You Won’t Believe What Federal Employees Are Crying About Now!

Government employees are in an uproar again, this time because (gasp) Elon Musk suggested they jot down five measly bullet points about what they accomplished each week. Five. Not a novel. Not a dissertation. Not a bureaucratic 200-page compliance report. Just a simple summary of what they actually did with their taxpayer-funded time.

And yet, federal workers are melting down like toddlers told they can’t have another juice box. How dare they be asked to show accountability! How dare we, the people paying their salaries, expect them to prove they’re actually doing something productive?

These people need to stop whining, write their five bullet points, and—dare I say it—try actually working. The rest of us do it every day. Dana Loesch said it best in her take, here:

Here’s the reality: the private sector does this all the time. I do it for clients every single week. Anyone who has ever held a real job outside the warm, cushy embrace of federal employment knows that tracking your own work is pretty standard practice. If you work for someone, they have every right to know what you’re accomplishing. That’s not tyranny—it’s management.

But the government class doesn’t see it that way. In their world, any request for transparency is an attack. Any effort to make them justify their taxpayer-funded jobs is an insult. They think accountability is beneath them. And that’s exactly why the federal bureaucracy is a bloated mess of inefficiency.

Their insane reaction is proof that a major culture shift is needed. If the expectation that you demonstrate your work feels offensive, that tells me you’re probably not doing much worth reporting. And if that’s the case, why are taxpayers still paying you?