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Federal employees begin to receive second work accomplishment email

22 points by jarsin 2y ago

CoastalCoder 2y ago
I'm curious how DoD employees are supposed to square this with OPSEC goals.
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- jarsin 2y ago
  From the article: “Please do not send links, attachments, or any classified/sensitive information. If all of your activities are classified or sensitive, please write ‘All of my activities are sensitive,’” the email reads.
  - _blk 2y ago
    Thanks for pointing that out! That was a major complaint on the first one. Was this paragraph also included in the first email?
    - jarsin 2y ago
      I don't think it was in the first one. The defense sec also told the dod civilians to reply to the second email https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/02/comply-next-what-you-did-last-week-email-hegseth-tells-pentagon-civilians/403395/ https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/02/comply-next-what-y...
notepad0x90 2y ago
Micromanagement and terrible leaders do really go hand in hand I guess. Even if the results speak for themselves (yet to be seen), you really can't get the concept of "it's just wrong" into the heads of these people, they don't understand the concept. This same personality trait tracks with all the idolized figures in the startup community. But at least business leaders are there to make a profit. These people don't get that a government's priorities don't include profit or efficiency. It's priority is to govern in accordance with established law. The root cause, in my humble opinion is that Americans have now fully accepted that the executive branch can pass laws, judge and convict on its own. People vote with the expectation that the president and his administration will enact changes. That is simply wrong! Congress enacts changes, the executive implements them as intended by the legislative branch. The executive branch shouldn't even be allowed to lobby or champion policy at all. Executing the law as the president interprets it is wildly different than dictating new laws via executive orders and arm-twisting. This behavior is hardly unique to the current administration. Neither party wants to reduce the powers of the president, and that makes the nation as a whole unsustainable. George Washington was right, political parties shouldn't have been allowed.
- know-how 2y ago
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22 points by jarsin 2y ago

CoastalCoder 2y ago

I'm curious how DoD employees are supposed to square this with OPSEC goals.

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jarsin 2y ago
From the article: “Please do not send links, attachments, or any classified/sensitive information. If all of your activities are classified or sensitive, please write ‘All of my activities are sensitive,’” the email reads.
- _blk 2y ago
  Thanks for pointing that out! That was a major complaint on the first one. Was this paragraph also included in the first email?
  - jarsin 2y ago
    I don't think it was in the first one. The defense sec also told the dod civilians to reply to the second email https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/02/comply-next-what-you-did-last-week-email-hegseth-tells-pentagon-civilians/403395/ https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/02/comply-next-what-y...

notepad0x90 2y ago

Micromanagement and terrible leaders do really go hand in hand I guess. Even if the results speak for themselves (yet to be seen), you really can't get the concept of "it's just wrong" into the heads of these people, they don't understand the concept. This same personality trait tracks with all the idolized figures in the startup community. But at least business leaders are there to make a profit. These people don't get that a government's priorities don't include profit or efficiency. It's priority is to govern in accordance with established law. The root cause, in my humble opinion is that Americans have now fully accepted that the executive branch can pass laws, judge and convict on its own. People vote with the expectation that the president and his administration will enact changes. That is simply wrong! Congress enacts changes, the executive implements them as intended by the legislative branch. The executive branch shouldn't even be allowed to lobby or champion policy at all. Executing the law as the president interprets it is wildly different than dictating new laws via executive orders and arm-twisting. This behavior is hardly unique to the current administration. Neither party wants to reduce the powers of the president, and that makes the nation as a whole unsustainable. George Washington was right, political parties shouldn't have been allowed.

know-how 2y ago
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