Since they received an ultimatum offering to resign or risk being dismissed later, the staff of the American federal agencies organize the resistance.
It’s not just international that Donald Trump and his new administration bristle. Also on American soil, the methods and declarations of the new tenant of the White House are strongly criticized. And for good reason, the billionaire is not the type to take tweezers. Pragmatic, the 47th President of the United States launches the sites behind each other and wants results! Among these projects, the reduction of labor in public services.
To do this, Donald Trump mandated the businessman Elon Musk. The boss of Tesla, X or even SpaceX knew how to give his person, and especially his money, during his presidential campaign. As a reward, Donald Trump awarded him a freshly created ministry, known as “government efficiency”. An almost tailor -made position for Elon Musk. The latter has indeed proven herself in terms of sandbstructure when he has taken over the reins of the Twitter social network, since become X.
A spoon in protest
Without wasting time, nine days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, the 2.4 million civil servants of the American federal agencies received an email from Elon Musk entitled “Fork in the road” on January 29. Understand “at the crossroads”, but that one can also translate word for word by “fork on the road”. Note that the word “fork” in English also means “fork”.
This email invited the civil servants to choose, before February 6, between a full -free resignation with social benefits or … a possible dismissal without anything later. The Ultimatum did not surprise a good welcome and the resistance began to set up. Since then, justice has temporarily suspended the ultimatum in question.
But more surprising, notes the New York Timesthe resistance has also taken the form of a … spoon. Or more exactly a spoon emoji, in opposition to the fork that appeared in the title of the Ultimatum email. Thus, spoon emojis were seen during exchanges on cats or directly in the Slack status, application used at work, of certain officials. A sling that obviously did not please at the top since the General Services Administration (GSA) of the US government ended up removing the spoon emoji of the visioconferencing tools of civil servants this Thursday …