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Musk leaks confidential health information on disabled employee he fired

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I don't understand this constant desire to label people as useless/coasting.

I really abhor the mentality that every single person at a company must be busy at all given times throughout the day/week/year/tenure of employment. There’s no off-season, there’s no holiday time, there’s no sick leave - you're just supposed to always be working. On what?

This boneheaded idea is the reason why we are an overworked society heading towards dystopia.

As I see in that thread, he speaks openly about his disabilities in great detail. I don't see Elon leaking anything confidential.

https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633082707835080705

Musk tweets

> The reality is that this guy ... 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.

Then five hours later Halli explains his disability in detail. The sequence of events is key. You can't assume that just because someone shared something later it wasn't confidential before.

Maybe Halli didn't want to share anything, but felt he had to in response to his disability becoming a public talking point.

And even if he didn't, employers don't get to share confidential health info based on the assumption that the employee will probably disclose it anyway.

> The sequence of events is key.

You are missing that this guy is an extremely rich and famous person in Iceland. He was Icelands man of the year 2006, is the 2nd richest man in Iceland, everyone knows about his disabilities. And then he claimed to Elon he cannot type, whilst typing tons of Twitter threads in the same time.

Elon's behavior was childish, but the outrage is even more outrageously silly.

That whole thread is the most effective ripping on Musk I've seen yet, and it's something he's going to read. Normally I'd say someone wouldn't respond to that but this is Elon :popcorn:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1633011448459964417

Some of the replies to Musks tweet are pretty abhorrent. I've never really understood the Musk worship but I don't understand how his public undoing of Twitter hasn't destroyed that imagine of him.

This comment it almost comical if it wasn't so bad.

https://twitter.com/adamnpeck/status/1633094222654889985

I wanted to say "The guy's the biggest government welfare recipient of all time"

or "he probably wouldn't have had to fire the guy if he didn't run the company into the ground"

Even the original exchange is just so childish, cruel, and unprofessional.

I would love to hear the astronomical value that his followers think they personally provide versus the people that Elon publicly humiliates.

What's one more lawsuit? Get in line.

I'd like to say nothing Musk says or does surprises me anymore, but this is so unnecessary, petty, unprofessional, and likely illegal it seems like a new low.

I’ve only ever seen Elon shitting on people and falsely accusing them of having no value. Or he hypes scammers and grifters.

Can anyone link a thread where Elon supports someone who has real value? Or is his head so far up his ass that he thinks only he is valuable?

Headline seems incorrect. Halli has tweeted for years about his disability and how he lived on disability assistance. Can publicly available information you've shared to hundreds of thousands of people be regarded as confidential and thereby leaked?

If you're an employer who has let someone go, you would have to be mentally deficient to mention anything regarding their disability in relation to their employment or firing.

I hope Halli can use Elon’s cruel tweets in court and get some retribution.

Elon was this guys employer. He seemingly laid him off with zero communication. After inquiring (clearly not intending to do so publicly first) on if he was actually laid off, Elon responds by ridiculing the guys disability.

The problem isn't exactly leaking the information (although that is also still bad for what amounts to "don't be a fucking dickhead" and maybe some other laws, but I guess most people are used to Musk just not caring about either of those and if that was the argument, putting former employees on blast like that is extremely bad form either way), the problem is that this is the sorta thing that leaves employment lawyers salivating at an unjust termination lawsuit because Elon basically wrote the textbook argument as to why the ADA exists here.

EDIT: Oh might as well add, but apparently this guy was also on the "do not fire" VIP list because actually firing him would put the company in actual dire financial straits since they now need to pay out the entire exit package at once.

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