Federal employee says they had to 'justify their existence' to DOGE 'college freshers' in '15-minute' interviews
Federal employee says they had to 'justify their existence' to DOGE 'college freshers' in '15-minute' interviews
A federal employee revealed DOGE's young employees are deciding his colleagues' fates while supervisors were ordered to fill out "justification forms."
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.
Did they also make them print out their code? Like at twitter?
Oh, I know this one! The question for this answer is: "What is the most stupid way to find inefficiencies that you can think of?" for 200!
Does it take fifteen minutes to tell the little shits to go fuck themselves?
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.
Personally, I think a more apt comparison of the DogeBags is The Carver from the Silicon Valley show.
https://silicon-valley.fandom.com/wiki/The_Carver
He is a prodigy programer whose "cloud architecture is insane".
He pounds oreo, Adderal, mellow yellow and doesn't sleep until the job is done.
Kevin also does a 'tear downs' of failed companies.
https://readwrite.com/silicon-valley-hbo-season-1-episode-6-third-party-insourcing-recap/
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.
He thinks it makes him look "dedicated" and hard working. Like randomly mashing on his keyboard during conference calls with Twitter employees.
I mean, in that case he was probably just tweeting
A driver version
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.
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.
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.
The goal for management is to pass the blame on to consultants. “We” didn’t make this choice, the consultant did.
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?
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
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.
It would definitely be something to put on your CV….
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...
'fuck off' would be my initial response, my follow-up response, and my closing statement.
Swearing fealty is more effective if you want to prevent their progress.
"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.
Freshers are the British English word as well, possibly the rest of the English speaking world.
From the US and I'm familiar with it through British media.
Never heard it before in my life in Aus.
True. I heard of "freshie" but not sure how common it is anymore.
Latin times isn't a great source but there's corroborating stories and video out there.
I seem to recall seeing dubious reporting on that site, too.
Ohhh, so newer federal employees, in the first 3 "probation" years?
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
"Listen, I talk to the taxpayers so the cabinet members don't have to! I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people!"
At least in the movie, those asshole consultants actually looked like they had experience...
And not a curfew.
The Bobs were finding actual waste and fraud, as well as people who deserved better positions. If anything Musk and friends are acting out the scene with the printer in the field, except the printer was functional.