Elon Musk responded to a Twitter employee who was unsure whether he had been laid off in a recent round of cuts by publicly mocking his disability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Haraldur Thorleifsson tweeted Musk to say his access to his work computer had been disabled nine days ago and that he didn’t hear back from human resources<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He tweeted at Musk: \u201cHowever your head of HR is not able to confirm if I am an employee or not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou\u2019ve not answered my emails. Maybe if enough people retweet you\u2019ll answer me here?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read More: Elon Musk regains and loses the world\u2019s richest man title in just 48 hours<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Musk responded by asking: \u201cWhat work have you been doing?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the threads on Monday and Tuesday, Thorleifsson wanted to know if he was still an employee at the firm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He joined Twitter when the social media company bought his design firm, Ueno, in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thorleifsson said he was leading the prioritization of design projects across the organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Musk later tweeted that the design manager<\/a><\/strong> \u201cdid no actual work, claimed as his excuse that he had a disability that prevented him from typing, yet was simultaneously tweeting up a storm.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read More: Twitter reportedly lays off another 200 employees<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thorleifsson replied that he has muscular dystrophy, a disorder that causes muscle weakness and, as a result, is unable to type for long periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis wasn\u2019t a problem in Twitter 1.0 since I was a senior director, and my job was mostly to help teams move forward, give them strategic and tactical guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m typing this on my phone btw. It\u2019s easier for because I only need to use one finger.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLet me know if you are going to pay what you owe me? I think you can afford it?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Read More: Twitter facing lawsuits over $14 million in unpaid bills<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Musk has provoked outrage at Twitter and Tesla over working conditions and the aggressive manner in which he has been known to interact with staff online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He tweeted on Tuesday, saying it \u201churts my faith in humanity\u201d that people were defending Thorleifsson online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Musk, the world\u2019s second-wealthiest man<\/a><\/strong>, is also a power user of the site he purchased for $44 billion in October. <\/p>\n\n\n\n With followers of over 130 million, he uses the site to make major company announcements and sometimes gets in conflict with regulators and advertisers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since taking over Twitter, Musk has laid off thousands of people<\/a><\/strong>, sacked most of its leadership, and given more attention to Twitter that Tesla shares have fallen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Need Career Advice?<\/strong> Get employment skills advice at all levels of your career<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The social media giant<\/a><\/strong> has become a chaotic workplace with little communication from the company during the spate of job cuts, notes several current and former employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Musk seems to have altered his tune about his former employee by Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He tweeted that he was having a video conference with Thorleifsson to \u201cfigure out what\u2019s real vs what I was told.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a tweet, Musk apologized to Thorleifsson for \u201cmy misunderstanding of his situation\u201d and said Thorleifsson was considering staying at the firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: <\/strong>The Washington Post<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on YouTube<\/strong><\/a>, Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>, and Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Haraldur Thorleifsson tweeted Musk to say his access to his work computer had been disabled nine days ago and that he didn’t hear back from human resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":42178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1372,2456],"tags":[686,977,329],"class_list":["post-38158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-employment-news","category-twitter-news","tag-elon-musk","tag-layoffs","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}