> On vacation: set up auto response Fired, you didn't respond as asked. > Concerned about legality: reply that you are concerned about legality Fired, they w

> On vacation: set up auto response Fired, you didn't respond as asked. > Concerned about legality: reply that you are concerned about legality Fired, they want people who aren't going to ask questions. > Doing classified activity: reply that your work is classified Fired, they don't care about classification. They are violating it anyway, and you not doing it for them is seen as disloyal. > “Too engrossed”: over 48 hours of not checking email at all? I doubt any government job is that engrossing. I don't. A lot of departments do most of their communication through other platforms now anyway, so email is only for interfacing with outsiders. If you do little of that in your daily duty, it's not unreasonable to only check your emails once or twice a week. Why are you bending over backwards to make excuses for this shitshow of an operation? DOGE is an embarrassment, and I'm shocked that people are actually working hard on HN to try to defend its transparent incompetence.