Re:Elon Musk admits email to government workers was a ruse
by Terr_ on Monday February 24, 2025 @11:47PM
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It's not an exaggeration to say that the one e-mail has cost the government millions of dollars just in the man-hours of randomized employees trying to figure out whether to reply and WTF needs being said.
Re:Elon Musk admits email to government workers was a ruse
by dzhiurgis on Monday February 24, 2025 @11:49PM
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You can’t be serious... He did perfect experiment which highlighted the inefficiency of atc - seriously who tf drives to work to send an email?
Re:Elon Musk admits email to government workers was a ruse
by apical_dendrite on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @12:28AM
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If you tell someone they're going to be fired if they don't send the email, and they don't have work email on their phone, then they'll drive to the office to send it.
Re:Elon Musk admits email to government workers was a ruse
by black_puppydog on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @07:20AM
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haaaahahah, yes, let's get every single employee a macbook (or better yet I guess, the soon-to-be-announced TeslaBook) whether or not they need one. Just so that Elmo can breathe down their neck any day he wants.
Or let's just have every ATC book their personal device into their employer's system. Ya know, because efficiency.
Edit: after re-reading it, my money would be on "xBook" or "xPad"
Re:Elon Musk admits email to government workers was a ruse
by dzhiurgis on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @01:54PM
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World isn’t going to collapse if some emails leak sometime maybe.
Given the anti-musk sentiment far more data and access will be leaked on purpose by workers themselves.
Re:Elon Musk admits email to government workers was a ruse
by coffeebeanHH on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @01:04AM
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I guess the standard reply to the mail must've been "Eat shit". In case of ATC this could be handled by management.
They not even need to send multiple emails. They just compresse the info while keeping a human readable form.
The air traffic controllers don't have government laptops. They don't use workstations with email. So in order to respond to this email, if they weren't working today, they had to come into the office and get paid overtime to respond. If they were working today, they had to find time and a laptop to respond (and not do their job controlling air traffic). And the whole management chain must have spent the whole day trying to figure out how to deal with all of this since it was not thought out at all.
So the Department of Government Efficiency wasted a ton of time and money getting air traffic controllers to email what they're working on, which is utterly pointless since everything air traffic controllers do is already recorded.