One of Elon Musk's austerity operatives discovered that the government has far less glut than he'd banked on — and admitting so publicly got him fired. Sahil Lavingia, a tech founder and erstwhile software engineer with Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), revealed in a recent blog post that he had "got[ten] the boot" from the agency after telling Fast Company last month that the federal workforce was way more efficient than he anticipated. In that initial interview, the Gumroad founder said he was impressed to find that his coworkers at the Department of Veterans Affairs "love their jobs" and worked […]