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I've been reading the air traffic controller subreddit (r/atc) and it really shows how unbelievably stupid and uninformed Elon is. The air traffic controllers

I've been reading the air traffic controller subreddit (r/atc) and it really shows how unbelievably stupid and uninformed Elon is. 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.

Terr_ 2y ago
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.
dzhiurgis 2y ago
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- apical_dendrite 2y ago
  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.
- black_puppydog 2y ago
  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"
  - dzhiurgis 2y ago
    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.
coffeebeanHH 2y ago
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.

Terr_ 2y ago

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.

dzhiurgis 2y ago

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apical_dendrite 2y ago
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.
black_puppydog 2y ago
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"
- dzhiurgis 2y ago
  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.

coffeebeanHH 2y ago

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.