Whomever is posting the memos to the public OPM website doesn’t know how to scrub meta data from the documents. If you download them and view the document properties, you can see the author. Several are authored by lobbyists and lawyers individuals outside of the OPM.
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Maybe we shouldn't be posting all these pro tips on reddit lol. Clearly they are reading reddit and learning from us.
So now there’s a kind of “meta-administration” with zero oversight or accountability that sits between Trump and the agencies, telling everything the agencies must do. Cool cool. Feels like a complete erosion of checks and balances. This has to be super illegal, I know SCOTUS has appeared in the bag for this admin before but wow, Fed employees and unions gotta sue. The courts need to get involved in this “meta-administration” now.
A few months ago I went on undercover (in my free time) to a meeting for future Heritage Foundation employees (I got a TJO under a fake name). They have absolutely infiltrated the Fed. Be wary friends.
White hoods, Red Hats, Have no Place where freedom lasts
I looked up James sherk. He is an assistant to the president of some sort I believe. Is there precedence to these staffers drafting these types of communication for department heads?
"Outsiders are spoofing OPM using an unsecured unauthorized email server to gather lists of all federal employees" would have been a fucking slam dunk for the Washington Post back when they were a real newspaper. Is there anybody left to report on this?
What I'm taking from this is that there is an unsecured server with (at least) the eMail address of every federal employee on it. Nothing bad can possibly happen from that.
When my coworkers and I all got these emails, we asked each other “does that look weird to you?”
We all ended up reporting it as phishing. Then the head of our IT department sent out a mass email saying “no it’s not phishing, it’s legitimate. Click the link, then reply yes to the email.”
You can tell the memos are not written by a Federal HR employee. The language doesn't match up to Federal law and language. Amanda Scales used to work with Twitter and Uber. She is the POC for all memos. She is the Chief of Staff for OIPM only, no way are her responsibility to be Chief of Staff for all agencies. The memos are coming out from the from division with OPM. They are being drafted by DOGE and people with no Federal experience.
Everyone in my org has had the same comments about the language being so off. Maybe brand new hires couldn't tell but after 3 decades as a Fed it's obvious. Same with the RTO Presidential Memorandum.
Replying yes doesn’t give them your email. They clearly have access to every agencies email distribution lists and therefore active email list.
It has to be for some other purpose aside from collecting email addresses.
My guess is they want to be able to bypass agency and department heads and send emails directly to all federal employees without filters and get responses back to those emails and be able to log those responses automatically. They are testing that they can.
Then there will be a mass email that requires a response under threat of disciplinary action if you don’t. Then they will log those responses for some purpose.
Weird. Almost as if this is exactly what Project 2025 said they were going to do. Almost as if everything they said they were going to do before the election is now happening before our very eyes. Weird how elections work.
We all knew those emails were suspicious. Who in HR writes “much appreciated”? That’s written by an outsider trying to seem like a friend, but is actually operating in bad faith/with ill-intent. A true employee would give “cold regards” energy.
I'm glad someone else noticed that. As soon as I got to the "Much Appreciated" part I was joking around with a fellow coworker that I'm surprised there weren't a few "dudes" and "bros" thrown in to really coax a response.
“Amanda Scales, who until this month worked at Mr. Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, is now chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management, a powerful agency that oversees government hiring.”
Many people were warned up and down and in no uncertain terms that this kind of thing would happen if Trump was allowed to have a second term and still voted for him knowing full well what the consequences would be here.
And for the life of me, I’ll never forgive them for voting as such.
Here’s the text of the OPM whistleblower in easier to share format:
OPM employee here, we are not the bad guys
I’m a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I’m posting this because people need to know what’s going on at OPM.
I’ve been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I’ve never witnessed anything even remotely close to what’s happening right now. In short, there’s a hostile takeover of the federal civil service.
Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President’s henchmen.
The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He’s the friendliest “yes man” you’ll ever meet. He never says no. It’s clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump’s bidding, until they found Chuck.
Under his name, they’ve sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov’t employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn’t even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security.
Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency.
Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It’s been the one sending those various “test” message you’ve all seen. We think they’re building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road.
The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit by bit. Even the IGs are being fired to prevent them from investigating the numerous whistleblower complaints we’ve filed.
Please share this and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We’re just as helpless to stop this as the rest of our fellow public servants. Hopefully someone out there can help us, but it’s looking pretty grim.
This sounds like a hostile takeover. Consider that this approach could be done by a foreign power for espionage. I’m not saying this is definitely the case but Elon and Trump have some strange friends. It’s a “hack” of security.
Whomever is posting the memos to the public OPM website doesn’t know how to scrubmeta data document properties
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Maybe we shouldn't be posting all these pro tips on reddit lol. Clearly they are reading reddit and learning from us.
I wrote a script and downloaded every file on the site as soon as I saw your comment.
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Why is this not being covered by any MSM outlet? I understand Fox blocking it but I expect CNN, etc. to have more of a backbone.
So now there’s a kind of “meta-administration” with zero oversight or accountability that sits between Trump and the agencies, telling everything the agencies must do. Cool cool. Feels like a complete erosion of checks and balances. This has to be super illegal, I know SCOTUS has appeared in the bag for this admin before but wow, Fed employees and unions gotta sue. The courts need to get involved in this “meta-administration” now.
A few months ago I went on undercover (in my free time) to a meeting for future Heritage Foundation employees (I got a TJO under a fake name). They have absolutely infiltrated the Fed. Be wary friends.
