A software engineer named Eric Frohnhoefer he was at home resting in the afternoon at the beginning of the week when he discovered that he no longer had a job. She did not receive an email or call from her company’s Human Resources department. Instead he received a message from a friend telling him that he had been fired via a tweet from the CEO of his company. that company is Twitter and that CEO, Elon Musk.
The businessman had an (already deleted) tweet about Frohnhoefer that said “He is fired.”
The tweet was probably deleted because California, in particular, has labor laws. very strict rules on how to handle the firing of employees. Twitter’s headquarters are in San Francisco.
Frohnhoefer had worked at Twitter for 8 years, but was fired for daring to question his new boss’s knowledge of the platform.
Earlier that day, Elon posted another tweet in which he apologized that Twitter was allegedly operating very slowly in many countries and blamed the site’s programming. Frohnhoefer replied “I have worked 6 years on Twitter for Android and I can say that this is false.”
When Musk asked the engineer for more technical information, he gave it to him. The next day the worker realized that all access to Twitter systems had indeed been withdrawn.
Frohnhoefer wasn’t the only one fired for questioning Musk
Until the arrival of the new CEO at Twitter, the company’s culture was based, according to Frohnhoefer, on keeping conversations open and working together on solutions.
“Obviously, he didn’t see it that way,” the engineer said in an interview with NPR.
This dismissal for questioning has not been the only one. According to the medium PlatformerOther employees were fired “for their behavior” in pointing out some of Musk’s mistakes.
Musk is already under fire for his mismanagement of personnel. Within a week of becoming Twitter’s CEO, the world’s richest man purged workers across the globe less than a week after taking office. He has received hundreds of lawsuits from workers who did not receive the 60-day notice legally required in the United States when a job is lost (in exchange they were given three months’ pay).
On Wednesday, he sent Twitter’s remaining workers an ultimatum to work a very hard 80-hour week or quit and receive three months’ pay. According to various reports, 75% of the 3,700 remaining workers at Twitter chose to resign.
Analysts in the technological world are pointing out that now Twitter no longer has the necessary employees to continue operating, which caused the hashtag this Thursday and Friday #RIPTwitter became a global trend. Even platforms like Tumblr, Mastodon and Discord registered a record increase in users due to people who decided to leave the bird’s social network.
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