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Entertainment on TwitterThis is how a dismissal talk with Elon Musk goes
Haraldur Thorleifsson wasn’t sure if he was still signed to Twitter. After days of radio silence, he finally asked his boss, Elon Musk, directly on the social media platform. An exchange of blows with insults followed.
Haraldur Thorleifsson, who is in a wheelchair due to an illness, started the conversation on Twitter.
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He got an immediate response from Elon Musk – in the end, the Twitter boss apologized to the Icelander.
AFP
That’s what it’s about
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Elon Musk poked fun at an employee on Twitter.
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The explosive: Haraldur Thorleifsson, the employee, suffers from muscular dystrophy.
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Thorleifsson didn’t know if he was sacked.
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Receiving no response, he wrote to Musk on Twitter.
An ex-employee has been left in the dark about his firing by Twitter for days – and only got it poured clean in a bizarre exchange of messages with Elon Musk. According to Haraldur Thorleifsson, he recently logged on to his computer to work. But then he found that he had been locked out of the internal Twitter system. So did 200 other employees.
After nine days, neither HR nor Elon Musk had answered his question as to whether he was still employed by the online platform, so he decided to simply tweet Musk. “Maybe you’ll reply to me here if enough people retweet?” Thorleifsson wrote on Monday.
In fact, the Icelander got an answer and much more. A surreal Twitter exchange with Musk followed. The tech entrepreneur asked Thorleifsson about his work for the short message service and questioned his disability. Thorleifsson suffers from muscular dystrophy and is confined to a wheelchair. Musk also claimed the Icelander has a “prominent, active Twitter account and is wealthy.” Thorleifsson only confronted him publicly because he hoped for a big severance payment.
While Musk and himself were going back and forth, he finally received an email from Twitter saying he was fired. But the turning point came quickly. Musk also wrote on Twitter that he had just had a video conversation with the Icelander. “I would like to apologize to Halli for the misunderstanding. It came from things I’ve been told that aren’t true. Other things were true but unimportant. He’s considering staying on Twitter.
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