The article highlights discontent among employees of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) regarding unsolicited emails from their acting director encouraging federal workers to resign. These emails echo tactics used by Elon Musk at Twitter, raising concerns about the integrity of federal services. OPM employees reaffirm their commitment to nonpartisanship and the Constitution, emphasizing their role in serving American citizens rather than political agendas, while voicing anxiety over attacks originating from within their agency during a turbulent political climate.
These increasingly desperate pleas for civil servants-including us here at OPM-to quit are signed by the acting director of OPM, but mirror the directives Elon Musk used when dismantling Twitter.
As an OPM employee, I want my fellow federal workers and the American people to know that these emails may be coming from inside the house-but they are not coming from us.
OPM's origin goes back to the creation of the civil service in 1883, and the public servants who work here believe in the importance of having nonpolitical employees run the basic functions of government.
When I started my job at OPM, I swore an oath to the Constitution, and to defend it against all enemies foreign and domestic, making it especially awful that the threat to our government is coming from inside my own office building.
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