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TexasTowelie

(112,226 posts)
Wed Jan 25, 2023, 06:39 PM Jan 2023

Elon Musk Fired Immigrant Janitors via Text After Twitter Takeover - More Perfect Union



Twitter abruptly fired dozens of janitors—mostly immigrants & women of color—with no warning or explanation. Workers received a text just before leaving work informing them they shouldn’t return. Just like Twitter’s mass layoffs earlier this year, it was likely illegal.
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Elon Musk Fired Immigrant Janitors via Text After Twitter Takeover - More Perfect Union (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2023 OP
What does the immigration status/sex/race of the janitors have to do with the firing? kelly1mm Jan 2023 #1
I knew someone whose famiy fired the "laundry woman" by dropping her last check down the Peregrine Took Jan 2023 #2
He texted them personally? Cracklin Charlie Jan 2023 #3

kelly1mm

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1. What does the immigration status/sex/race of the janitors have to do with the firing?
Wed Jan 25, 2023, 06:54 PM
Jan 2023

is it less bad since they are not native born? More bad because they are mostly women? The same because they were POC?

Isn't the firing and how it was done in and of itself the issue?

Peregrine Took

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2. I knew someone whose famiy fired the "laundry woman" by dropping her last check down the
Wed Jan 25, 2023, 07:03 PM
Jan 2023

laundry chute with a "don't come back" note attached.

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