If I were in that position, I would be worried sick.
I’m now seeing some of Trump’s department heads saying to ignore the email. Should be interesting.
If we know it, I’m sure any federal employee not in a coma or on a backwoods electronics sabbatical knows about it. This stuff spreads very fast among concerned workers via email, text, Teams, etc.
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If I were on the other side reading the responses, yours would be a red flag that you aren’t taking your job seriously. Not a good idea! The objective is to stay under the radar, not stand out.
Ignoring it 100% guarantees a layoff, but that answer would probably 75% guarantee it. 
You just described the issue… why should anyone need to “keep their fingers crossed” just because they got an email with little to no guidance around important questions that anyone should ask…
The official email doesn’t even mention being fired as a consequence of non response… but Elon does in a tweet. Although Elons tweet isn’t official guidance… for the federal workers who do follow his tweets… they will obviously start a rumor mill around it… which will (has) caused mass confusion, anxiety, fear.
What if I’m on PTO? Or don’t have access to unclassified email? Deployed? Flighting to a work destination? What if I had a slow 1 week, but my other 10 weeks have produced significantly more bullets.
Those questions should be addressed in a FAQ… it’s pure incompetence that it wasn’t and in of itself caused government inefficiency
I’m wondering if AI will read the e-mails rather than live persons. Nonresponses would be quickly flagged. I’m betting there will be some red-flag responses that might be set aside for further review by a live person. But I’m betting the majority of responses will never be read by a human.
I’m thinking this is what Musk was talking about by the bar being set low.
I agree but if your interpretation is correct, and all they want to see is a warm body on the other side… it should not matter what the content is… as long as it doesn’t break any laws.
See my most recent post about possible AI deployment.
The whole “non response is resignation” is just an Elon tweet. It’s not even in the official email from OPM… why?
The more I see, I’m wondering if the OPM email was approved by Trump. It looks like some of his department and agency heads are telling employees they can ignore the e-mail.
Well you can be sure there is no way 2 million emails will be read by a human. The responses to this email will create a lot of inefficiency because it’s expensive to the infrastructure and humans.
Don’t even need AI to figure out who didn’t respond. Just a simple query of the exchange database can get you that information. AI won’t be able to figure out if the responses are valid. The supervisor would.. but then what?
At this point, I’m beginning to wonder if any of this goes anywhere. I see mixed signals from Trump’s department and agency heads about ignoring the email.
I hope they take a chainsaw to the tax code.
I’m getting ready to file taxes for my nieces inheritance trust, good lord this should be relatively simple:
X is principle
Y is income earned from the principle.
Tax = Y * 0.1
Instead the tax form is three pages long with 58 pages of instructions.
Walk into that building on a Sunday with a flame thrower.
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I don’t think any employee anywhere should have problem with the concept.
The delivery left a thing or twoto be desired.
Sounds like they need your help. 
Nah Just common sense questions.
firing a bunch of IRS agents that collect revenue through audits could cost us money.
Crippling the national parks so that visitors have to be limited could cost us entrance fees at the parks that charge, and certainly would cost us in that we might not be able to use them.
I agree with this, the concept of reporting what you have done over the week is fine…actually it’s probably a good thing.
The way they are doing it…not so good.
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They can start with these.
Biden’s IRS targets small businesses, families: Army of 87,000 agents must be defunded
Yes…… the on average loss of two new hires per park are going to be crippling.
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