The Trump administration sent another obnoxious email to federal employees ordering them to list their achievements from the previous week, making clear it intends for the bureaucratic memo exercise to be a new weekly ritual for more than two million workers.

The email from the Office of Personnel Management, or OPM, was titled “What did you do last week? Part II.” Like the previous one, it instructed employees to “please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets describing what you accomplished,” and gave a deadline of Monday at midnight.

The first such email was paired with a threat from Elon Musk, the head of President Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, who said nonresponses would be considered resignations. It prompted widespread confusion across agencies, with some department leaders telling workers to reply, and others telling them to ignore it and stay within their agency chain of command.

Follow-up emails shared with HuffPost on Saturday showed some agency leaders falling more in line with Musk after OPM’s second “what did you do last week?” demand.

Leadership at the Department of Homeland Security sent an email to employees Saturday telling them they were “implementing a structured process to submit a brief summary of their key accomplishments from the previous week.” They called the new policy “part of our internal accountability” efforts, and said it would align with OPM’s recent guidance.

The previous week, DHS had instructed employees to “pause” any response to OPM and said “no reporting action from you is needed at this time.”

In a sign of how time-consuming this exercise has already been, the acting commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which is part of DHS, sent out a two-page memo to employees on Saturday trying to explain what’s expected.

It listed 17 questions and answers on the process, including “What should I do if I did not work all or part of last week?” (Answer: Respond and “indicate you were on leave”), and “Should employees who perform the same activities each week send the same bullet points each week?” (The TL;DR answer: “If you are unsure about what to include, ask your supervisor for assistance.”)

One worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal, said the exercise seems to be based on the premise that first-line supervisors pay “absolutely no attention whatsoever to wtf” their subordinates are doing.

At the Department of Energy, Secretary Chris Wright had what one employee described as a “change of tenor” in the second week of OPM’s demand. After originally being told they didn’t have to respond, employees were notified Saturday that they should reply.

“At DOE, we do impactful and vital work for America and are proud to share our accomplishments with others,” Wright said in an email shared with HuffPost. “To that end, I ask all DOE employees to reply to the OPM email by the requested deadline of Monday at 11:59pm ET each week.”

He added, “Employees currently without email access due to leave, temporary duty, or other valid reasons should submit their response within 48 hours of regaining access.”

Some agency leaders were still pushing back on the OPM directive, however. Both the State Department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration sent messages to employees this weekend instructing them not to reply, according to a report in The Washington Post.

The accomplishment memo is part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to shrink the federal workforce, in large part by making employees miserable and encouraging them to quit. The White House has unilaterally shut down federal agencies, orchestrated the firings of thousands of probationary employees and tried to push out many more through a legally dicey deferred resignation proposal.

Trump’s implementation of workforce policies has been rife with chaos and confusion, as leaders contradict and reverse one another in pursuit of the administration’s goals. After OPM originally ordered employees to list their week’s accomplishments, the agency later walked back its demand and said replying was voluntary.

But that advice was undermined by Trump himself, who said publicly Monday that workers could be punished for not replying to OPM.

“And then, if you don’t answer, like, you’re sort of semi-fired or you’re fired, because a lot of people aren’t answering because they don’t even exist,” the president said.

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