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Topics: Politics, Social Media, Technology, US News, Donald Trump
Emily Brown
Topics: Politics, Social Media, Technology, US News, Donald Trump
Thousands of federal workers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are said to have received an offensive email seemingly about Donald Trump after the government’s human resources department sent a message offering staff the chance to resign.
The email containing an expletive allegedly went out after the US office of personnel management (OPM) sent an email to nearly three million employees offering 'deferred resignation', which would go into effect at the end of September.
The OPM email warned those who rejected the offer that the office 'cannot give [them] full assurance regarding the certainty of [their] position or agency' going forwards.
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"Should your position be eliminated you will be treated with dignity and will be afforded the protections in place for such positions," the email said, per The Guardian.
Additional reports of the email indicate that federal workers were given the opportunity to take the OPM up on its offer simply by replying to the email with the word 'Resign' in the subject line.
And this is the exact word featured in the subject line of a now-viral email which has been shared by independent journalist Ken Klippenstein.
In a post shared on Twitter, Klippenstein claimed the 'derogatory email' went out to 'all 13,000 federal employees of the NOAA' due to a new communication system which has recently been put in place.
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The body of the email, sent by an employee who had apparently had enough after Trump's arrival in office, simply read: "Aren't you tired of working for a complete c***?"
According to Klippenstein, one NOAA employee said of the email: “Goes to show you how fast this [new comms system] was cobbled together - no security or screening on this address."
After employees received the critical email, NOAA Deputy Director of Communications Scott Smullen is said to have apologized to staff who received it.
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According to the Mail Online, he told staff in a memo: 'I'm sorry this happened to us. I will report it.'
Testing out the ability to contact thousands of federal employees at once, Klippenstein then claimed he himself sent out an email to all 13,000 federal employees of the NOAA, writing: "The Trump administration's changes to their communications system made it so literally anyone can blast messages out to the entire agency."
Klippenstein apparently isn't the only person apparently taking advantage of this system.
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A post on the subreddit 'FedNews', which is made for 'sharing news and information regarding the inner workings of the US Federal Government for Federal Employees', claimed that workers are being 'spammed with ads, explicit, and simply weird emails' in the wake of the new system.
UNILAD has reached out to the NOAA for comment.