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You are not saying anything, just word salad. What is this great plan? You don't know what the plan is because nobody knows what the plan is. Since you believe gibberish like the Deep State, it is par for the course for you to believe fairy tales.

This is similar to Trump's health care plan. Which is no plan at all.

If it is "word salad", you should LOVE it based on your recent voting history.
 
So sanitized it is meaningless.
It's not meaningless when the boss (through a delegate in this case) asks you for it. In the example it shows a) the employee reads email and responds to it, b) the employee is involved in a number of endeavors and supporting them in various phases of their evolution, and c) on the surface it appears the employee is doing meaningful work, which is what POTUS and DOGE were attempting to gauge. As far as the sanitation, it's largely how my status reporting and the self-evaluation portion of my performance reviews were done for 34+ years, and how routine statusing across my entire industry was handled. It's extremely reasonable and customary.
 
The uproar over listing 5 things that you have done in the last week is hilarious. It’s a bare minimum test. It’s like a company asking for a cover letter when you apply for a job. They probably won’t even read the cover letter, they are testing if you will do the bare minimum. A high % of applicants don’t create a cover letter, even when asked. Those applicants get thrown out.

I have a weekly half hour meeting with my boss every Monday. We talk about what I did last week, and what I have planned for the week ahead. It keeps me accountable, and I get help where needed.

Things like this should not be looked as cumbersome. This should be pretty normal. If you can’t respond to that email quickly, and with some details of your prior week, you probably didn’t do much last week.
As I stated elsewhere, over 1,000,000 Federal employees as of noonish Tues have responded to the directive.

How many do you think have abandoned their Federal job ?
 
The reporters who are showing up to work every day and doing their jobs writing articles about it/making news videos in support of the government employees really take the cake for me. I mean, they have the opportunity for severance pay and plenty of time to find work in the private sector.
Brandon and his people used to trumpet that there about 7,000,000 million open jobs in the USA !
 
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One of my friends asked me why they would not all take 8 months pay and go find a new job. Well, you have to be willing to take a chance on yourself, and most in public sector jobs have never had to do that.

Judging by how they react to being asked to write a simple email, I don't think many are ready for the interview process in the private sector. I had 5+ interviews for both of my last 2 jobs. That's something that most public sector employees can't comprehend.
Long time readers here know of the many jobs I've had over a long and varied career !

NJSP was the only interview I've had, 50 years ago. With a panel of 5 superior officers in NJSP. Basically a rubber stamp, since the Superintend of the NJSP had been introduced to me by his Niece and her husband (Who was Navy Intelligence )
 
It's not meaningless when the boss (through a delegate in this case) asks you for it. In the example it shows a) the employee reads email and responds to it, b) the employee is involved in a number of endeavors and supporting them in various phases of their evolution, and c) on the surface it appears the employee is doing meaningful work, which is what POTUS and DOGE were attempting to gauge. As far as the sanitation, it's largely how my status reporting and the self-evaluation portion of my performance reviews were done for 34+ years, and how routine statusing across my entire industry was handled. It's extremely reasonable and customary.
Reasonable and customary is to have layers of supervision/management that see and observe what employees are doing. o_O Not to get a blurb from an extremely remote President or acting president asking what you did last week. That is asinine and you know it. President of GM to dock worker or janitor-What did you do last week? Absurd.
 
Bondi said she already has the files. If they are being destroyed, that means she and her team are involved.

I have little confidence that we end up seeing everything on Epstein. Pretty likely he had compromising info on people from both sides of the aisle.
She has been in her job of AG for about 2 weeks, she might have more important things to curtail.

Pedophiles don't recover with therapy they just re-offend !
 
It's not meaningless when the boss (through a delegate in this case) asks you for it. In the example it shows a) the employee reads email and responds to it, b) the employee is involved in a number of endeavors and supporting them in various phases of their evolution, and c) on the surface it appears the employee is doing meaningful work, which is what POTUS and DOGE were attempting to gauge. As far as the sanitation, it's largely how my status reporting and the self-evaluation portion of my performance reviews were done for 34+ years, and how routine statusing across my entire industry was handled. It's extremely reasonable and customary.
LOL. They are scrutinizing these blurbs from Millions of employees. They know who or where these people work? An AI is going to determine if they are working. Give it up and quit trying to normalize the absolute insanity of this!
 
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Bondi said she already has the files. If they are being destroyed, that means she and her team are involved.

I have little confidence that we end up seeing everything on Epstein. Pretty likely he had compromising info on people from both sides of the aisle.
As I have retold over 30 years ago, the NJSP had undercover details that staked out Men's restrooms for various types of sexual deviations. They suspended the operations for receiving too much negative publicity about those arrested. Elected officials, teachers, Priests, married men, were all IN the groups of sickies !
 
I get it, people destroy records prevent the contents from being revealed. If the alleged destruction is illegal or improper, people should be held accountable. I don't have much sympathy for people on the left or on the right who have their illegal misdeeds exposed. Doubly so if they are or were in positions of trust. But I recognize the uniparty is still a powerful force.
Bureaucracy !
 
Noem is a very competent administrator.

I will just advise readers here that Lie Detectors are not accurate and can't be used in court to prove or disprove anything.
There are many variables =, like the questions asked, the operators experience in reading the answers, drugs used to hide the bodies response to questions, training by subjects on how to beat the machine, etc.
 
Awesome! I do not remember him complimenting Melania so much during the 45 admin. Perhaps the rifling through her underwear drawer unnecessarily by the Feds galvanized the 2 of them. But good for DJT and Melania is an excellent First Lady.

