Summary

A federal employee revealed that Elon Musk’s DOGE conducted 15-minute interviews where staff had to “justify their existence” to “college freshers.”

After Musk’s visit, he called for a 50% agency cut, with the bottom 30% of performers facing layoffs.

Supervisors must now submit justification forms for employees.

The speaker also claimed Musk, his “wife,” and child are living inside the agency.

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    The speaker also claimed Musk, his “wife,” and child are living inside the agency.

    The richest man on the planet and he’s constantly acting like a homeless squatter.

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    If anyone has ever worked for a bad company where McKinsey or Deloitte comes in, this is what it’s like.

    A bunch of dumb know-it-alls come in, “uncover” a bunch of already documented stuff that everyone already knows about, some to stupid conclusion based upon data with no context, them they give terrible advice to the dumb person and hired them, and that dumb person was probably already to blame for many of the problems that needed fixing.

    The consultant’s goal is usually never to fix organization. Their goal is to profit of selling people a perceived fix, and to add a big brand name to their CV.

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      The goal for management is to pass the blame on to consultants. “We” didn’t make this choice, the consultant did.

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      That’s exactly why I kept telling people to stop promoting Pete Buttigeig as if he was this great guy. He was a McKinsey lawyer. Just because you’re gay and a Democrat does not in any way mean you’re a good person. But somehow that was the reasoning people operated under.

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        Pete wasn’t a lawyer and left that place after 2.5 years. A lot of people take a job there after college because working with a lot of different companies sounds cool. Then you get in and realize that place sucks.

        The ones who leave aren’t the people you worry about. You worry about the assholes who like that place and strive to become a parter.

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    Just punch the dudes in the fucken face! Where is this perceived authority coming from!? They all look like Gen Z stereotypes bad. Like why would you give a fuck what those dudes say?

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      Seriously I would like to see ONE federal worker be brave and punch one of these pricks right in the god damned jaw. That person would immediately be a hero.

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      And could they PLEASE fucking record it and post it everywhere?

      Most of the world would love to see it.

      I’d love to see fElon punched the very most, though.

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      Musk claimed that a journalist just posting their names was committing a crime. Doing real harm to his little twerps would probably put you first in line for the Gulag

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    Musk’s efficiency theater hits new lows: federal staff grilled by interns in glorified speed-dating sessions to “justify existence.” That 50% cut? Pure corporate darwinism—sacrificing the “bottom” 30% to feed his messiah complex.

    Justification forms? Bureaucratic kabuki for supervisors moonlighting as HR inquisitors. And of course he’s camping in the office—a taxpayer-funded vanlife arc while his empire of hype unravels.

    Pro tip: Submit a form titled “Why Mars Needs Layoffs First” and watch the nepo-bots short-circuit.

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    I fucking hate this so very much. Running our government like the very worst caricature of douchebro asshattery in tech.

    As if these incel high schoolers know the first fucking thing about anything…

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    ‘fuck off’ would be my initial response, my follow-up response, and my closing statement.

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    “fresher’s” is a term in Indian English, not in the US.

    They’re “Freshmen”.

    While I’m sure DOGE is young assholes, this article strikes me as dubious.

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      Latin times isn’t a great source but there’s corroborating stories and video out there.

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      yep a lot of indians saw the fake indian burner accounts trend and decided its time we make scam conservative accounts , that indian in your dms or comments is probably someone you know pretending to be an indian to harass you, learning that shit was so dissapointing , and it wasnt a small trend either