Elon Musk (the a-hole) apologizes after taunting laid-off Twitter employee with disability

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Last edited Wed Mar 8, 2023, 07:54 AM - Edit history (1)

SAN FRANCISCO — If you’re not told you are fired, are you really fired? At Twitter, probably. And then, sometimes, you get your job back — if you want it.

Haraldur Thorleifsson, who until recently was employed at Twitter, logged in to his computer last Sunday to do some work — only to find himself locked out, along with 200 others.

He might have figured, as others before him have in the chaotic months of layoffs and firings since Elon Musk took over the company, that he was out of a job.

Instead, after nine days of no answer from Twitter as to whether or not he was still employed, Thorleifsson decided to tweet at Musk to see if he could catch the billionaire’s attention and get an answer to his Schrödinger’s job situation.

“Maybe if enough people retweet you’ll answer me here?” he wrote on Monday.

Eventually, he got his answer after a surreal Twitter exchange with Musk, who proceeded to quiz him about his work, question his disability and need for accommodations (Thorleifsson has muscular dystrophy and uses a wheelchair) and tweet that Thorleifsson has a “prominent, active Twitter account and is wealthy” and the “reason he confronted me in public was to get a big payout.” While the exchange was going on, Thorleifsson said received an email that he was no longer employed.

Link to tweet

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-taunts-wheelchair-bound-twitter-employee-he-laid-off-a694d8a6

[Meowmee]

1. Better to talk to people than tweet, lol

For once the fascist psycho said something accurate.

[C_U_L8R]

2. He only apologized for misunderstanding

Not for being a raging asshole. Blamed it on getting bad info. A real shitheel.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Trustafarians tend to act that way.

[Dr. Shepper]

3. Elon apologists just suck

I cannot understand the worship.

[CentralMass]

6. +1

[Bengus81]

4. Like his bud Trump,shifting blame and taking no real responsibility

And....glad he made the statement to a person with muscular dystrophy.

Peas in a psycho pod....

[Emrys]

5. Musk knows so little about Twitter that he didn't realize Halli is on a "do not fire" list

When Halli sold his company to Twitter, he chose to take payment as a salary rather than stocks or a lump sum. The terms of the contract mean that if he's fired, the balance of the sale sum (if not more) becomes payable, amounting to millions of dollars.

Three other vested founders were also summarily fired and locked out of their Twitter email systems. It remains to be seen if they'll also be offered reinstatement, and if so, whether they or Halli will accept it.

This is aside from the fact that Musk's Twitter interaction with Halli contravened various employment laws.

More details here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=17709190

[CentralMass]

7. Whatever else ge maybe Musk is a horrible human being.