Here's the origin..
That exchange happened soon after Elon bought Twitter. The CEO tried to tell him to stop tweeting, Elon simply asked "What did you get done this week?"
The CEO didn't/couldn't answer, and was fired soon after this exchange.
Elon says all federal employees will have to explain 'what did you get done last week?'
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Here's the origin..
That exchange happened soon after Elon bought Twitter. The CEO tried to tell him to stop tweeting, Elon simply asked "What did you get done this week?"
The CEO didn't/couldn't answer, and was fired soon after this exchange.
I love it when liberal narcissism comes back and bites them in the ass
LOL well I am glad I am not a federal worker or in corporate Murca anymore. I hate nannyism. When I first went to my last assignment as a contractor, I had a desk in the server room and TPTB wanted me to set at desk in the general population. I never acted on that suggestion. My immediates were on my side so it went nowhere. Busy bodies are always in your business when you sit out on the floor. Later I had a real office with another IT guy, next to the server room and separated from the floor. Our job was to fix problems. It was not to have people stop by the desk or for me to go looking. The problems were logged so I never had to send an email detailing what I had done. Some days we did absolutely nothing. Literally nothing broke. My officemate would play around with 3d cartoon type animation and I would read news. This fact would have pissed off some busy bodies.
Previous position I was a network admin. My office mate spent hours manually editing files and doing server work. When he screwed up it to passed to me. We were supposed to cross train but he knew nothing. One of my oldest friends but he was a horrible IT guy. He handled hardware and I managed servers. I automated the heck out my job every chance I got and even outsourced some functions. I documented none of these automations as I significantly reduced my work load. I could do in 5min what it took my officemate or my predecessor 30 minutes to do.
When I worked in a factory during college, I would figure out how to be efficient and fast. I would literally be 15 min ahead of my coworkers. Why you ask? Wanting a promotion? NOPE, I could sit there before lunch and get an extra 15 min break. I merely had to gain few min an hour to coast until lunch. Once ahead I just worked at a slower leisurely pace. Guy across from me started doing it too. Same at the end of the night. Some coworkers whined and the bosses came over and made us do extra work at the end of the night. Then I got moved elsewhere. I did the same thing there.
So I have always busted my @ss up front so I could master my position and learn how to make it easier and more efficient. I never volunteered for more work and hid my gains If I could.
So what would happen to me if I was a federal worker, is I would come in and get my quota like the others, be done by noon while the others would be lucky to meet quota by days end and I would then get canned because the spyware they are putting on everyone's PCs these days would show I read the news from noon to 5pm. So slow down and pace? No way, I would go out of my mind slow rolling for 8 hrs.
I would be so fired!
LOL
DC, I worked the same way you did,,, sorta. But when I finished my assigned job I'd fine the supervisor and ask him what else needed to be done. This seemed to annoy him, as he then had to find something that needed to be done. Knowing this over time, I would just go and find what needed to be done and do it, instead of sitting around BS'ing with my fellow employees doing nothing.
I was also given the worst assignments because I never bitched at the supervisor about my job assignments.
This led to the supervisor telling me that nobody wanted to work with me, as if I was somehow at fault.
I asked a fellow worker why he would say he didn't want to work with me?
He answered honestly with this: you always get the SHIT-JOBS, so if I work with you I get the shit jobs too.
When I reported this to the supervisor he looked at his shoes with NO ANSWER
What resulted is me never getting high yearly work ratings with fellow employees claiming that I was just trying to make all of them look bad. Very substandard (government job) management was the real problem at that work site. IMOHO, if you had good management, they would have fired your fellow substandard employee, along with you for how you responded.
The further results is that I retired,,, TO THE DAY as soon as I could. I didn't even wait until the next pay period, I went out the door. A few months later I ran into a former fellow employee and asked him how things were going. He admitted that they were in chaos because I was no longer there to do what needed to be done and so all of them were at each others throats trying to avoid all of the jobs that I had been doing for years.
I walked away with a huge smile on my face and I have now enjoyed my early retirement for the last 25 years.....
I was also given the worst assignments because I never bitched at the supervisor about my job assignments.
This led to the supervisor telling me that nobody wanted to work with me, as if I was somehow at fault.
I asked a fellow worker why he would say he didn't want to work with me?
He answered honestly with this: you always get the SHIT-JOBS, so if I work with you I get the shit jobs too.
When I reported this to the supervisor he looked at his shoes with NO ANSWER
What resulted is me never getting high yearly work ratings with fellow employees claiming that I was just trying to make all of them look bad. Very substandard (government job) management was the real problem at that work site. IMOHO, if you had good management, they would have fired your fellow substandard employee, along with you for how you responded.
The further results is that I retired,,, TO THE DAY as soon as I could. I didn't even wait until the next pay period, I went out the door. A few months later I ran into a former fellow employee and asked him how things were going. He admitted that they were in chaos because I was no longer there to do what needed to be done and so all of them were at each others throats trying to avoid all of the jobs that I had been doing for years.
I walked away with a huge smile on my face and I have now enjoyed my early retirement for the last 25 years.....
One of the jobs I had in college was also a factory job over the summer. This one was different as I moved from station to station. I would finish the first and then move to final assembly and packaging. Quota was 20 units a day but with me and another college student we were putting out 25. Regular workers got mad at us for exceeding quota. They were afraid management would bump up quota after we were gone. Me and the girl were kids of mid management engineers and were both around 18. The workers ranged from 35-60s and we worked circles around them. When I hit my late 30s I understood their plight as I had slowed down and was out of shape. I just thought they were lazy. Maybe that was part of it but I am sure age played a part.
Emails are going out. Liberals are losin their minds. Reddit is already callin for....well you can guess.
Trump and Elon are exposing how bloated and unproductive government is. The average single mom working fast food has to do this multiple times every shift....but federal workers are outraged they are asked to account for their time once a week??
