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It’s one thing to decide that someone’s role is no longer necessary at a company. It’s business, things change, no role is guaranteed to exist forever. But fir
by PragmaticPulp 4y ago
It’s one thing to decide that someone’s role is no longer necessary at a company. It’s business, things change, no role is guaranteed to exist forever.
But firing someone without communication and with HR unable to confirm it is just low. Mocking them on Twitter for their well-documented physical disability is just abhorrent.
This could have been a completely different exchange if the response was a simple “Sorry for the confusion, I’ll look into it and have HR get back to you ASAP.”
- vaidhy 4y agoIt feels like the head of HR is asking elon for confirmation rather than having the information. In a well run company, you have institutional knowledge. In a dictatorship, all institutions are the dictator.
- bediger4000 4y ago> Mocking them on Twitter for their well-documented physical disability is just abhorrent. I agree, but we've allowed our upper class to do this since November 26, 2015.
- rnk 4y agoYou must be referring to the mocking of a reporter by TFG. I wouldn't say we allowed it. We elected one fool, he got almost dictatorial powers. It could literally lead to the end of our country. We are of course stuck in a dictatorship of the electoral collage at this point. Might as well call it the proletariat.
- jsheard 4y agoAn interesting detail with this is that the purchase of Haraldur's design agency was structured as part of his salary at Twitter > In early 2021, Haraldur sold Ueno to Twitter. In an agreement between him and Twitter, most of the purchase price was paid as salary to maximize the tax he would pay for the sale in Iceland, he chose to pay for tax out of respect to Iceland for the disability benefits he received. Per the agreement, he paid the second highest tax of an individual in Iceland in 2021. Elon's focus on the work he was or wasn't doing is almost beside the point, because much of his salary was simply to pay off this debt. Now that he's been fired they'll either have to keep paying his salary anyway, or pay out the probably substantial amount he's owed as a lump sum. Haraldur has alluded to this in his tweets about getting "what he's owed" per his contract. Allegedly he was on a do-not-fire list for this reason, but it's unclear if Elon knew about any of this before jumping on the opportunity to punch down at a subordinate.
- starik36 4y agoWhat was the actual "mock"? I don't see it in the sea of tweets.
- cody_coconuts 4y agohttps://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1632915881499176960 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1632915881499176960 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1633159188787658757 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1633159188787658757 https://www.reddit.com/gallery/11kzn5v https://www.reddit.com/gallery/11kzn5v
- starik36 4y agoThank you. I agree that this hasn't been handled the best way. Nonetheless, the links you presented - I don't see how that's mocking if the person didn't actually do any work. The laughing emoji was in response to Haraldur describing what he did at the company. I just simply wouldn't engage, period.
- Jcowell 4y agoTo be Frank, where I’m from, laughing at someone after they tell you what they do is mocking. Where I’m from, it’s liable to get you robbed, stabbed, or shot depending on the level of disrespect that they feel.
- mbesto 4y ago> But firing someone without communication and with HR unable to confirm it is just low IANAL, but I believe this is also highly illegal.