{"id":49607,"date":"2023-03-08T00:32:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T00:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/08\/elon-musk-mocks-laid-off-twitter-employee-with-disability\/"},"modified":"2023-03-08T00:34:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T00:34:11","slug":"elon-musk-mocks-laid-off-twitter-employee-with-disability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/08\/elon-musk-mocks-laid-off-twitter-employee-with-disability\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk mocks laid-off Twitter employee with disability"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In case you\u2019re not informed you’re fired, are you actually fired<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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By<\/span>BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Expertise Author<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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SAN FRANCISCO — <\/span>In case you’re not informed you’re fired, are you actually fired? At Twitter<\/a>, most likely. <\/p>\n

Haraldur Thorleifsson, who till just lately was employed at Twitter, logged in to his laptop final Sunday to do some work \u2014 solely to search out himself locked out, together with 200 others.<\/p>\n

He might need figured, as others earlier than him have within the chaotic months of layoffs and firings since Elon Musk<\/a> took over the corporate, that he was out of a job. <\/p>\n

As a substitute, 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 Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s job scenario. <\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps if sufficient folks retweet you\u2019ll reply me right here?\u201d he wrote on Monday. <\/p>\n

Finally, he bought his reply after a surreal Twitter alternate with Musk, who proceeded to quiz him about his work, query his incapacity and want for lodging (Thorleifsson has muscular dystrophy and makes use of a wheelchair) and tweet that Thorleifsson has a \u201coutstanding, energetic Twitter account and is rich” and the \u201cmotive he confronted me in public was to get a giant payout.\u201d Whereas the alternate was occurring, Thorleifsson stated acquired an electronic mail that he was now not employed.<\/p>\n

Thorleifsson, who lives in Iceland, has about 141,000 Twitter followers (Musk has over 130 million). He joined Twitter in 2021, when the corporate, below the prior administration, acquired his startup Ueno. <\/p>\n

He was lauded in Icelandic media for selecting to obtain the acquisition value in wages quite than a lump sum payout. That is as a result of this fashion, he would pay larger taxes<\/a> to Iceland in assist of its social providers and security web. <\/p>\n

Thorleifsson tweeted to Musk that \u201cThe rationale I requested you in public is since you (or anybody else at Twitter) didn\u2019t reply to my non-public messages.”<\/p>\n

\u201cYou had each proper to put me off. However it will have been good to let me know!\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

Thorleifsson’s subsequent transfer: \u201cI\u2019m opening a restaurant in downtown Reykjavik very quickly,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cIt\u2019s named after my mother.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/article>\n

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