Twitter employee says he was fired 'while sleeping' as Elon Musk halves company workforce

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Twitter employee says he was fired 'while sleeping' as Elon Musk takes chainsaw to staff

WSJ Main Street columnist Bill McGurn weighs in on Elon Musk's mass Twitter layoffs as some employees file lawsuit on 'The Evening Edit.'complained on social media that he got fired "while sleeping" after Elon Musk ordered company-wide layoffs on Friday to get Twitter back in the black.

Jaseem Abid, a software engineer, tweeted that he woke up Friday morning and discovered he'd been laid off when he couldn't access Slack and his work email, and found his laptop had been "remotely wiped." "Woke up to no slack/gmail/office access and laptop remotely wiped out. Got fired without even a confirmation email while sleeping? There is always a new low," he wrote.

Musk, who became Twitter's "Chief Twit" last month after completing a $44 billion deal, said the layoffs were necessary because the California-based company was losing more than $4 million per day. A letter to employees

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Sleeping on the job wokester

Well good.

Sleeping on the job?

Why are you sleeping at 9 AM Pacific time

Was he snoring?

ntroy49 If Elon wants to give his business a ‘ clean sweep’... a ‘new look’ ... he’s entitled to make changes... since when .., in any business or institution has ‘ sleeping on the job’ been acceptable?

Doubt it

Well they’ve been jerks to everyone who disagreed with them and created a cesspool of an app. Seems like they should have been fired long ago. Amazing how quick they went from moral superiority to cry for me.

heheheh

Great!

Oh the drama is more like comedy. Get off the sofa and find another job.

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