Twitter CEO had questioned former staffer about his work, incapacity and want for lodging.
When you’re not instructed you're fired, are you actually fired? At Twitter, in all probability. After which, typically, you get your job again — if you need it.
Haraldur Thorleifsson, who till lately was employed at Twitter, logged in to his laptop final Sunday to do some work — solely to search out himself locked out, together with 200 others.
He may need figured, as others earlier than him have within the chaotic months of layoffs and firings since Elon Musk took over the corporate, that he was out of a job.
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 Schrödinger’s job state of affairs.
“Perhaps if sufficient folks retweet you’ll reply me right here?” he wrote on Monday.
Ultimately, he obtained his reply after a surreal Twitter trade with Musk, who proceeded to query him about his work, incapacity and want for lodging (Thorleifsson, who goes by “Halli,” has muscular dystrophy and makes use of a wheelchair) and tweet that Thorleifsson has a “outstanding, lively Twitter account and is rich” and the “motive he confronted me in public was to get an enormous payout”. Whereas the trade was happening, Thorleifsson stated he acquired an e mail that he was not employed.
Late Tuesday afternoon, nonetheless, Musk had a change of coronary heart.
“I wish to apologize to Halli for my misunderstanding of his state of affairs. It was based mostly on issues I used to be instructed that have been unfaithful or, in some instances, true, however not significant,” he tweeted. “He's contemplating remaining at Twitter.”
Thorleifsson didn't instantly reply to a message for remark following Musk’s tweet. In an earlier e mail, he referred to as the expertise “surreal”.
“You had each proper to put me off. However it could have been good to let me know!” he tweeted to Musk.
Thorleifsson, who lives in Iceland, has about 151,000 Twitter followers (Musk has greater than 130 million). He joined Twitter in 2021, when the corporate, beneath the prior administration, acquired his startup Ueno.
He was lauded in Icelandic media for selecting to obtain the acquisition value in wages reasonably than a lump sum payout. That’s as a result of this manner, he would pay increased taxes to Iceland in help of its social providers and security internet.
Thorleifsson’s subsequent transfer: “I’m opening a restaurant in downtown Reykjavik very quickly,” he tweeted. “It’s named after my mother.”
Twitter didn't instantly reply to a message for remark.
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