People Are Mass-Emailing Elon Musk In Response To His "What Did You Do Last Week?" Message To Federal Workers

"You really can just email Elon Musk..."

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  Editor's Note: While we can't endorse what X has become, we can bring you the worthwhile moments that still exist there, curated and free of the surrounding chaos. On Saturday, federal workers received an email from the Office of Personnel Management demanding that they reply with five things they accomplished in the last week or else face losing their jobs as part of President Trump and unelected billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. So far, DOGE has laid off 20,000 government employees — including workers tasked with important functions like nuclear safety and preventing the spread of bird flu that the government is already scrambling to rehire.

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According to posts in the FedNews subreddit, this email was sent from the same email address as the "fork in the road" email offering government workers a buyout in exchange for resigning from their jobs. Additionally, workers at some federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, the Internal Revenue Service, and the National Institutes of Health, have since been told by their department leaders not to respond to the email. Well, over the weekend, people outside the federal government realized that seemingly anyone can send an email that will presumably reach Musk at this Office of Personnel Management address. On Facebook, Alt National Park Service, a "resistance" page dedicated to protecting the parks, posted this:

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In the comments, people shared their own lists of weekly accomplishments to share in an email:

Alt National Park Service / Facebook.com / Via Facebook: AltUSNationalParkService

And some of them remind me of someone, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

Alt National Park Service / Facebook.com / Via Facebook: AltUSNationalParkService

Even Canadians got into the mix:

Alt National Park Service / Facebook.com / Via Facebook: AltUSNationalParkService

And others plan to take advantage of this as a teachable moment:

Alt National Park Service / Facebook.com / Via Facebook: AltUSNationalParkService

People on Twitter are also sharing their emails to Elon:

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Some people are getting very creative with the assignment:

@redheadheartbrk / X.com / Via x.com

And others are getting very detailed:

@bethbourdon / X.com / Via x.com

It's also happening over on Bluesky:

@cocolightning.bsky.social / Via bsky.app

And once again, some of these accomplishments seem weirdly familiar:

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We'll keep you posted as the situation unfolds. via. buzz