Summary
A federal employee revealed that Elon Musk’s DOGE conducted 15-minute interviews where staff had to “justify their existence” to “college freshers.”
After Musk’s visit, he called for a 50% agency cut, with the bottom 30% of performers facing layoffs.
Supervisors must now submit justification forms for employees.
The speaker also claimed Musk, his “wife,” and child are living inside the agency.
If anyone has ever worked for a bad company where McKinsey or Deloitte comes in, this is what it’s like.
A bunch of dumb know-it-alls come in, “uncover” a bunch of already documented stuff that everyone already knows about, some to stupid conclusion based upon data with no context, them they give terrible advice to the dumb person and hired them, and that dumb person was probably already to blame for many of the problems that needed fixing.
The consultant’s goal is usually never to fix organization. Their goal is to profit of selling people a perceived fix, and to add a big brand name to their CV.
That’s exactly why I kept telling people to stop promoting Pete Buttigeig as if he was this great guy. He was a McKinsey lawyer. Just because you’re gay and a Democrat does not in any way mean you’re a good person. But somehow that was the reasoning people operated under.
Pete wasn’t a lawyer and left that place after 2.5 years. A lot of people take a job there after college because working with a lot of different companies sounds cool. Then you get in and realize that place sucks.
The ones who leave aren’t the people you worry about. You worry about the assholes who like that place and strive to become a parter.
The goal for management is to pass the blame on to consultants. “We” didn’t make this choice, the consultant did.