Elon Musk Backtracks After Learning New Information About Employee He Mocked

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has reversed his course following mockery of an employee this week on the platform, after receiving updated information.

Musk mocked Haraldur Thorleifsson appeared on the platform following Thorleifsson’s public call. He stated that his access was cut to his work resources and had no idea whether he was still employed by the company.

Following a back and forth exchange of tweets, someone who claimed to know the employee sent Musk a message: “As someone who has worked directly with @iamharaldur during a turnaround, this is super disappointing to see. Not only is his work ethic next level, his talent and humility are world class. Exactly the kind of person you want on your team when the odds are stacked. I feel certain there’s a deep misunderstanding somewhere in here of ‘did no actual work’.”

“Based on your comment, I just did a videocall with Halli to figure out what’s real vs what I was told. It’s a long story. Better to talk to people than communicate via tweet,” Musk replied. “I would like to apologize to Halli for my misunderstanding of his situation. It was based on things I was told that were untrue or, in some cases, true, but not meaningful. He is considering remaining at Twitter.”

Halli, I am sorry for misinterpreting his situation. This was due to things that I heard were false or in certain cases true but unmeaningful.

Twitter has offered him the possibility of staying.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 7, 2023

Musk began to exchange ideas with his employee after he wrote a tweet naming Musk. “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,” Thorleifsson said. “You’ve not answered my emails. Maybe if enough people retweet you’ll answer me here?”

“What work have you been doing?” Musk was asked.

“I would need to break confidentiality to answer this question here,” Thorleifsson responded. “If you have your lawyers share in writing that I can do that then I’d be happy to discuss that openly!”

“It’s approved, you go ahead,” Musk replied.

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Thorleifsson replied by listing a number of accomplishments he claims he has made, which included:

• Contributed to the efforts of saving approximately $500k on a SaaS contract. Many others were closed down
• We prioritized design projects in the company so that we could achieve our goals with a smaller team.
• Design crits for led design to improve design throughout the company
• All design positions were supervised by a hiring manager
• I worked on efforts to shift the focus of our company from power users to young users, as we have an aging user base.

Thorleifsson continued, saying that the head for human resources “just miraculously” I replied to him, and he agreed. “that I no longer work at Twitter!!”

Musk replied to the list of claims with questions, suggesting some were incorrect.

“Which SaaS contract exactly?” Musk was asked. “Prioritization of what design projects?”

“Level up from what design to what?” Musk was asked. “Pics or it didn’t happen.”

“We haven’t hired design roles in 4 months,” He went on. “What changes did you make to help with the youths?”

Musk tweeted a video from the clip. “Office Space” A situation in which an employee has to be asked his job duties for the company. This causes a major meltdown.

“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,” Musk stated. “Can’t say I have a lot of respect for that.”

“He has a prominent, active Twitter account and is wealthy. The reason he confronted me in public was to get a big payout,” Musk did not stop there. “From what I’ve been told, he’s done almost no work for the past four months, middle-management or otherwise. Despite his claims on Twitter that he did work, it turns out he told HR that he couldn’t work because he couldn’t type, but was, over the same period, typing up a storm on Twitter. Yet there are many people on Twitter defending him. This hurts my faith in humanity.”

“But was he fired? No, you can’t be fired if you weren’t working in the first place!” He added.

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