chirrup proprietor Elon Musk can total another championship to his already long list : Big Brother . On Tuesday , the social media boss showed his employee that he was always watch over what they were saying on Twitter ’s internal channels , especially if they were talking bang about him .
“ I would like to apologize for firing these maven . Their immense talent will no doubt be of great habit elsewhere , ” Musk tweeted Tuesday around lunch period .
Nick Morgan , a former package engineer at the company who worked as the tech tip of the Tweet Service , post a screenshot on Tuesday of the midnight electronic mail he received from human resources .
Big brother is in the bird house.Photo: Aaron Favila (AP)
“ We regret to inform you that your exercise is fire in force immediately , ” the e-mail articulate . “ Your late behaviour has plunder company policy . ”
🫡pic.twitter.com/0HkKC0cA6 K
— Nick Morgan ( pasquinade ) ( @skilldrick)November 15 , 2022
Morgan , who had been with Twitter for more than 11 yr , according to his LinkedIn profile , tweeted that he believed he was sack for “ not showing 100 % commitment in slack . ” The software engineeraddedthat he had get word of the same thing occur to numerous other former colleagues .
Sasha Solomon , astaff software engineerand co - tech lead of Twitter ’s Core API platform team , also said she had been fired for “ shitposting . ”
“ lol just got fired for shitposting . i said it before and i ’ll say it again . kiss my ass elon , ” Solomontweetedon Tuesday .
lol just got dismiss for shitposting
i said it before and i ’ll say it again
kiss my ass elon 💋
— electronic mail protectedNovember 15 , 2022
@nickrw , a Twitter engineer , and Jesse Feinman , a older software program engineer , alsoadded theirnamesto the list of hoi polloi give the axe for shitposting on Tuesday .
“ Same , the best agency to go ! ” Feinman pinch , adding to Solomon .
https://twitter.com/embed/status/1592393471985614849
The midnight firings get along one day after the Twitter possessor provoke Eric Frohnhoefer , a software engineer who had been at the fellowship for more than eight years , via tweet on Monday . Over the weekend , Musk also firedabout 4,400of Twitter ’s 5,500contract workers .
Frohnhoefer had publicly pushed back against Musk ’s explanation over why Twitter was running slow in some country , stating plainly that his boss was awry . What ensued was a back - and - Forth River in which Musk demanded to get it on what the genuine trouble was and asked Frohnhoefer what he had done to fix Twitter ’s speed on Android .
I have drop ~6yrs shape on Twitter for Android and can say this is wrong.https://t.co/sh30ZxpD0N
— Eric Frohnhoefer ( @EricFrohnhoefer)November 13 , 2022
finally , a third user commented on the public exchange between Frohnhoefer and Musk , put forward “ with this sort of attitude , you probably do n’t want this cat on your team . ” Within aminute , Musk responded , “ He ’s fired . ” The billionaire then deleted the “ He ’s burn ” tweet , even though everyone had see it .
Before the first turn of layoffs , employees were reminding each other to keep their heads down and out of the way of Musk .
If they got laid off , they ’d get severance . But if they pushed back against Elon ? They ’d get fired . No severance .
Very normal work environment.pic.twitter.com/o9dQAHJCPn
— Tim Onion ( @oneunderscore__)November 14 , 2022
“ This is what happens when you fire everyone that could give you advice which would , hypothetically , terminate you from embarrass yourself in public , ” @nickrw said .
This is what bump when you fire everyone that could give you advice which would , hypothetically , stop you from blockade yourself in public.https://t.co/t9otteyaD0
— nickrw ( @nickrw)November 14 , 2022
All in all , it seems like Musk is getting close to ditching email and quag and running Twitter entirely on Twitter . He ’s used the platform to crowdsource ill , debate changes toproduct gens , and , most recently , fire employee who disagree with him or call him out on his son of a bitch . When it amount to employee , though , this likely wo n’t be the last sentence we hear about rebellion .
“ Tweeps that are still utilize , at this time : If your personal position allows for it , it is your moral duty to disobey . To hit . To dissent . To quote squeeze Elon when he lie on Twitter , ” @nickrwtweetedon Tuesday . “ To keep looking after each other . ”
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