Clockwork Elon

More on Elon Musk. These graphics are from the Rachel Maddow Show about a week ago:

So that gives an idea how little of a "mandate" there is for Musk's actions.

This illustration is by Barry Blitt, who frequently graces the cover of the New Yorker:

I've been trying to get details on how "probationary" is defined in federal employment, and as I suspected it's not what one might assume (like a newly hired employee who's been with an agency for less than six months). No... it includes people promoted into a more senior role, so those could be people who've been at an agency for decades. 

I also saw mention of an attorney at one agency who had passed his year-long probation period about a month earlier, who recently got notice that the probation period was changing to two years and that he was therefore being fired. 

A one-year probation period seems pretty extreme, and two years (with no notice) is obviously absurd, and I imagine violates an applicable bargaining agreement.

People are also being fired ostensibly because they have had under-performed at their jobs, when there is no documentation in their personnel files to support that claim, and in fact their files show the exact opposite. That sounds like a raft of lawsuits for illegal firing, which we the taxpayers will have to pay for. How much money will that save?