After nine days of being locked out of his Twitter work computer, Haraldur Thorleifsson tweeted at owner Elon Musk to find out whether or not he’d been fired. Eventually he got his answer.
When a Twitter employee didn't receive notice he'd been fired, he turned to Elon Musk for confirmation. What ensued was a viral public exchange where Musk grilled the man about his work— and questioned his disability.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has apologized for mocking a disabled Twitter employee who he accused of doing "no actual work" and said was "the worst," when the senior employee asked if he was still employed at the company after being locked out of his work accounts and devices.
The billionaire owner of Twitter apologized after publicly questioning a Twitter employee's query about whether he had been laid off and speaking dismissively of that employee's disability.
The Twitter CEO told former employee Haraldur Thorleifsson, Iceland's literal person of the year, that he was sorry for “misunderstanding” his situation and offered him his job back.
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