Subj : What a snowflake...
To   : Mike Powell
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Mar 02 2025 13:01:00

Hello Mike Powell!

 >> Teary-Eyed Federal Employee Compares Filling Out Elon
 >> Musk's Email to "What I Imagine Living in North Korea to be
 >> Like"

 MP> While her reaction is an overreaction, having been a
 MP> goverment employee for 25+ years, the practice is your
 MP> status reports go to your supervisor. If you receive an
 MP> email supposedly from some other cabinet requesting the
 MP> status of what you are working on, that gets immediately
 MP> reported as phishing because reporting such things to
 MP> someone not in your management chain (or your user's
 MP> management chain, in the case of IT) is very much
 MP> abnormal.

Precisely. I would be suspicious of requests like that from  
anyone outside the department.  The emails from DOGE should  
have just gone to the supervisors.


 MP> It is also one of the very types of email that security
 MP> would send out to trick people into responding that could
 MP> result in a ding on your next evaluation if you did
 MP> respond.

Precisely.  Since this whole process from DOGE has been made to  
the general public, the opportunity is rife for explotation.

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