Twitter CEO Elon Musk sank to a new Sir David Alexander Cecil Low on Monday Nox when he laughed at employee Haraldur Thorleifsson , who nip at him to ask whether he had been bear upon by the company โs late layoffs . Throughout the course of their conversation on Twitter , Thorleifsson confirmed the worst : His day at Twitter were over .
Thorleifsson , founder ofUeno , a digital agency acquired by Twitter in 2021 , found himself caught in a Musk - produced chaos a little more than a hebdomad ago , when he dead lose admission to his work computer . The Ueno founding father stated that he ask Twitter โs human resources section whether he still had a job but was tell they did nโt know . After e-mail Musk himself to no help , Thorleifsson decided to do the next good thing . Hetweetedat the Twitter CEO .
โ Dear @elonmusk ๐ 9 days ago the access to my body of work computer was cut , along with about 200 other Twitter employee , โ Thorleifsson order on Monday good afternoon . โ However your school principal of HR is not able-bodied to substantiate if I am an employee or not . You โve not answered my emails . mayhap if enough mass retweet you โll do me here ? โ

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Dear@elonmusk ๐
9 days ago the accession to my work computer was cut , along with about 200 other Twitter employee .
However your head of HR is not able to confirm if I am an employee or not . You ’ve not answered my email .

Maybe if enough people retweet you ’ll resolve me here ?
โ Halli ( @iamharaldur)March 6 , 2023
Musk started by asking Thorleifsson , who is ground in Iceland , what kind of study he had been doing . Thorleifsson stated that he could nโt discuss that publicly on Twitter without prior commendation from Musk โs lawyer , which Musk flourish off , giving him permission in a tweet . The employee fit on to list a number of matter he was responsible for at the fellowship , including heading the effort to save $ 500,000 on a SaaS declaration , leading critiques to level up figure across the fellowship , serving as the hiring manager for all design part , and prioritise plan project to accommodate Twitter โs belittled team .

A infamous micromanager , Musk proceeded to call for for more detail and then reply to Thorleifsson with two โ ๐คฃ ๐คฃ โ emojis .
๐คฃ ๐คฃ
โ Elon Musk ( @elonmusk)March 7 , 2023

In a follow up tweet , Musk pelt Thorleifsson with questions and demand pictures of the employee โs work .
โ Level up from what figure to what ? Pics or it did nโt happen , โ the foreman twitsaid . โ We have nโt hired design roles in 4 months . What changes did you make to serve with the youth ? โ
Thorleifsson told Musk thathe could nโt provide motion-picture show or docsbecause Twitter had locked his computer , adding that he could provide documentation if Musk restored his access to the gimmick . After talking to Musk for about an hour , Thorleifsson nip that Twitter human resources had โ miraculously โ answer to confirm that he no longer wreak at the fellowship .

Musk , meanwhile , apparently unsatisfied with laughing at a former employee , decided to junk talk Thorleifsson time of day after their exchange . The Twitter CEO puke doubt on Thorleifsson โs handicap โ he suffers from a type of powerful dystrophy calleddystrophinopathy โ and said he could nโt have been fired since he did nโt work .
On his website , Thorleifsson explains that he uses a wheelchair and is slowly mislay strength in his upper body and arm .
โ The realness is that this guy ( who is independently wealthy ) did no actual employment , claimed as his excuse that he had a handicap that forestall him from type , yet was at the same time tweeting up a tempest . Ca nโt say I have a lot of respect for that , โ Musktweeted . โ But was he arouse ? No , you ca nโt be fired if you were nโt working in the first place !

But was he provoke ? No , you ca nโt be fire if you were nโt working in the first space !
โ This was nโt a trouble in Twitter 1.0 since I was a older manager and my job was mostly to facilitate teams move forwards , give them strategical and tactical direction , โ Thorleifssonstated . โ I โm typecast this on my telephone btw . It โs easier for because I only involve to use one finger . โ
When it comes to being laid off , Thorleifsson say he was hunky-dory with that and stated that these things happen . Companies in cosmopolitan permit multitude know when they โve been pose off , he mention , โ but that โs seemingly the optional part at Twitter now . โ His next step is finding out whether Twitter would ante up him what he โs owed per his contract .

According toTechCrunch , Thorleifsson and other founders of companies Twitter had acquire in the yesteryear had antecedently been on a โ do not evoke โ list because it would be too expensive to pay out their going packages . Former product manager and Squad beginner Esther Crawford , who made headlines in November forsleeping at Twitter โs offices to meet Musk โs deadlines , was also reportedly on the list . She was laid off last week along with Breaker founder Leah Culver and Revue founder Martijn de Kuijper .
Gizmodo reached out to Thorleifsson for commentary on the spot on Tuesday dawn but did not have a reaction by the time of publication .
Update 2025-02-12 , 8:43 a.m. ET : This C. W. Post has been updated to include Thorleifsson โs reply to Musk about his muscular dystrophy .

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