Elon Musk is facing heavy criticism on Twitter Tuesday morning (May 7) after an exchange with an employee took a turn that shocked many. Musk was seen questioning the person’s disability and dismissing them in what some viewed as insulting.
Elon Musk, 51, was called out by former Twitter designer Halli Thorleifsson in a tweet asking if he was fired from the company after losing access to his work computer.
Dear @elonmusk [waving emoji]. 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?” Thorleifsson tweeted on Monday (May 6).
Dear @elonmusk
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?
— Halli (@iamharaldur) March 6, 2023
Thorleifsson’s thread also contained a message for former Twitter CEO and founder Jack Dorsey.
“Hi @jack. I would really appreciate your help on this one. My company was acquired on your watch and I joined because I believed in what you were building,” Thorleifsson added.
Gaining Musk’s attention, the Twitter boss asks, “What work have you been doing?” in the thread to which Thorleifsson fired back with, “I would need to break confidentiality to answer this question here. If you have your lawyers share in writing that I can do that then I’d be happy to discuss that openly!”
Another Twitter user, Alex Cohen, who tweets under @anothercohen, shared a screengrab of the exchange between Musk and Thorleifsson and got a response from Musk.
“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. Can’t say I have a lot of respect for that,” 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.
Can’t say I have a lot of respect for that.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 7, 2023
Truthfully, it appears that Elon Musk is determined to bring the once-mightly social media platform to its knees and there are even reports that he currently walks about Twitter headquarters with bodyguards in tow, according to a new piece from The Daily Beast.
On Twitter, folks are giving the Telsa founder the business. Keep scrolling for those reactions.
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Halli is an award winning designer whose company was acquired by Twitter.
Halli was born with muscular dystrophy in a working class family. He chose a higher tax rate for the sale to pay back into the Icelandic social system.
Today, Elon Musk publicly mocked and fired him. https://t.co/tUSaxZ4oYL pic.twitter.com/GREC8cgLtx
— Max Berger (@maxberger) March 7, 2023
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Every employment lawyer on the planet watching Elon disclose an employee's disability, claim he's faking it, and state it was part of why he was fired. pic.twitter.com/DYO3qW0rKG
— Zane Schacht – Voice Goblin
(@VoicesByZane) March 7, 2023
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This is absolutely disgusting. Ridiculing him publicly this way. It’s even worse when you read about who Elon is ridiculing. https://t.co/btVkcCmIJo https://t.co/HurVOe27xn
— April (@ReignOfApril) March 7, 2023
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plaintiff side employment lawyers looking at elon like he’s a juicy christmas ham pic.twitter.com/gXoAiTe4xm
— in the pocket of Big Tenant (@AllezLesBoulez) March 7, 2023
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Elon Musk is doing "pics or it didn't happen" to his own employees pic.twitter.com/yf6AniuWuP
— The Serfs (@theserfstv) March 7, 2023
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This is the saga of Elon musk firing and then making fun of a disabled employee to his 130 million followers https://t.co/WjhX6nP7px
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) March 7, 2023
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Elon fans are extremely mad at this guy because he had the audacity to ask for clarity on his employment status at twitter. That's all it took for them to post replies like this pic.twitter.com/841ctgAEA7
— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) March 7, 2023
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insane detail here where Elon doesn't recognize the name of Figma, a company that twitter has a SaaS contract with, and just thinks that the guy is doing a bit or something. Unreal incompetence https://t.co/fhvijSyGx0
— Kingofied Tomato (@LegoKingo) March 7, 2023
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Elon Musk mocking an employee for their disability when that employee was asking for updates on their employment status is so par for the course of a man with no depth. pic.twitter.com/JcPXgEkg6M
— OneTopic (@OneTopicAtATime) March 7, 2023
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It’s just perfect that Elon wants his tweets at the top of all our pages, and today this former twitter guy absolutely destroying him is at the top instead pic.twitter.com/1SbLPsTM2Y
— Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPHilll) March 7, 2023
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Is this about …. The disabled Icelandic employee who Twitter acquired his company in 2021 that elon ghosted to let him know he was fired… my god https://t.co/GZXCtp2Lvt
— Public Defendering (@fodderyfodder) March 7, 2023
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Elon is sharing confidential health information about his ex employees to attack them publicly https://t.co/MJ7h8fD5Fq
— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) March 7, 2023
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your reminder that Elon Musk is not an engineer, Donald Trump is not a successful businessman, and January 6 was not some happy-go-lucky tourist romp
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) March 7, 2023
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Elon so completely doesn’t understand Twitter or human beings that he made a former employee the main character of this whole app, and pissed him off, so the top of everyone’s feed is a former twitter employee throughly wrecking Elon. It’s glorious in a way.
— Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPHilll) March 7, 2023
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The only thing Elon Musk is good at is being a stupid fucking asshole.
— The USA Singers (@TheUSASingers) March 7, 2023
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