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13,000 Federal Employees Receive Abusive Email in Comms System Exploit: ‘Tired of Working for a Complete C*nt?’ (www.mediaite.com)

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

This is Elon's fault.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-doge-executive-order-elon-musk-us-digital-service-it/

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/21/doge_us_digital_service_renamed/

DOGE is actually just a rebranding of US Digital Services, basically the IT for the Federal government.

To repeat: Elon, the idiot who blew up Twitter's technical back and frontend, is in charge of IT services for the Federal government.

EDIT: Oh dear god.

https://futurism.com/elon-kids-gutting-opm-doge

Yep, for the stuff Elon isn't directly in control of, he's appointing basically interns and other employees from his and his techbro friend's (Thiel) companies.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Number of federal employees

1970: 2.8 million

2024: 3.0 million

US Population

1970: 203 million

2024: 340 million

All they do is lie. Federal employees make life better for all, and all they've ever seen is shrinking resources and more workload.

Fuck Republicans and fuck everyone who votes for this shit.

American lives will get worse, and unfortunately the morons who vote for this are too fucking stupid to connect dots and realize how nice their lives are with what government does for them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Just to look at that a different way, 1970 = 1 fed employee for every 72.5 citizens, 2024 = 1 fed employee for every 113.3 citizens. Add on top of that a budget that likely has not increased proportionally, and the strain gets even greater. So it sounds like our government is able to operate half as effectively as it was in the 70s, and they think that is too much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 43 minutes ago (1 children)

operate half as effectively

I think you mean double effective. Seeing as each fed needs to cater for double the populace.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 minutes ago

We mean the same thing I believe. I phrased it thinking of how on a per citizen basis they now only have half a fed workers time they used to, while your phrasing comes at it from the employee has to do twice as much with the same resources.

I'll concede I probably was not clear in the way I intended and I appreciate you reframing my thoughts for me. 😅

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

‘Tired of Working for a Complete C*nt?’

"Yes, it's been 11 days of hell"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 hours ago

What about tagging posts with "Trump" (elon, zuck... Etc)?

That way all our spam filters will work way better and our sanity may stay intact :-)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

But HER EMAILS!!!1

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Mmmm buttery males

[–] [email protected] 97 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 hours ago

Lmao

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Does anyone know? Is it people just emailing [email protected]?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

I would be curious to know as well.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I'm sure the public abuse won't make them more likely to quit and clear way for Trump's lapdogs

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

This shit would make my day.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 hours ago

Someone should disseminate the simple sab manual

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago

It’s abuse of trump not the workers?

They’re probably laughing.