White hoods, Red Hats, Have no Place where freedom lasts
Please screenshot! They are messy!
Can you PLEASE give us all a quick 3-step tutorial on how to get the meta data
Jesus Christ. It's open war.
Colleen may not be there any longer; check out her OPM profile page: https://www.opm.gov/about-us/who-we-are/senior-staff-bios/colleen-heller-stein/
Someone needs to send this to the media ASAP! It's tremendous information!
Send it to independent media (The Guardian, etc) or media not owned in this country (BBC, Le Monde, etc.)
And support independent media!
You mean the media that enabled Trump at every step it could instead of holding him accountable?
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This needs to be higher up. Absolutely alarming.
Do journalists know about this?
Yes
Well NOW they know how.
Doesn't really matter at this point. It just shows that this post is legitimate and this guidance isn't coming from OPM.
Wait really? Can you post a screenshot plz
James Sherk, Heritage Foundation
I looked up James sherk. He is an assistant to the president of some sort I believe. Is there precedence to these staffers drafting these types of communication for department heads?
Excuse me? Someone set up an email server and pretended to be a government agency to collect data on our civil servants????
Watch me DEFINITELY delete that email now
Been reporting as phishing since day 1. It violates everything I was taught in my formal infosec trainings.
Makes sense why that said [External]. It’s phishing from inside the house.
"Outsiders are spoofing OPM using an unsecured unauthorized email server to gather lists of all federal employees" would have been a fucking slam dunk for theWashington Post
What I'm taking from this is that there is anunsecured server
When my coworkers and I all got these emails, we asked each other “does that look weird to you?”
We all ended up reporting it as phishing. Then the head of our IT department sent out a mass email saying “no it’s not phishing, it’s legitimate. Click the link, then reply yes to the email.”
I like the part whereAmanda Scales
https://washingtonprogram.ucdavis.edu/alumni/amanda-scales
I deleted both my emails because my union had said that we answer only to our agencies HR.
You can tell the memos are not written by a Federal HR employee. The language doesn't match up to Federal law and language. Amanda Scales used to work with Twitter and Uber. She is the POC for all memos. She is the Chief of Staff for OIPM only, no way are her responsibility to be Chief of Staff for all agencies. The memos are coming out from the from division with OPM. They are being drafted by DOGE and people with no Federal experience.
Everyone in my org has had the same comments about the language being so off. Maybe brand new hires couldn't tell but after 3 decades as a Fed it's obvious. Same with the RTO Presidential Memorandum.
These emails were sent to juridical branch employees too, which are not subject to OPM authority. No OPM employee would make that mistake.
Really wish a journalist would verify this source, publish it, and keep the poster’s identity anonymous.
Sent info to NBC tipline and got this reply.
Replying yes doesn’t give them your email. They clearly have access to every agencies email distribution lists and therefore active email list.
It has to be for some other purpose aside from collecting email addresses.
My guess is they want to be able to bypass agency and department heads and send emails directly to all federal employees without filters and get responses back to those emails and be able to log those responses automatically. They are testing that they can.
Then there will be a mass email that requires a response under threat of disciplinary action if you don’t. Then they will log those responses for some purpose.
Weird. Almost as if this is exactly what Project 2025 said they were going to do. Almost as if everything they said they were going to do before the election is now happening before our very eyes. Weird how elections work.
But Trump disavowed project 2025 during the election!!1! /s
You don’t go to the trouble of making a playbook if you don’t intend to use it.
Has anyone sent this to ProPublica yet?
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We all knew those emails were suspicious. Who in HR writes “much appreciated”? That’s written by an outsider trying to seem like a friend, but is actually operating in bad faith/with ill-intent. A true employee would give “cold regards” energy.
I'm glad someone else noticed that. As soon as I got to the "Much Appreciated" part I was joking around with a fellow coworker that I'm surprised there weren't a few "dudes" and "bros" thrown in to really coax a response.
I refuse to reply to any OPM emails.
Well, this is absolutely terrifying. And to think we were worried about RTO, I just hope I still have a job to which to RTO.
“Amanda Scales, who until this month worked at Mr. Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, is now chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management, a powerful agency that oversees government hiring.”
Source - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/us/politics/musk-doge-government-overhaul.html
Many people were warned up and down and in no uncertain terms that this kind of thing would happen if Trump was allowed to have a second term and still voted for him knowing full well what the consequences would be here.
And for the life of me, I’ll never forgive them for voting as such.
Here’s the text of the OPM whistleblower in easier to share format:
OPM employee here, we are not the bad guys
I’m a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I’m posting this because people need to know what’s going on at OPM.
I’ve been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I’ve never witnessed anything even remotely close to what’s happening right now. In short, there’s a hostile takeover of the federal civil service.
Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President’s henchmen.
The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He’s the friendliest “yes man” you’ll ever meet. He never says no. It’s clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump’s bidding, until they found Chuck.
Under his name, they’ve sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov’t employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn’t even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security.
Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency.
Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It’s been the one sending those various “test” message you’ve all seen. We think they’re building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road.
The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit by bit. Even the IGs are being fired to prevent them from investigating the numerous whistleblower complaints we’ve filed.
Please share this and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We’re just as helpless to stop this as the rest of our fellow public servants. Hopefully someone out there can help us, but it’s looking pretty grim.
This sounds like a hostile takeover. Consider that this approach could be done by a foreign power for espionage. I’m not saying this is definitely the case but Elon and Trump have some strange friends. It’s a “hack” of security.
Elon Musk IS a foreign power.