Elon Musk’s heated exchange with a former employee who was fired ‘without notice’ goes viral on Twitter (Photo Credits: Twitter)
Haraldur Thorleifsson, who was recently employed at Twitter, logged into his computer last Sunday to get some work done – only to find himself locked out along with 200 other people
If You’re Not Told You’re Fired, Are You Really Fired? On Twitter, maybe. And then, sometimes, you get your job back—if you want it.
Haraldur Thorleifsson, most recently employed at Twitter, logged into his computer last Sunday to get some work done — only to find himself locked out along with 200 other people.
He may have guessed, as have others before him, in the chaotic months of layoffs and firings since then. Elon Musk The company took over, that he was out of a job.
Instead, after nine days of no response from Twitter as to whether or not he was still employed, Thorleifsson decided to tweet at Musk to see if he could get the billionaire’s attention and the status of his Schrödinger job. can get the answer.
“Maybe if enough people retweet you’ll reply to me here?” he wrote on Monday.
Eventually, she got her answer after a surreal Twitter exchange with Musk, who proceeded to quiz her about her work, questioning her disability and need for accommodations. dystrophy and uses a wheelchair) and tweets that Thorleifsson has a “prominent, active Twitter account and is wealthy” and that “the reason he publicly confronted me was to get a big payoff.” While the exchange was underway, Thorleifsson said he received an email that he was no longer employed.
Late Tuesday afternoon, though, Musk had a change of heart.
“I want to apologize to Halli for my misunderstanding of her position. It was based on things I was told were untrue or in some cases true, but not meaningful,” he tweeted. “He is considering staying on Twitter.”
Thorleifsson did not immediately respond to a message for comment following Musk’s tweet. In an earlier email, he called the experience “surreal”.
“You had every right to fire me. But I would have liked to have been told!” he tweeted to Musk.
Thorleifsson, who lives in Iceland, has about 151,000 Twitter followers (more than Musk’s 130 million). He joined Twitter in 2021, when the company acquired Uno, his startup under former management.
He was praised in the Icelandic media for receiving the purchase price in wages rather than a lump sum payment. This is because in this way, he would be paying higher taxes to Iceland to support its social services and safety net.
Thorleifsson’s next move: “I’m opening a restaurant in downtown Reykjavik very soon,” he tweeted. “It’s named after my mother.”
Twitter did not immediately respond to a message for comment.
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