Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks on the SATELLITE convention and exhibition on March 9, 2020 in Washington DC.
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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks on the SATELLITE convention and exhibition on March 9, 2020 in Washington DC.
Susan Walsh/AP
SAN FRANCISCO. If you weren’t instructed that you simply have been fired, are you actually fired? Most likely on Twitter. After which, typically, you get your work again – if that is what you need.
Haraldur Thorleifsson, who till just lately labored at Twitter, logged into his laptop final Sunday to work solely to search out that he was blocked together with 200 different customers.
He could have realized, as others have earlier than him, within the months of layoffs and layoffs chaos since Elon Musk took over that he was out of a job.
As a substitute, after 9 days of no response from Twitter about whether or not he was nonetheless working, Thorleifsson determined to tweet Musk to see if he might get the eye of the billionaire and get a solution to the scenario together with his Schrödinger job.
“Possibly if sufficient individuals retweet, you possibly can reply to me right here?” he wrote on Monday.
He finally acquired his reply after a surreal Twitter trade with Musk, who started questioning him about his work, questioning his incapacity and want for lodging (Torleifsson, recognized by the pseudonym “Hally”, suffers from muscular dystrophy and makes use of a wheelchair. armchair) and tweeted that Thorleifsson has a “well-known, lively Twitter account and is wealthy” and “the explanation he confronted me in public was to get a giant payout.” Whereas the trade was occurring, Thorleifsson stated he obtained an e-mail saying he was now not working.
However late Tuesday night, Musk modified his thoughts.
“I want to apologize to Halley for misunderstanding his scenario. It was primarily based on issues I used to be instructed that weren’t true or in some instances true however did not make sense,” he tweeted. “He is contemplating staying on Twitter.”
I want to apologize to Hallie for my misunderstanding of his scenario. It was primarily based on issues I used to be instructed that weren’t true or, in some instances, true however did not make sense.
He’s contemplating staying on Twitter.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 7, 2023
Thorleifsson didn’t instantly reply to a message concerning the remark after Musk’s tweet. In an earlier e-mail, he known as the expertise “surreal”.
“You had each proper to fireside me. However it could be good to let me know!” he wrote to Musk.
Thorleifsson, who lives in Iceland, has about 151,000 followers on Twitter (Musk has over 130 million). He joined Twitter in 2021 when the corporate, beneath its former administration, acquired his startup Ueno.
He was praised by the Icelandic media for selecting to obtain the acquisition worth within the type of wages moderately than a lump sum. It’s because on this approach he pays larger taxes to Iceland in assist of its social companies and safety system.
Thorleifsson’s subsequent transfer: “Very quickly I am opening a restaurant in downtown Reykjavik,” he tweeted. “It is named after my mother.”
Twitter didn’t instantly reply to the message for remark.
