The sideshow circus of Elon Musk's Twitter has hit another monumental low this week as the CEO openly mocked, then fired a disabled employee via tweet. The only word I can come up with right now is 'hellscape.' And we're living in it. If I didn't have to be online all day everyday, I would've deleted Twitter a long time ago. But here we are.
Haraldur Thorleifsson claimed that he had access to his computer cut and was genuinely curious if he still had a job at Twitter or not. HR had not answered his emails, so he took to the app itself to reach out. Here is the original tweet.
Dear @elonmusk
— Halli (@iamharaldur) March 6, 2023
9 days ago the access to my work computer was cut, along with about 200 other Twitter employees.
However your head of HR is not able to confirm if I am an employee or not. You've not answered my emails.
Maybe if enough people retweet you'll answer me here?
Elon then responded.
What work have you been doing?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 7, 2023
- led design crits to help level up design across the company
— Halli (@iamharaldur) March 7, 2023
- was hiring manager for all design roles
- worked on efforts to steer the company away from focusing on power users and on to younger users (because our user base is aging)
- Level up from what design to what? Pics or it didn’t happen.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 7, 2023
- We haven’t hired design roles in 4 months
- What changes did you make to help with the youths?
Would you say that you’re a people person?https://t.co/kLD9NWHVIT
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 7, 2023
"Pics or it didn't happen" would be a perfectly acceptable answer if Elon hadn't cut Haraldur's computer access. You see how little Elon pays attention, and just how easily the talking in circles begins.
You locked my computer. I don't have access to any pics or docs. If you want to have it opened I can get you things.
— Halli (@iamharaldur) March 7, 2023
Haraldur was basically relegated to unemployment over a Twitter battle with Elon Musk, as opposed to - oh you know - an email from HR. Musk then doubled down on his stupidity.
Did you just fire a guy for having muscular dystrophy?
— Gabe Rosenberg (@Gaber205) March 7, 2023
You read that correctly. Musk in his infinite wisdom either doesn't give a shit, or has no clue what MS does to the human body. Thankfully Haraldur gave us some insight.
Hi again @elonmusk
— Halli (@iamharaldur) March 7, 2023
I hope you are well.
I’m fine too. I’m thankful for your interest in my health.
But since you mentioned it, I wanted to give you more info.
I have muscular dystrophy. It has many effects on my body.
Let me tell you what they are: https://t.co/2vb16kP6Yv
My legs were the first to go. When I was 25 years old I started using a wheelchair.
— Halli (@iamharaldur) March 7, 2023
It’s been 20 years since that happened.
In that time the rest of my body has been failing me too. I need help to get in and out of bed and use the toilet
But as I told HR (I'm assuming that's the confidential health information you are sharing) I can't work as a hands on designer for the reasons outlined above.
— Halli (@iamharaldur) March 7, 2023
I'm typing this on my phone btw. It's easier for because I only need to use one finger.
There's total ownage, and then there's what Halli just did to Elon Musk. Bodybagged. Maybe if Elon wasn't so obsessed with trying to make people laugh all the time, he'd have a few minutes to answer a simple email and avoid being absolutely embarrassed on his own app.
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