I’m here to help

[UberCougars]

You believe that don’t you Danny? that I’m here to help?

If you work for the Federal Government, you didn’t do anything last week yet you want to stay in compliance with Management, grok says this should work:

Here are five vague yet plausible accomplishments that could fit a federal government job, sound like you did something meaningful, and are unlikely to raise eyebrows. They’re designed to be generic enough to apply to many roles while implying effort without being easily disproven:

1. **"Reviewed and updated internal documentation to ensure alignment with current departmental standards."**
- This suggests you spent time on paperwork or process improvement, which is common busywork in government roles and hard to verify without digging into specifics.

2. **"Coordinated with team members to confirm project timelines and resource needs for ongoing initiatives."**
- Implies you were engaged in communication and planning, a safe bet for any job, without committing to a measurable outcome.

3. **"Conducted a preliminary assessment of recent policy updates to identify potential impacts on our workflow."**
- Sounds proactive and analytical, like you skimmed a memo or webpage, but it’s too broad to question unless someone asks for a detailed report.

4. **"Organized and prioritized incoming correspondence to streamline response efforts for the week ahead."**
- Could mean you just glanced at your inbox or filed a few emails, but it paints you as diligent and forward-thinking.

5. **"Participated in discussions to refine our approach to stakeholder engagement based on recent feedback."**
- Suggests you sat in on a meeting (or could’ve), nodded along, and maybe said something vague—plausible and unremarkable.

These lean on buzzwords like "coordinated," "reviewed," and "streamlined," which sound productive but don’t promise concrete deliverables. They’re the kind of tasks anyone could claim in a bureaucracy without triggering suspicion, especially if your role isn’t under a microscope. Just tweak them slightly to match your specific job if needed—good luck with that email!

 

[Stretch 74]

You believe that don’t you Danny? that I’m here to help?

If you work for the Federal Government, you didn’t do anything last week yet you want to stay in compliance with Management, grok says this should work:

Here are five vague yet plausible accomplishments that could fit a federal government job, sound like you did something meaningful, and are unlikely to raise eyebrows. They’re designed to be generic enough to apply to many roles while implying effort without being easily disproven:

1. **"Reviewed and updated internal documentation to ensure alignment with current departmental standards."**
- This suggests you spent time on paperwork or process improvement, which is common busywork in government roles and hard to verify without digging into specifics.

2. **"Coordinated with team members to confirm project timelines and resource needs for ongoing initiatives."**
- Implies you were engaged in communication and planning, a safe bet for any job, without committing to a measurable outcome.

3. **"Conducted a preliminary assessment of recent policy updates to identify potential impacts on our workflow."**
- Sounds proactive and analytical, like you skimmed a memo or webpage, but it’s too broad to question unless someone asks for a detailed report.

4. **"Organized and prioritized incoming correspondence to streamline response efforts for the week ahead."**
- Could mean you just glanced at your inbox or filed a few emails, but it paints you as diligent and forward-thinking.

5. **"Participated in discussions to refine our approach to stakeholder engagement based on recent feedback."**
- Suggests you sat in on a meeting (or could’ve), nodded along, and maybe said something vague—plausible and unremarkable.

These lean on buzzwords like "coordinated," "reviewed," and "streamlined," which sound productive but don’t promise concrete deliverables. They’re the kind of tasks anyone could claim in a bureaucracy without triggering suspicion, especially if your role isn’t under a microscope. Just tweak them slightly to match your specific job if needed—good luck with that email!

Thank you, Nathan!

I hope that DOGE uses AI to compare responses to this meaningless stream of drivel. As well as the streams of other AI versions. If there is significant matching, you can confirm that the employee basically did nothing last week.

 

[UberCougars]

Don’t hate me, I don’t make the rules.

 

[UberCougars]

We’re all OK with Congressmen openly threatening the lives of citizens now?

Or not?

 

[Observer11]

Crenshaw is controlled opposition.

 

[UberCougars]

 

[UberCougars]

Meow! 😸

Turning on each other now.

https://x.com/ericldaugh/status/1894188137326268608?s=46

 

[CougPatrol]

I've worked in medical sales for virtually my entire career. As field reps we were required to submit weekly call summaries. We had 2-day monthly managerial shadow visits. We had to present S.W.O.T. presentations to our entire region quarterly. No matter how good our track record was, we were held to a resetting goal every quarter. If you didn't meet it, you were put on an action plan. If improvement wasn't made, you were let go.

