Tuesday 15 November 2022 05:56 PM Elon Musk unceremoniously FIRES workers who criticized him in company Slack ... trends now
Snarky Elon Musk has apologized for dramatically firing more than a dozen Twitter employees who criticized him on an internal messaging system.
The axed tech workers were informed by email that they had been 'terminated immediately' because they 'violated company policy'.
They allegedly made critical comments about the new CEO on the company's Slack messaging system - resulting in them being laid off by the new billionaire boss.
And the new Twitter leader confirmed the culling himself - saying that he would 'like to apologize for firing these geniuses.'
Musk sarcastically said that their 'immense talent' can be used elsewhere.
Platformer, a news outlet which covers social networks, reported 'around 20 people have been fired so far for their Slack posts'.
Elon Musk admitted that he fired the Twitter workers after staff were informed by email that they had been 'terminated immediately'
One Twitter employee posted the email they received from HR
One former staff member tweeted out a screenshot of the unceremonious sacking email from Twitter HR - which read: 'We regret to inform you that your employment is terminated effective immediately.
'Your recent behavior has violated company policy. Our operations team will be reaching out to your with offboarding instructions.'
It comes after Musk, who completed a $44 billion buyout of the social media platform in October, apparently fired an employee publicly via Twitter.
The nature of the criticism posted to Slack by the culled employees is not immediately clear.
One ex-employee tweeted on Tuesday that they were 'officially fired by Twitter'.
Yao Yue, a software engineer, was reportedly one of those who criticized Musk on Slack.
'After 12 amazing years and 3 weeks of chaos, I’m officially fired by Twitter. Never expected I would have stayed this long, and never expected I would be this relieved to be gone.
'I have a lot of stories to tell. But to my fellow (ex-)tweeps. #LoveWhereYouWorked'
Other reports about the alleged firings say some of those let go were 'respected software engineers', including one who was told they were axed for 'recent behavior'.
The latest cull comes after Musk publicly fired software engineer Eric Frohnhoefer on Monday.
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