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The Department of Government Efficiency is hiring (twitter.com/doge)
4 points by Austin_Conlon 7 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments





You need a Twitter premium account to DM them as well.

So the acronym is DOGE. Since it's not a department, the choice is pretty obvious.

All they are asking for is super high IQ and a more than 80 hours per week commitment.

With no pay.

> In a separate post, Musk chimed in on the callout, saying: “Indeed, this will be tedious work, make lots of enemies & compensation is zero.”

> “What a great deal!” Musk, the richest man in the world, wrote with a laughing emoji. He has promised to reduce federal bureaucracy by a third and cut $2tn from US government spending, an endeavor he said “necessarily involves some temporary hardship”.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/14/elon-musk...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42143198


Since this 'Department' is a made-up thing with no official standing, who is paying the salaries for them?

First thing to cut: dubious quasi-government 'departments' with dark-money funding?


> who is paying the salaries for them?

Per the other comments, no one.




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