I'm loving the DOGE initiative.

 

[Observer11]

I've worked in medical sales for virtually my entire career. As field reps we were required to submit weekly call summaries. We had 2-day monthly managerial shadow visits. We had to present S.W.O.T. presentations to our entire region quarterly. No matter how good our track record was, we were held to a resetting goal every quarter. If you didn't meet it, you were put on an action plan. If improvement wasn't made, you were let go.

I'm loving the DOGE initiative.

But nobody told the government employees that job security, compensation, cadillac benefits and pension came with any expectations!!!!

Just not fair.

 

[95coug]

I've worked in medical sales for virtually my entire career. As field reps we were required to submit weekly call summaries. We had 2-day monthly managerial shadow visits. We had to present S.W.O.T. presentations to our entire region quarterly. No matter how good our track record was, we were held to a resetting goal every quarter. If you didn't meet it, you were put on an action plan. If improvement wasn't made, you were let go.

I'm loving the DOGE initiative.

As someone who’s worked for government and on government contracts, there’s an important element that’s being overlooked. People at the working level are often prohibited from working on things without management approval…and management approval is often painfully slow to come, while those people argue about methods, funding, and who gets to take credit. So, those workers may have difficulty coming up with 5 things they’ve accomplished- especially 5 things in a week - because their managers haven’t let them do what the workers know needs to be done.

Management and administration is where cuts really need to be made - we’ve all talked here and pretty much agreed about management bloat. But that’s not where the cuts are landing so far.

Even if the cuts were in the right places, the next big surprise will be that agency policy & procedure routes decisions through certain managers, and when that manager isn’t there any more….nobody knows what to do.

 

[CougPatrol]

As someone who’s worked for government and on government contracts, there’s an important element that’s being overlooked. People at the working level are often prohibited from working on things without management approval…and management approval is often painfully slow to come, while those people argue about methods, funding, and who gets to take credit. So, those workers may have difficulty coming up with 5 things they’ve accomplished- especially 5 things in a week - because their managers haven’t let them do what the workers know needs to be done.

Management and administration is where cuts really need to be made - we’ve all talked here and pretty much agreed about management bloat. But that’s not where the cuts are landing so far.

Even if the cuts were in the right places, the next big surprise will be that agency policy & procedure routes decisions through certain managers, and when that manager isn’t there any more….nobody knows what to do.

Those are obviously extremely valid points, and unfortunately there are going to be casualties. Good people are going to lose their jobs. Families are going to be shaken up. Change sucks, but it's long overdue.

 

[95coug]

Those are obviously extremely valid points, and unfortunately there are going to be casualties. Good people are going to lose their jobs. Families are going to be shaken up. Change sucks, but it's long overdue.

I don't disagree that some change is needed, but I disagree with the way it's being done. In a lot of cases, the wrong people are being cut. They're being let go based on the wrong criteria - like how long they've been in their position. Longevity is not an indicator of performance. In fact, in government, it's often the opposite.
It makes more sense to me to take the time to evaluate who's doing what, and determine whether that function is necessary or effective. He's got 4 years to implement changes, there's really no reason to jump out and try to do it all in the first 4 months.

 

[dgibbons]

I don't disagree that some change is needed, but I disagree with the way it's being done. In a lot of cases, the wrong people are being cut. They're being let go based on the wrong criteria - like how long they've been in their position. Longevity is not an indicator of performance. In fact, in government, it's often the opposite.
It makes more sense to me to take the time to evaluate who's doing what, and determine whether that function is necessary or effective. He's got 4 years to implement changes, there's really no reason to jump out and try to do it all in the first 4 months.

Strongly disagree. There is every reason to do it in the first 100 days. The midterms are in two years. That's nothing in politics. You're already seeing the efforts to delay change until then. Some of the changes will take Congress. Plus, Trump is now in a position to say "give me your vote on the big beautiful bill, and we can talk about your pet project that got DOGE'd."

 

[UberCougars]

 

[Coug90]

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I didn’t know we were polling Russia, North Korea and Belarus now! Honestly I thought his numbers would be better.

 

[95coug]

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Ha. No poll conducted on X has a shred of validity. Especially when far right sites and pages are posting it and driving traffic to it.

