Elon Musk’s Twitter reign has infamously been riddled with multiple rounds of layoffs, technical glitches, poor communications and ineffective policy changes. The most recent round of cuts at the company have affected hundreds of employees, including designer Haraldur Thorleifsson—but he didn’t know for sure if he had been sacked because it took the company nine days to tell him.
At Musk-led “Twitter 2.0,” staffers had been fired via tweets or simply lost access to their accounts and devices without notice in the past. So, Thorleifsson went on Twitter to ask the platform’s “chief twit” for answers, and actually got a direct answer from the CEO —only to have Musk dismiss his role at the company.
But on Tuesday, Musk went even further and replied to a tweet commenting on the back and forth between the Twitter CEO and Thorleifsson, attacking him and implying he was being deceptive about a disability.
“The reality is that this guy (who is independently wealthy) did no actual work, claimed as his excuse that he had a disability that prevented him from typing, yet was simultaneously tweeting up a storm,” Musk wrote.
The reality is that this guy (who is independently wealthy) did no actual work, claimed as his excuse that he had a disability that prevented him from typing, yet was simultaneously tweeting up a storm.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 7, 2023
Can’t say I have a lot of respect for that.
