This has 8,000 updoots and has been put as FED ONLY with 450 replies, send this too all your fricking non fed FRIENDS and RELATIVES so they can help, somehow
"I read online that some people are wondering why Federal employees are making such a fuss over being asked to list 5 things they did last week. After all, it isnt difficult to type up a response and send it, right? It truly isn't. I've been trying to come up with a way non civil servants will understand the problem, so I've created this analogy.
Let's say you are a delivery driver (FedEx, UPS, Amazon, etc). From Monday to Friday, 8-5 you drive around, delivering packages. Your company tracks your truck via satellite, your deliveries via various IT programs, and they know what you are doing because they plan your route, tell you where to drive, and check your truck at the end of the day to confirm you delivered all your packages.
Now let's say after a long week of work, you are relaxing at home with your family on a Saturday night, getting ready for bed, and you get a random email at 11pm from your state's dept of labor. The email comes from [email protected] and is automatically flagged by your company's email as coming from outside your organization. The email says that within 48 hrs, you have to send them a list of 5 places you drove over the past week. Keep in mind, this didnt come from your supervisor, or the leader of your individual company, but from an organization that has nothing to do with the packages you deliver or even package delivery services in general. The email has a generic return email and no signature block identifying who actually sent the email. Your boss didn't know you were going to be asked for this information, your boss's boss didn't know, even the leader of your company didn't know about the email. And let's not forget that the Dept of Labor has no real need to know where you drove this week.
Your decide to look online and see if anyone else got the email, and end up following a link to the personal social media page of someone that works at the Dept of Labor. From this personal social media page, you learn that the email was sent to every delivery driver in the country and that if you don't respond by the deadline, you will be fired.
You don't go back to work until Monday, so you spend the rest of Saturday and all of Sunday wondering why you are receiving this email and being asked where you drove, and why you are being threatened with being fired of you dont respond to a random email that came from outside your chain of command. You worry that if you don't describe your drive/route in enough detail, you will be fired. You worry that your supervisor only gave you 10 packages to deliver one day, when another route delivered 30, so maybe you will be fired because you were given fewer packages to deliver and there can't describe an impressive route as part of your 5 bullet points of driving.
When you return to work on Monday, the deadline looming over your head, your boss tells you not to respond to the email. And hour later, your boss's boss tells you that you MUST respond. And then just before quitting time, the leader of your company sends you an email that you are NOT to respond.
Meanwhile, you know full well that all of your deliveries were appropriately tracked to confirm delivery, and your entire route along (with every stop) can be verified by reviewing the GPS records on your delievry truck.
This is why the 5 bullet email is concerning to federal employees."
YOU HAVE BEEN CONDITIONED NOT TO REPLY 
"But I already send status emails" whined the future wal mart greeter 
"Doing fricking nothing involves a lot of status reports pal! It's hard work not doing any work!" 
Wouldn't that make it easier to respond to? 
The president of the united states of america 
knowing what the government employees in the united states of america do on a weekly basis is in fact a SECURITY RISK 
"The executive asking for weekly updated is a VULGAR DISPLAY OF POWER like the Pantera album"
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The problem with these guys is exactly that none of their Reddit sneedscreeds even slightly imply that they're actually doing anything at work. It's all just grandiose "The world would would collapse without us!" shit. The resentment of this request really makes it feel like they don't do anything.
If you're a government worker seething online, you should be talking about what you do at work. Like don't dox yourself, but come on. This sub is now where the world goes to see what federal workers are talking about, and this is what they see? How about telling the world what would happen if you lost your job, instead of why you shouldn't have to tell anyone
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I know a lot of people who work for the government. They really dont do anything useful.
One guy I know kept getting put on projects that had been approved 5 years prior and were almost certainly no longer needed. He was then expected to act as if his job was the most Important and Exciting thing ever.
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