 

[CougInSpain]

The hyperventilation by leftists about Musk conducting these audits having access to American's personal and private information is golden. Especially given that a Biden era IRS contract worker, when given this access, leaked personal/private info of over 400k people including Trump. He specifically targeted a select group of people. Dude was convicted and faced only ONE count of this crime. Not ONE peep from these champagne elite lefties that are on here throwing a tantrum of how Musk is going to sabotage Americans. The apparent lack of acknowledgement and accountability are getting exposed as well as the selective faux outrage by you ridiculous lunatics liberals.

Not to mention 53 researchers & students given that same access under Biden. Yet again, not a peep from these tarded libs.

 

[Coug90]

The hyperventilation by leftists about Musk conducting these audits having access to American's personal and private information is golden. Especially given that a Biden era IRS contract worker, when given this access, leaked personal/private info of over 400k people including Trump. He specifically targeted a select group of people. Dude was convicted and faced only ONE count of this crime. Not ONE peep from these champagne elite lefties that are on here throwing a tantrum of how Musk is going to sabotage Americans. The apparent lack of acknowledgement and accountability are getting exposed as well as the selective faux outrage by you ridiculous lunatics liberals.

Not to mention 53 researchers & students given that same access under Biden. Yet again, not a peep from these tarded libs.

This coming from the brilliant folks who thought the vax was to inject trackers into us when we are all voluntarily carrying Apple/Samsung trackers in our pockets everywhere we go.

 

[UberCougars]

Andrew Yang, far right agitator, lol

 

[Stretch 74]

I don't disagree that some change is needed, but I disagree with the way it's being done. In a lot of cases, the wrong people are being cut. They're being let go based on the wrong criteria - like how long they've been in their position. Longevity is not an indicator of performance. In fact, in government, it's often the opposite.
It makes more sense to me to take the time to evaluate who's doing what, and determine whether that function is necessary or effective. He's got 4 years to implement changes, there's really no reason to jump out and try to do it all in the first 4 months.

95, What you are advocating for here is simply more of the same shit we have been subjected to for years and years. How many politicians have run for office promising to get in there and clean up government waste? Maybe 98% of current congress members. And how many of them have actually been able to accomplish anything in that regard? Maybe 2% of them.

We are having confirmed now what what we have known/suspected for a long time- that government has incredible inertia and there will be might efforts taken to avoid rocking the boat even 1/4". If the project is not attacked with a fair amount of shock and awe then it will unfortunately dissolve over time into just another good effort that went nowhere.

We are at a very critical point now and desperately need this DOGE effort to succeed greatly in order to get government expenditures down to a reasonable level and start paying down our debt. If the effort fails and we keep up the reckless deficit spending we will end up in a real mess.

And do NOT send $$$ back out to taxpayers until the debt is down to $0.0.

 

[95coug]

95, What you are advocating for here is simply more of the same shit we have been subjected to for years and years. How many politicians have run for office promising to get in there and clean up government waste? Maybe 98% of current congress members. And how many of them have actually been able to accomplish anything in that regard? Maybe 2% of them.

We are having confirmed now what what we have known/suspected for a long time- that government has incredible inertia and there will be might efforts taken to avoid rocking the boat even 1/4". If the project is not attacked with a fair amount of shock and awe then it will unfortunately dissolve over time into just another good effort that went nowhere.

We are at a very critical point now and desperately need this DOGE effort to succeed greatly in order to get government expenditures down to a reasonable level and start paying down our debt. If the effort fails and we keep up the reckless deficit spending we will end up in a real mess.

And do NOT send $$$ back out to taxpayers until the debt is down to $0.0.

I'm fine with cleaning up some of the mess. Problem is that the methods are making a bigger mess, and are most likely hitting the wrong people. They're taking actions that they're not even aware what the impacts will be, cutting positions based on standards that are expeditious instead of sensible, and generally creating chaos. But yet the people who are really responsible for the most waste and the least work (high paid upper administrators, undersecretaries of whatever, and Congress itself) aren't even under the microscope, much less the hatchet.

Right now, they're not even taking the low-hanging fruit, they're just picking up what's on the ground. They haven't fixed anything yet. The real issues are in the massive inefficiencies, the duplication of effort, and the thousands of positions created to manage moving paper from one side to the other. Add in the ridiculous programs that require the government to spend more than business (Davis-Bacon, in particular). Those are the things that need to get taken apart, and the positions that need to be eliminated. You don't get those just by picking out who's only been in their position for a year, or by asking for a list of what someone has done in the last week. Actually, you should be looking at those lists and finding the people who answered fastest - they're going to be the save-asses who came up with some sort of BS answer and took credit for what other people are doing....while they were sitting at a computer.