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Based on the note he posted from HR he was fired for cause and wasn’t “laid off” by the usual definition of same — he was told by HR that he had violated several company policies and his employment was being terminated immediately.

[1] https://ma.nu/blog/img/2022-11-01_bye_twitter/termination_em...

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Apparently some of the layoffs in Twitter are being portrayed as for cause[1], which follows the trend of SpaceX's layoffs that tried not to be classified as layoffs by instead firing employees for cause.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/29/technology/twitter-layoff...

Yeah given the context I think it is obvious that he got fired for advertising an extension that makes it easier to download your emails.

Have you seen the cartoons? I think the extension was probably the "last straw"

Cool that the new free speech-haven twitter doesn't allow advertising extensions internally or cartoons.

Some proponents of free speech really only care if their speech is curtailed and care little about anyone else's.

The "for cause" thing is just to save money. I don't think the reason matters as long as there was some reason Elon could use.

> Cool that the new free speech-haven twitter doesn't allow advertising extensions internally or cartoons

See his recent complaint that advertisers are bailing after his Paul Pelosi bullshit. He at least asserts the belief that he's entitled to advertisers, I guess because his "free speech" means everyone else loses freedom of association, or something.

I cancelled my Tesla due to the Paul Pelosi tweet. It was the last straw. Was supposed to be picking the car up tomorrow after waiting seven months. It makes me sad because I love the car, we sold our 2021 to buy a 2023, but I just can’t stand to be associated with Elon or support him/send him money. I don’t think I’m alone in feeling like this. He represents to me some of the absolute worst things about the world I see and the exact opposite of how I want the world to be headed.

No offense but it is sad that it took you this long to figure it out and cancel the order.

I guess I kept trying to ignore it, the car is that good and I loved not using fossil fuels and how cheap it was to drive it.

In my defense, he has ramped up his horrible behavior greatly in the last six or seven months to a near crescendo now.

Sharing so much information about a company you work for publicly may have been considered a fireable offense. Gives hackers a lot of insight on how to infiltrate a company and what their weaknesses may be.

What did he share?

Details about internal tools and structure that only someone on the inside would have knowledge about. I'm not saying they aren't known already but it is a slippery slope when you decide to share information about your employer publicly... Here probably not enough in itself but if I recall there was some other things that led up to the firing.

Are you referring to the comics? I’m sure that they were discussed prior to him joining. He ran the Google comic for years.

I'm referring to the blog post link that was part of this comment thread. Did you read it?

The blue not-really crossing out of the data of the other persons involved is great. My god, who wouldn't love to work with such an individual.

Hmm, you have a way to pull email addresses out of that picture?

Yes, I'm not sure highlight it by saying anything more is worthwhile, but yes it's possible to pull the name from this. Interestingly for me at least not the email, but still

haha, I'll be danged

Manu definitely screwed up when he censored that message. I don't think it was intentional, but considering that he's a world class software engineer and he's writing a blog post for software engineers, he should have done a better job

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