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Surreal to me to see how many people in this thread and trying to steer the conversation towards whether or not the firing was justified based on his job performance. What the actual fuck does it matter? In what world is it okay to fire someone without communication and then publically mock them like Elon did here? I'm truly unable understand the willingness some people have to jump to the defense of billionaires.

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It's not necessarily in defense of billionaires, it's because other people are just as vile as Musk and feel validated by him being vile in public. See also: Donald Trump.

Elon isn't mocking him - the employee made this public and Elon is defending his choice to fire him. It's interesting how Halli doesn't actually defend that he did any work, because it's clear he didn't. Instead he's tweeting "Let me know if you are going to pay what you owe me?" at Elon, which is only furthering Elon's stance that this dude is looking for a payday and went to publicly smear Elon to bully him into paying out while hamming up his "I built a trillion wheelchair ramps" and other awards.

Yes he's looking for a payday, i.e. the day you get paid for the work you did. He's not looking for extra special bonus dollars, but the dollars he's contractually obligated to get paid for the work he performed while employed. Im honestly struggling to see the issue here.

>> Elon isn't mocking him.

He literally posted a meme joking about how he cant feel his legs

>> It's interesting how Halli doesn't actually defend that he did any work.

Halli needed multiple tweets to fit in the list of major projects he worked on while at the company

> paid for the work he performed while employed

He expects to be paid for the company that Twitter purchased, actually. That he's taking the proceeds as income and not capital gains is an (inverted) tax strategy.

> Elon isn't mocking him

he posted an office space meme in response to him sarcastically.

> It's interesting how Halli doesn't actually defend that he did any work, because it's clear he didn't.

and that is a spurious reach.

It's a meme asking what exactly he did, which is a completely valid question for someone who clearly wasn't working and then launched a public smear campaign to get paid.

> and that is a spurious reach.

Halli himself tweeted that he "did what his manager told him to" but didn't actually say that he did any material work, instead citing that he had been waiting forever from HR without any response. I cannot believe people are trying to defend that this dude was actually working when it's very clear he wasn't.

> It's a meme asking what exactly he did

The meme listed is specifically referencing a car-crash of a downsizing interview a manager of software engineer has in the film Office Space which he ends by screaming that he has "people skills". Its not a valid question, its an immature means of discrediting whatever someone else says next via an inside joke that it seems neither Haraldur or yourself know.

> when it's very clear he wasn't.

Its not at all clear if he was or wasn't. There is extremely limited information in any of these sources that give us a reliable read on this. None of us know how hard Haraldur works or what metric people are using to judge that. That Haraldur is both a director-level acqui-hire as well as very open about his disability, suggests a very broad grey area that I feel you might not be respecting.

You should look at the initial tweets. Haraldur tweeted at Elon because he hasn't been getting any response from Elon or HR for 9 days.

Here's the tweet [0]:

"Dear @elonmusk

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. You've not answered my emails.

Maybe if enough people retweet you'll answer me here?"

[0]: https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632843191773716481?c...

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