PM: The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has sent out a second email asking federal workers what they got done during the week, and a response is due on Monday by 11:59 pm as well as every Monday after that each week. more here
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Might as well ask ’em: What did you do on your Summer Fall Winter Spring vacation?
Musk commented at the time. “And if you have a pulse and two neurons, you could reply to an email.”
Imagine being a janitor:
Monday – I swept and mopped the entire building
Tuesday – I swept and mopped the entire building
Wednesday – I swept and mopped the entire building
Thursday – I swept and mopped the entire building
Friday – I unclogged the toilet in the 3rd floor ladies room – OMG!
Is that like two lines drawn in the sand? Oh, and poof just like that not a word on those files we were going to see other than excuses of why we haven’t.
At every job I have worked since I stopped punching a timeclock in a factory, I have been required to submit a project number, task and time spent on that task for every bit of time I worked. If I didn’t, I would be questioned on what it was that I was working on.
It seems like the people I pay should be expected to do the same, not just 5 bullet points for an entire week of work.
@Jethro – He maybe the most effective Fed employee.
Jethro – sounds like the janitor is contributing 1000% more than 95% of the rest of the bunch. And if that’s what you were hired to do, do a good job, look for opportunities to improve the process, and be proud of doing a good job.
I sent my email yesterday. Hunter, in the FAA we use something called Castle to record time spent at each location and task. Each day is accounted for including annual leave or holidays. Not every Fed agency uses this.
I will second Nidaho’s comment about Castle. And also before I retired from FAA maintenance, we recorded drive time, arrival and departure times, recorded when equip was removed, then certified and returned to service. Compiling a list of 5 for the work week should be easy-peasy.
When I worked for others in commercial interior design and then when I became self-employed, I rigorously kept tine sheets to the quarter hour (Now I understand it is to the 10 minutes). This is so the accounting department would know how to bill out the project AND more importantly, how much time was spent on design, working drawings, meetings with clients, meetings with contractors, site visits etcetra.
Was the project being under or over charges?, was the company making money? Lawyers, accountants, every professional must do this.
This is not uncommon. The company that I work for requires a email to my boss on Thursdays for work plans for the following week and on Friday what I accomplished the prior week. Part of my work plan was planning out work. That takes time ya know.
I never had to do that dumb shit because my bosses knew exactly where I was and what I was doing.
For 35 years I had to account for my time to the nearest 0.1 hours (6 minutes). The pretense was government contract accounting even though we almost never worked government projects.
Keep whining you GS weasels.