His post on X said employees will receive an email “shortly” requesting to “understand what they got done last week.”

All federal government employees will have to share what they’ve been working on in the last week or face dismissal, Elon Musk said Saturday.

Musk posted on X that employees will be receiving an email “shortly” requesting to “understand what they got done last week.” A lack of response, Musk said, “will be taken as a resignation.” It’s unclear what legal authority, if any, Musk is relying on.

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    20 hours ago

    It turns out, he can say “not responding to this email is a formal resignation” until he’s blue in the face, that doesn’t make it so. Ignoring the part where it’s not legal. He WILL be paying unemployment to all of them, and likely wrongful termination. Of course by “he” I mean “all of us” because it will be our tax dollars.