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FedAid: A tool for civil servants to describe their work with clarity

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2 pointsjohanam4 comments

Why would civil servants use this versus ignoring the request for updates (per the guidance from their leadership)? The solution to these requests is not to enable them.

In sign of division, some US agencies tell workers to ignore Musk ultimatum - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43163051

Kash Patel tells FBI staff to ignore Elon Musk’s productivity email as signs of power struggles emerge in D.C. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43148436

Top leadership at the State Department has instructed its employees to ignore @elonmusk ’s productivity inquiry, saying, essentially—we will evaluate our own people. A sign not all Trump officials are on board with Musk’s DOGE email. - https://x.com/Yamiche/status/1893517922586239358 | https://archive.today/9w4TW

utimatly, that's a personal and institutional choice 2.3m federal workers must make tonight. i'm just here to help if push comes to shove. many federal workers never graduated high school and might struggle with this and get inadquate advising from their union or supervisors, if they have one.

As it relates to employment legal advice to federal workers (including enabling them to provide information they shouldn’t be providing, or providing information that jeopardizes their employment that would not have been had they remained silent), they need an attorney, their union rep, or other representation. If this tool gets them fired, they potentially have no recourse.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-24/musk-what... | https://archive.today/4ETZZ

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.44...

I am somewhat confident you have positive intent, but operating from a position of good faith in this environment, for these workers, is not possible. They must assume a defensive footing against a malicious adversary. Anything that can be used against them will be (as the goal is to purge as many federal workers as possible).

Update: The output from this tool would potentially be used to automatically select federal workers for termination.

DOGE Is Working on Software That Automates the Firing of Government Workers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43176204

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-autorif-mass-firing-governm...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250207070643/https://media.def...

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