Justifying Your Job To The Whole

[GailL1]

  Many Federal employees are being asked in an email to describe their job, describe what they did last week and to what benefit for the country is your job.

This doesn’t seem to be too much of an imposition - everybody should know what they do and what benefit they give to the whole.  Right?

Would you answer this email ASAP or just disregard it?  

Think about your current or last job - would you be able to supply such info?

Too much to ask?

[GAKKIEZ]

This is nothing new. Many employees are asked to provide (sometimes daily) productivity reports. This is valid (especially with so many employees working remotely). 

Yes, I would gladly answer and provide the information requested. I've done it! This was required back in the 1990s.

We've all experienced long wait times when calling a company or we hear animals in the background on a call or an employee can't answer a question (and does not have immediate resources to answer).

[papawofboo]

To me it is a 3-part question, the first two are simple, right? I think that the only way my job benefited the country is the fact that I worked, earned a salary, and spent money. By me doing that it helped create more jobs. 

I'm at a lost as to how this request does any good. First, who is going to read all those e-mails, and is that persons job a benefit to the country? I'm sure that there is a lot of waste in the government and things need to change. But, I worked in the grocery business, I saw us go from getting checked by the health department, the weight and measurement dept., etc., about once a month. Unless a customer complains about something and takes the time to report it to a department, well we didn't see them. Now it's every week there is a recall on something from food, baby food, cars, and the list goes on. The only one who can check on these companies and protect us is the government. I believe that they need to get the people out of the office and into the field.

[nctarheel]

I was sent an email one time regarding the five things I had done the last week and responded thusly:

(1) I put my left foot in.

(2) I took my left foot out.

(3) I put my left foot in.

(4) And I shook it all about.

(5) And I did the hokey pokey.

After all, isn't that what it's all about?????