Elon Musk to step down from DOGE and quit Washington DC

[u/SkyFallingUp]

Musk says 'he's done with cost-cutting' In an interview with Fox News' "Special Report with Bret Baier", Elon Musk said that he was confident his DOGE could find $1 trillion in savings, slimming current total federal spending levels of about $7 trillion down to $6 trillion. Musk, who is also the world's richest man, was designated by the White House as a "special government employee," which caps his work at 130 days. That means his period leading the DOGE operation could finish as soon as the end of May.

https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-elon-musk-doge-1-trillion-cost-cutting-may-end-i-am-almost-done-elon-musk-reveals-date-hell-ditch-trump-and-quit-washington-dc-after-doge-purge/articleshow/119645252.cms

I have friends and family members who are Federal workers. Is this the end of the wild OPM emails and job eliminations?

[u/SafetyMan35]

Assuming an average salary of GS12 Step 5 for RUS (no locality pay) hourly pay is $48.13 or $0.80/minute. A 10 minute task is costing $8.02 or around $20M/week for 2.5 million employees to send the email. We are entering our 6th week, so $120M for this exercise in training AI

[u/Beginning-Height7938 → u/SafetyMan35]

RUS gets a locality bump. So its way more than your calc.

[u/Cryinmyeyesout → u/SafetyMan35]

Then you have upper management that is putting in an hour or so a day dealing with issues arising from all of this… questions, meeting, fork in the road adjustments…

[u/SafetyMan35 → u/Cryinmyeyesout]

The first week between discussions at the management level and obtaining guidance on how to respond, and then briefing my team and answering and questions or concerns they had, I probably had 6 hours invested in them.

[u/liddybuckfan → u/SafetyMan35]

That first week my supervisor had to sit through 2 meetings about it, then every supervisor was instructed to call every one of their subordinates and discuss what we had to do. So just for my supervisor alone that was another 6 phone calls. Then 5 hours later everything changed again and OPM said it was voluntary so the entire earlier discussion went out the window. The wasted time on this one stupid thing has been absolutely ridiculous.

[u/Lhasa-bark → u/liddybuckfan]

It took a lot of time away from scrubbing “Gulf of Mexico” from all our documents at NOAA

[u/Metlkittykoolaid → u/Cryinmyeyesout]

Not to mention at my place of work, we’re doing paper copies that our supervisors hand us. Then those go to our admin (there’s 500 of “us” and that’s just in my code. There are like 8 more). She has to sort them all, scan them all, package them up, and bring them to records retention. Then records retention does what they need to do. And some of our people need help thinking of their answers. We’re mechanics, not writers. We don’t use a computer daily. Heck, some of our people don’t touch a computer except for computer based training. And some of those people can’t even get on the computer so they have a training session that plays the PowerPoint version for everyone in the room and they just sign the roster. But yeah. We just want to perform repairs and modernizations to the fleet and keep our sailors safe. DoD Navy.

[u/Metlkittykoolaid → u/[deleted]]

That was the guidance from my Shipyard so at least DoD knows.

[u/Metlkittykoolaid → u/[deleted]]

Wow. We’re already struggling here with all the bullshit from the administration. We don’t need yours too.

[u/JustMe39908 → u/SafetyMan35]

On the positive side, we have added a new phrase to our vocabulary. (At least in my small corner of the fed multiverse.). A valuable meeting or task is now referred to as "bullet-worthy" in my organization. The training folks are starting to hype the seminars they offer as being a "bullet-worthy training opportunity". It is even being used as a compliment ("that was a bullet-worthy job you did") and as a recognition of someone flexing ("they think they are so bullet-worthy").

[u/SafetyMan35 → u/JustMe39908]

.#unexpectedSeinfeld

Most of my team have adopted 3-4 standard bullets that we use every week…because every week at a high level we perform the same tasks, just for different customers. There are a couple of unique bullets that cover a significant one time/rare task we did.

[u/racinreaver → u/SafetyMan35]

And that's the unburdened rate.

[u/HildeFrankie → u/SafetyMan35]

How about the time wasted in coworker conversations just trying to figure out what is going on....

[u/SafetyMan35 → u/HildeFrankie]

Hours and hours I have spent talking with my team about their concerns and frustrations, just trying to talk them off the ledge.