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A federal worker shared his experience of what happens when Elon Musk visits a federal agency.
The video of a federal worker talking about his Elon Musk experience is doing the rounds on social media triggering a debate as to whether federal employees deserve this. The video is from a town hall event in Virginia where a man identified himself as a federal employee but did not reveal his or his agency's name.
"I was nervous to come up here and speak just for retaliation purposes.
I just wanted to share some things that are going on at my agency. In the last week, we had Elon Musk in our building and after he visited the building, he called for a 50 per cent cut to the entire agency. My colleagues are getting 15-minute one-on-one check-ins with 19,20,21-year-old college freshers asking to justify their existence," the man in the video said to the collective gasps of the audience.
"Supervisors are being told not to tell their staff anything, withhold information and today we've got word that supervisors must now fill out a justification form and there's going to be just a 30 per cent rank and yank with all staff of my agency," the federal worker said.
Then, the federal worker said that one of Elon Musk's top lieutenants had moved to the agency's sixth floor with his wife and young child. The family's hall of rooms on the sixth floor had been "blocked off with a special access list," the worker said.
The town hall event was hosted by Democratic Rep Suhas Subramanyam and around 300 people attended the event.
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