Veterans Affairs Advises Employees To Reply To Insulting OPM Email
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One VA employee said they were "furious" to see leadership's advice that they justify their jobs to Elon Musk.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has advised employees to respond to the Office of Personnel Management’s insulting email to the federal workforce titled “What did you do last week?”
“I am informing you that the email is valid,” Chris Syrek, the VA’s new chief of staff, told agency workers in a Sunday night message viewed by HuffPost. (The bold was Syrek’s.)
He added, “In responding to the email, please do not send any classified, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), or personally identifiable information, links or attachments.”
OPM sent an email to the government’s more than 2 million federal workers on Saturday demanding they justify their jobs. “Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager,” the instructions read, sparking a wave of outrage across the workforce.
Elon Musk, the head of President Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, said on X, formerly Twitter, that any nonresponse would be considered a resignation. He gave a deadline of midnight Monday night.
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