Among the Transportation employees who need to reply are the Federal Aviation Administration’s chronically understaffed air traffic controller workforce. Many controllers are working mandatory overtime six-day weeks of ten-hour shifts.

David J. Demas, president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 3003, which represents 320 Federal Bureau of Prisons workers, said he received 30 phone calls on Monday from his members, who work at US Penitentiary Canaan in Waymart, Pennsylvania, asking how to respond to OPM’s email.

Some workers who were off duty wanted to know if they needed to come to the prison to reply since they don’t have access to their work email on their phones or home computers. And those who were working asked for guidance on what to include in their five bullet points.

At another government facility, officials set up a room to allow employees without computer access – including janitors – to go online to send in their accomplishments during the prior week, one federal worker told CNN.

At the IRS, one group of colleagues came up with activities they performed last week as a fake response to Musk’s email. The list included “fought the BS you started, kept the employees from beating up their managers, kept your equipment in a working condition without it being thrown against the damn wall, helped the employees understand that this was the new administration’s decision and not management,” and “trying to minimize the fear, confusion and anger you cause for NO REASON…DURING TAX SEASON!”