced team members ramp up faster as well as helping the project manager stay up to date regarding the status of their team so they can relay that to both up line management as well as cross team managers.
If you can't be bothered to state what you did the previous day and help your teammates while informing your manager, you won't be very valuable in my industry.
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Morning meetings among technical staff is very different. If it's forced it won't work but if it's small and organic and people find it useful it can become a work tradition and it's probably most helpful in building comradery. It also is a nice outlet to make people feel heard.
I'm not against what they are doing. There are clearly thousands of people in the federal government who do nothing. The key is you're not targeting a specific group or trouble spot. It's a blanket tactic casting a wide net to see how many you can get out the door passively. Places like IBM and Boeing were the masters of it back in the 90s.
This is ridiculous.
Musk set the trap so plainly.
Anyone could've seen it.
Comply with a simple request or complain.
And they chose to complain, highlighting the problem perfectly.
Musk set the trap so plainly.
Anyone could've seen it.
Comply with a simple request or complain.
And they chose to complain, highlighting the problem perfectly.