 
Lost $9.5 billion last year.

Elvis lives, disclosed at USPS !

My BIL works parttime delivering Priority Mail and baby chicks. He says the delivery of baby chicks HAS Exploded in the last year !

But the chicks aren't heavy, he's 84 ! Plays golf every day you can find the white balls on the courses in Cuse.
Wilson was said to use balls painted black for snowy days in DC or Princeton !
 
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I will just advise readers here that Lie Detectors are not accurate and can't be used in court to prove or disprove anything.
There are many variables =, like the questions asked, the operators experience in reading the answers, drugs used to hide the bodies response to questions, training by subjects on how to beat the machine, etc.
You don't need to advise me, but there is truth serum. I learned that from watching Ant-Man & Wasp.
 
Reasonable and customary is to have layers of supervision/management that see and observe what employees are doing. o_O Not to get a blurb from an extremely remote President or acting president asking what you did last week. That is asinine and you know it. President of GM to dock worker or janitor-What did you do last week? Absurd.

The janitor could tell his boss what properties he worked on the last week. If he has empty properties and nothing to do, that job can be cut.

You know a lot of these people are making a couple hundred grand a year. They can’t take 5 minutes to respond to people working for the President?
 
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You don't need to advise me, but there is truth serum. I learned that from watching Ant-Man & Wasp.
I learned this first hand as the NJSP Polygraph Unit and Internal Affairs wanted to hook me UP !

Luckily the Superintend had given a press conference the previous week on the flaws of the machine !
My response was "If the Supe believes it has flaws, there is no way I'm going on !"

They were flummoxed !

Years later I helped bring an IPO public, called "Diogenes" (sp?) It failed !
 
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Reasonable and customary is to have layers of supervision/management that see and observe what employees are doing. o_O Not to get a blurb from an extremely remote President or acting president asking what you did last week. That is asinine and you know it. President of GM to dock worker or janitor-What did you do last week? Absurd.
An ex-Chairman of GM was quoted: "If I knew this job would have me spending over 50 % of my time on healthcare, I wouldn't have taken the job !"
 
LOL. They are scrutinizing these blurbs from Millions of employees. They know who or where these people work? An AI is going to determine if they are working. Give it up and quit trying to normalize the absolute insanity of this!
The real thing they are looking for is those that don't respond, giving them a starting point to weed out people who aren't even attempting to perform their jobs. It's a fraud hunt. It doesn't take AI to figure out who didn't respond and then assign someone in the relevant chain of command to follow up. Have you ever exchanged email with someone in the gov't? It's easy to tell which department they are in just from looking at the email address. It's only insane to someone who is so arch conservative they can only cling to how things have been and can't stand any positive change in the government. The exact opposite of liberal, though most would try to claim they were such.
 
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Awesome! I do not remember him complimenting Melania so much during the 45 admin. Perhaps the rifling through her underwear drawer unnecessarily by the Feds galvanized the 2 of them. But good for DJT and Melania is an excellent First Lady.

Mary Anne and I had a special tour of the White House during the Ford Admin. He was at Camp David and the tour was by Secret Service. I was in the NJSP at the time and signed in and were about to have the tour. When I advised I was armed (With .38 6 shot revolver !) To say the least they were shocked and gave me a handwritten receipt to have it returned.
Got to go into the Oval Office and sit behind the Resolute Desk ! (NO snot !)
 
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LOL. They are scrutinizing these blurbs from Millions of employees. They know who or where these people work? An AI is going to determine if they are working. Give it up and quit trying to normalize the absolute insanity of this!
I don’t feel this basic five minute request is hurting the country. Do you think it is?
 
Mary Anne and I had a special tour of the White House during the Ford Admin. He was at Camp David and the tour was by Secret Service. I was in the NJSP at the time and signed in and were about to have the tour. When I advised I was armed (With .38 6 shot revolver !) To say the least they were shocked and gave me a handwritten receipt to have it returned.
Got to go into the Oval Office and sit behind the Resolute Desk ! (NO snot !)
I got a tour during Shrub 43's Admin.
 
Reasonable and customary is to have layers of supervision/management that see and observe what employees are doing. o_O Not to get a blurb from an extremely remote President or acting president asking what you did last week. That is asinine and you know it. President of GM to dock worker or janitor-What did you do last week? Absurd.
Oh, I had all of that. But they couldn't always follow me around and watch everything I did. I was often embedded with customers and unable to meet them face to face for weeks or sometimes months at a time. And the solution was exactly that: they requested a short weekly status email. And sometimes I got requests for such reports from people higher up in my chain of command than my immediate supervisor, or even from higher ups that weren't in my direct chain of command but had some oversight role on a project I participated in. And occasionally we'd get them from auditors as well. And I'd request them from people working under me. And that was before the pandemic and work-from-home became normalized.

What I said was reasonable and customary was for people who worked with classified or highly competition sensitive/proprietary or active investigation type information to sanitize status reports so that information security was not compromised. It's trivial and the average employee spends more time fetching a coffee than it takes to respond to such a request.
 
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Jeff wants our taxes raised so Sheldon and his wife can rip us off even more.

 
The janitor could tell his boss what properties he worked on the last week. If he has empty properties and nothing to do, that job can be cut.

You know a lot of these people are making a couple hundred grand a year. They can’t take 5 minutes to respond to people working for the President?
No, the only ones making over $100,000 are those directly working for Trump and in high Admin. positions. If you want to ask them, OK, as they are in the same circle. However, good and well run businesses and government have supervisors and managers in daily or close contact with employees directing their actions and seeing that they fulfill their duties.
 
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