Bari Weiss Just Sent an Elon Musk-Style Memo to CBS Staffers

[Celerity]

Weiss is apparently looking to keep tabs on her new colleagues.

https://newrepublic.com/post/201641/bari-weiss-elon-musk-cbs-memo

https://archive.ph/lRf2B



Bari Weiss must have pulled a lot of management inspiration from the Department of Government Efficiency. The new editor in chief of CBS News issued a memo to staff Friday, ordering them to send her memos by Tuesday denoting how they spend their workdays and what they believe could be improved.

“By the end of day Tuesday, I’d like a memo from each person across our news organization,” Weiss said in a copy of the email obtained by Semafor’s Max Tani. “I’m not looking for a JD or words like synergy. I want to understand how you spend your working hours—and, ideally, what you’ve made (or are making) that you’re most proud of. I’m also interested in hearing your views on what’s working; what’s broken or substandard; and how we can be better. “Then I’ll use your memo as a discussion guide for when I meet with most of you (ideally, all of you if time permits) in the coming few weeks,” Weiss added.

That strategy is remarkably similar to the one employed by Elon Musk when he ran DOGE. The parallels weren’t lost on CBS staffers, either: One lamented to Status newsletter writer Oliver Darcy, “We just got Elon Musk-ed.” In February, Musk ordered federal employees across the government to email his office weekly summaries of their achievements. Failure to do so, under Musk’s rule, would be grounds for immediate firing.

The mandate was remarkably unpopular and scantily enforced by agency heads—some of whom butted up against Musk for making demands outside of his purview as a special government employee. The program met its quiet demise in August, when the Trump administration officially axed it—months after Musk was forced out.

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[Nigrum Cattus]

1. Why doesn't she do her job and find that out for herself ?

All that is going to do is make every one look for
a new job where they are appreciated.

[question everything]

2. And is dressed like Bezo's sqeeze, showing her bra?

[True Dough]

3. CBS now stands for

Cavalierly Bullying Staff

Good luck to those serving under her!

[C_U_L8R]

4. Sounds like a real amateur

At least when it comes to team management.
But perhaps a pro at creating chaos and division.

[Iris]

7. Yep. This is a stupid waste of time.

[Marie Marie]

5. How original of her. But she needs that info about what people do because as Keith Olberman put it:

Her only experience in television is turning it on (or something like that.) Bill Maher had her on a few years ago and couldn't stop gushing over and expressing his long admiration for her. Tells me all I need to know. Watch how quickly she tanks CBS and gets removed.

[themaguffin]

6. She's not only terribly unqualified, but she's a morally bankrupt grifter.

[odins folly]

8. I used to get crap like this every year

At review time. I honestly couldn’t pull a list together from the top of my head because at work I take care of what needs to be taken care of….

I used to go through my Send folder in email for the past year so I could go “oh yea, and I fixed that”…

As someone above mentioned, get your ass out on the floor and look for yourself to see what your folks are doing…

[clevergrrrl]

9. I get "Daddy bought me a newspaper" vibes from her

she's way way way out of her league.