Elon Musk’s Heated Exchange With a Former Employee Who Was Fired ‘Without Notice’ Goes Viral on Twitter (Photo Credits: Twitter)
Haraldur Thorleifsson, who till lately was employed at Twitter, logged in to his laptop final Sunday to do some work — solely to search out himself locked out, together with 200 others
If you’re not instructed you might be fired, are you actually fired? At Twitter, most likely. And then, generally, you get your job again — if you’d like it.
Haraldur Thorleifsson, who till lately was employed at Twitter, logged in to his laptop final Sunday to do some work — solely to search out himself locked out, together with 200 others.
He might need figured, as others earlier than him have within the chaotic months of layoffs and firings since Elon Musk took over the corporate, that he was out of a job.
Instead, after 9 days of no reply from Twitter as as to if or not he was nonetheless employed, Thorleifsson determined to tweet at Musk to see if he might catch the billionaire’s consideration and get a solution to his Schrödinger’s job scenario.
“Maybe if enough people retweet you’ll answer me here?” he wrote on Monday.
Eventually, he bought his reply after a surreal Twitter trade with Musk, who proceeded to quiz him about his work, query his incapacity and wish for lodging (Thorleifsson, who goes by “Halli,” has muscular dystrophy and makes use of a wheelchair) and tweet that Thorleifsson has a “distinguished, energetic Twitter account and is rich” and the “reason he confronted me in public was to get a big payout.” While the exchange was going on, Thorleifsson said he received an email that he was no longer employed.
Late Tuesday afternoon, however, Musk had a change of heart.
“I would like to apologize to Halli for my misunderstanding of his situation. It was based on things I was told that were untrue or, in some cases, true, but not meaningful,” he tweeted. “He is considering remaining at 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 lay me off. But it would have been nice to let me know!” he tweeted to Musk.
Thorleifsson, who lives in Iceland, has about 151,000 Twitter followers (Musk has over 130 million). He joined Twitter in 2021, when the company, under the prior management, acquired his startup Ueno.
He was lauded in Icelandic media for choosing to receive the purchase price in wages rather than a lump sum payout. That’s because this way, he would pay higher taxes to Iceland in support of 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 mom.”
Twitter did not immediately respond to a message for comment.
Read all the Latest Business News here
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is revealed from a syndicated information company feed)
