I work for the Federal Government (DoD). The new push to have everyone respond to the OSD request for 5 bullets of “what you did last week” was supposedly because “they wanted to make sure the employees actually exist” and aren’t dead or fake. However, I had a colleague send me a whole PowerPoint presentation he made on how to use chat GPT (the government version) to read our PD (position description that basically says everything you should be doing for your job) along with your list of things you completed and then rewrites it to ensure it matches what you should be doing.

His reasoning for doing it that way is:

“DOGE has full access to the Global Address List (GAL) as well as other HR resources. This means they know who works where and everything about everyone’s position Description (including what the expectations are for that position). In reorganizations, there exists the possibility to downgrade positions. This can only be done by understanding what work the person is performing. The “5 bullets” is how they’re going to get that information from everyone in DoD, which means we must be smarter than the system and make sure our input matches what they’re measuring”

Essentially, he came up with a prompt to write the bullets to match our position to prevent them from punishing us due to misunderstanding the assignment or not putting the correct tasks in the bullets email. Honestly, there was no guidance and I do way more than 5 things a week, so I wasn’t sure what to include and just kind of picked things at random. Hopefully, I didn’t screw myself since we’ve already sent 2 emails for the last 2 weeks. Starting Monday, I’m using his method to ensure I’m playing the game correctly.

I’m glad I know smart people.