Although this seems a million years ago, one of the first – and the stupid most stupid of the Shadow Elon Musk made each member of the Federal Work A weekly email With five things they had done. This requirement is vanishBut while the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth absorbs his civilian employees with future emails of five things, they have one last task: portion “Improve ministry’s efficiency or eliminate waste.”
It is, of course, a disadvantaged thing to ask THE more than 700,000 Civilian workers at the Ministry of Defense. First, he shares the same problem as email to five things on the level of the government: what about people who work with sensitive government information? How would they do Summarize their work in a non -classified way? Of course, since Hegseth is very relaxed About classified data sharing, it may not be a concern.
What East A concern for employees who must respond to this compulsory email – an email where there is no assurance that their answers will be anonymous – is that Hegseth has a very close idea of what constitutes the kind of ineffectiveness, waste or fraud that he would like to eliminate.
To be fair, the DOD email says that examples of waste could be things like “Internet does not work on Tuesday”, “these regulations do not make sense” or “this system of weapons does not work”. However, even just taken at the nominal value, these examples are absurd. What exactly would we do with a complaint as vague as “these regulations do not make sense”? Do DOD’s random employees really know what weapons systems do they work, but are DOD high-ups without any idea? How are intermittent internet breakdowns comparable remotely to defective weapons systems?
These are the types of questions that are generated by people who have no idea what they are doing in their high -level agency work.
Real surveys with federal employees resemble something like 2023 of the Defense Council report On improving the IT user experience in DOD. It executes 118 pages, includes answers to the survey of thousands of employees, provides various measures by which measure the satisfaction of the end user, has a section explaining research methodologies and a long bibliography of relevant publications.
Compare this to the HegSeth Dod to ask all employees a range of complaints, fundamentally, “my router does not work” until “all F-35 Fighters do not work. This shows an understanding in the toddlers of the tasks of DOD employees, as if everyone had an equal experience and equal knowledge to prick random programs and call them a waste.
There is also the problem that no employee who wants to keep his job should talk about hegseth of real waste in DOD. Hegseth’s idea of waste is all that is not designed for straight, white and cisgenres soldiers exclusively. He has a Flunky writer on the Dod website that gets out of the Fawning parts boast How the so-called Ministry of Government efficiency found $ 80 million in DOD waste, but what is considered “waste” is essentially diversity and climate initiatives. In addition, $ 80 million in savings reach around 0.009% of the Dod 2024 budget $ 841 billion. Such efficiency!
Hegseth was so excited to cut anything with “women” in the title that He proudly chopped The women’s, peace and security program even if it was promulgated by Trump. But even having such a distinguished right pedigree was not enough to save the Hegseth program, because the ladies.
It is so thick that he supervised a DOD website purge so sloppy that the agency deleted an image Bombardier B-29 which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, because this bomber was named “Enola Gay”. He also dismissed all high -level soldiers He thinks are awakened, but really, it just means He pulls Women and blacks who have succeeded in the army because he deeply believes that they should not be there.
Hegseth is at DOD to be a committed professional and nationalist nationalist racist, not to effectively manage a cabinet agency. Do not expect him to take suggestions from employees unless they progress his racist and misogynist objectives.
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