Government agency removes spoon emoji from job platform following protests.

On Thursday, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) decided to remove the spoon emoji from the list of options on its video conferencing platform. This decision came a day after employees widely used that emoji to express their discontent with the resignation offer proposed by the Trump administration, titled "A Fork in the Road." This offer, similar to a message Elon Musk sent to Twitter employees after acquiring the platform, invites government workers to resign in exchange for a payment that would extend until September.

The proposal has received strong backlash from federal employees and labor unions. In a virtual meeting that gathered 600 people and was led by Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer, workers from the GSA’s Technology Transformation Services division responded with a flood of spoon emojis in the chat. Additionally, some employees have chosen to add a spoon emoji to their Slack status as a form of silent protest.