Employee uses Liz Truss’s lettuce joke to poke fun at Twitter layoffs

Just a week after Elon Musk completed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, the social media giant will begin laying off staff members today. In an internal email to its employees, Twitter said that employees will receive an email Friday to alert them about the reductions in staff. Needless to say, the fear among employees about their job security is palpable. While some are grappling with uncertainty, others are drowning in memes about their job security. One such tweet drawing a strange analogy between former UK PM Liz Truss’s lettuce joke and the unpredictability of jobs on Twitter is gaining traction online. Interestingly, lettuce has become a global caricature of the 47-year-old Conservative leader’s 45 days in office as British Prime Minister. Going by the same logic, a Twitter user is probably wondering whether wet salad will last longer than his job at Mr. Musk’s company.

In the viral tweet, the employee shared a picture of lettuce and a tablet with the Twitter logo. He tactfully asks which one will last longer – along with his job does his employee login to Twitter or Lettuce? He writes, “My employee login @ Twitter vs Lettuce.. Let’s Gooooo.” And we know all too well who won last time!

Check out the tweet here:

my employee login @Twitter vs salad
let’s get angry pic.twitter.com/bgkZiLmH8T

— Sheon Han (@sheonhan) 3 November 2022

The Daily Star, a British tabloid newspaper, asked via Twitter who would last longer – British Prime Minister Liz Truss or the head of Wet Lettuce? The tabloid also set up a live feed and dropped an unsophisticated iceberg next to a photo of Ms Truss. “Which wet salad will last longer?” it asked in a Twitter video post. Truss resigned six days later, and Lettuce was declared the winner.

Coming back to Twitter, as The Verge reports, while the memo doesn’t detail how many workers will lose their jobs, Mr Musk is expected to cut Twitter’s roughly 7,500-person workforce in half. .

“We believe this will impact the many people who have made valuable contributions to Twitter, but this action is unfortunately necessary to further the company’s success,” said an email from the company.

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