On Tuesday, January 28th, federal employees across all agencies received an email from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) with the subject line “Fork in the Road.” It was the same subject line to an email he sent at Twitter when he first took over in 2022. The objective, then and now, was the same: Get people to voluntarily resign in service of shrinking the workforce.
But unlike at Twitter, where Musk reportedly culled 80% of the staff six months into his reign, federal workers were not so easily bamboozled.
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