[xemdetia]

As far as I can see it is just strawmanning the federal workforce as a boogeyman. Every federal person I heard of or talked to spent most of the weekend and Monday trying to understand how to respond and what was permitted to disclose. The email looks like a phishing email because it's not from existing org structure. Most fed employees never have interacted with OPM before because that's not how any of this worked. It also doesn't help that the email before this was 'if you respond to this email you resign.'

[Almondsetat]

It's uncanny how that email perfectly mirrors a phishing one

- Request for sensitive information

- Apparently trustworthy but unusual domain

- Manufactured urgency (of the highest level too)

[philipov]

Almost as if it's intentional. As if its purpose is to create a thin excuse to fire people.

[mysterydip]

Not only was the previous email "if you respond to this email you resign", but the last email was "if you don't respond to this email, you resign." (at least on ones my friends saw, apparently not all?)

[archagon]

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