Monday night marked a critical deadline for thousands of federal employees, many of whom are in Cincinnati.A recent email with an ultimatum is leaving workers in a state of uncertainty.The email was sent Saturday by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Shortly after, Elon Musk posted on X, saying, “All federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”The OPM email did not mention the resignation threat but said, “Please reply to this email with approximately 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and CC your manager,” listing the deadline as midnight on Tuesday.One federal worker who lives in Cincinnati shared a second email from OPM that was sent out Monday that read, “Pursuant to updated OPM guidance, responses to the email from sender HR dated Saturday, Feb. 22, are voluntary. Non-responses are not considered a resignation.”The back-and-forth over the last 48 hours are creating plenty of confusion with federal workers.WLWT spoke with several federal employees in downtown Cincinnati, all of whom said they received the emails.One person described the atmosphere inside the offices as “chaotic.”President Donald Trump praised the email and the efforts by Musk in his new role with the Department of Government Efficiency.“I thought it was great because we have people that don’t show up to work, and nobody even knows if they work for the government,” Trump said. “So by asking the question, tell us what you did this week, what he’s doing is saying, are you actually working? And then if you don’t answer like you’re sort of semi-fired or you’re fired because a lot of people are not answering because they don’t even exist. That’s how badly various parts of our government were run by and especially by this last group.”The move to minimize the size of government is starting to have an effect at the state level.Kentucky State Sen. Lindsay Tichenor posted last week that a recently filed Senate bill would open a Kentucky Office of Government Efficiency. Freshman Sen. TJ Roberts filed a similar bill.
Monday night marked a critical deadline for thousands of federal employees, many of whom are in Cincinnati.
A recent email with an ultimatum is leaving workers in a state of uncertainty.
The email was sent Saturday by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Shortly after, Elon Musk posted on X, saying, “All federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”
The OPM email did not mention the resignation threat but said, “Please reply to this email with approximately 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and CC your manager,” listing the deadline as midnight on Tuesday.
One federal worker who lives in Cincinnati shared a second email from OPM that was sent out Monday that read, “Pursuant to updated OPM guidance, responses to the email from sender HR dated Saturday, Feb. 22, are voluntary. Non-responses are not considered a resignation.”
The back-and-forth over the last 48 hours are creating plenty of confusion with federal workers.
WLWT spoke with several federal employees in downtown Cincinnati, all of whom said they received the emails.
One person described the atmosphere inside the offices as “chaotic.”
President Donald Trump praised the email and the efforts by Musk in his new role with the Department of Government Efficiency.
“I thought it was great because we have people that don’t show up to work, and nobody even knows if they work for the government,” Trump said. “So by asking the question, tell us what you did this week, what he’s doing is saying, are you actually working? And then if you don’t answer like you’re sort of semi-fired or you’re fired because a lot of people are not answering because they don’t even exist. That’s how badly various parts of our government were run by and especially by this last group.”
The move to minimize the size of government is starting to have an effect at the state level.
Kentucky State Sen. Lindsay Tichenor posted last week that a recently filed Senate bill would open a Kentucky Office of Government Efficiency. Freshman Sen. TJ Roberts filed a similar bill.
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