A Twitter employee not sure about his employment standing on the firm resorted to tweeting at Elon Musk on Monday, prompting the CEO to reply by mocking the person.
Haraldur Thorleifsson, an innovation crew lead for the social media large, mentioned Monday that he’d misplaced entry to his work laptop 9 days earlier than. But his emails to firm representatives concerning his employment standing went unanswered, he mentioned, and the top of human sources was “not capable of verify if I'm an worker or not.”
So he tagged Musk in his tweet, hoping to flag the eye of the individual in cost.
In subsequent posts, Thorleifsson added that he has been working for Twitter from Reykjavik, Iceland, ever because the firm’s 2021 acquisition of Ueno, a enterprise he based.
Musk responded hours later. “What work have you ever been doing?” he requested.
Thorleifsson replied by first noting he “would want to interrupt confidentiality” to reply, to which Musk responded succinctly, “It’s authorised, you go forward.”
When Thorleifsson proceeded to element his current work on the firm, together with some efforts he credited with saving Twitter vital quantities of cash, Musk replied with a collection of skeptical questions.
He punctuated the trade with two laughing emoji earlier than continuing to mock the person, who has muscular dystrophy, in different threads.
“The fact is that this man (who's independently rich) did no precise work, claimed as his excuse that he had a incapacity that prevented him from typing, but was concurrently tweeting up a storm,” Musk replied to at least one person, who had described the CEO’s trade with Thorleifsson as “essentially the most entertaining exit interview I’ve ever witnessed.”
Musk added: “Was he fired? No, you may’t be fired in case you weren’t working within the first place!”
Thorleifsson stayed on message as Musk trolled him elsewhere on the platform. In a prolonged thread, he recounted the circumstances that led to his employment at Twitter, which included promoting Ueno as the results of his muscular dystrophy worsened, diminishing the usage of his palms.
After Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, Thorleifsson talked to his supervisor each week about what to give attention to after which proceeded to do all of these issues, he recalled. He mentioned he additionally commonly requested HR about his job description and tasks ― however by no means acquired a reply.
“To be clear. You might have each proper to put me off. That’s completely truthful and nice,” he tweeted at Musk. “However normally persons are informed when that occurs. Possibly with a letter or one thing.”
Thorleifsson additionally alleged that Twitter nonetheless owed him cost. That’s a typical grievance among the many firm’s former workers, lots of whom say they’ve been stiffed on promised severance.
As a substitute of addressing Thorleifsson’s claims, Musk piled on with one other tweet Tuesday because the Twitter spat started to go viral. Within the final little bit of irony, Musk attacked Thorleifsson’s credibility, saying he “has a outstanding, lively Twitter account and is rich.”
Musk is the richest individual alive and is notoriously delicate about his personal Twitter engagement.
In the meantime, Thorleifsson had posted an image of himself as he welcomed all of the “new associates” he’d gained amid the feud.
“I don’t thoughts the unhealthy phrases,” he tweeted. “They truthfully don’t trouble me. In the event that they provide help to really feel higher then you need to use them. Take pleasure in your day!”
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