The point that I made remains. He was not fired by singling him out for being disabled. He was fired as part of a larger workforce reduction. He should not be singled out but neither does his handicap provide him immunity. This is what equality looks like.
Just keep in mind the following pertinent legal points regarding Elon's public abuse of an employee with disabilities.
There is no legal point there. on the tweet shown. Don't mistake twitter warriors banter for law. Anyway, your background and affiliations require you to see a victim wherever you look so I am not going to try to turn that around. Probably some gays, trans-freaks etc were part of the layoffs too. This is afterall San FranSicko so they will all have big sorry arse victim stories too.
This is what happens when you have an inexperienced junior engineer take the place of 20 very experienced technologists. So apparently all of Twitter only has one junior site reliability engineer available for projects -- who continually messes up with bad deployments thus taking down the site. Sounds pretty sad. What does each multi-hour worldwide outage cost in revenue? Seeing that Musk claims they currently earn 6 cents per hour per user on the site. In other news Musk claims the Twitter platform is brittle and needs the code needs to be re-written. Well, it was not brittle until Musk purchased Twitter. Prior Musk, Twitter had better uptimes than any other major social network on the face of the planet in recent years. In fact, Twitter used to be where you went to discuss other networks being down. Apparently Musk does not understand the basics of micro-services and how modern enterprise software architecture works. His assertions are laughable --- as is his vision to build Twitter based on a closely tangled ball of spaghetti code with no API calls. How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday The high cost of cutting expenses https://www.platformer.news/p/how-a-single-engineer-brought-down Twitter’s website is breaking in novel new ways — and while the company managed to recover from its latest outage within a couple hours, the story behind how it broke suggests there are likely to be similar problems in the near future. On Monday morning, Twitter users logged on to find a thicket of connected issues. Clicking on links would no longer open them; instead, users would see a mysterious error message reporting that “your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint.” Images stopped loading as well. Other users reported that they could not access TweetDeck, the Twitter-owned client for professional users. Chaos took over the timeline, as users tweeted vociferously about the outage — often illustrating their points with images that no one could see, because they wouldn’t load. In a tweet, the company offered the vaguest of explanations for what was happening. “Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now,” the company’s support account tweeted. “We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences.” The change in question was part of a project to shut down free access to the Twitter API, Platformer can now confirm. On February 1, the company announced it will no longer support free access to its API, which effectively ended the existence of third-party clients and dramatically limited outside researchers’ ability to study the network. The company has been building a new, paid API for developers to work with. But in a sign of just how deep Elon Musk’s cuts to the company have been, only one site reliability engineer has been staffed on the project, we’re told. On Monday, the engineer made a “bad configuration change” that “basically broke the Twitter API,” according to a current employee. The change had cascading consequences inside the company, bringing down much of Twitter’s internal tools along with the public-facing APIs. On Slack, engineers responded with variations of “crap” and “Twitter is down – the entire thing” as they scrambled to fix the problem. Elon Musk was furious, we’re told. “A small API change had massive ramifications,” Musk tweeted later in the day, after Twitter investor Marc Andreessen posted a screenshot showing that the company’s API failures were trending on the site. “The code stack is extremely brittle for no good reason. Will ultimately need a complete rewrite.” Some current employees are sympathetic to that view, which places at least part of the blame for Twitter’s problems on technical failures that predate Musk’s ownership of the company. The fail whale became an icon of the old Twitter for a reason. “There’s so much tech debt from Twitter 1.0 that if you make a change right now, everything breaks,” one current employee says. Still, when Musk took over the company, he promised to dramatically improve the speed and stability of the site. His associates screened the existing staff for their technical prowess, ultimately cutting thousands of workers who were deemed not “technical” enough to succeed under Musk’s leadership. But nonstop layoffs have left the company with under 550 full-time engineers, we’re told. And just as former employees have predicted from the start, the losses have made Twitter increasingly vulnerable to catastrophic outages. Monday’s errant configuration change was at least the sixth high-profile service outage at Twitter this year: On January 23, Android users temporarily couldn’t load new tweets or post them. On February 8, an error message told users that they were “over the daily limit for sending Tweets,” preventing them from posting. On February 15, tweets stopped loading. On February 18, the timeline broke and replies disappeared. On March 1, the timeline stopped working. “This type of outage has become so frequent that I think we’re all numb to it,” a current employee says. And those are only the service outages. Other issues, such as the one that led Musk’s tweets to be made more visible on the timeline than any other user’s, have also roiled the user base. In many ways, Monday’s outage represented the culmination of Musk’s leadership at the company so far. In a single-minded effort to cut costs on his $44 billion purchase, he has been slashing the staff and reducing Twitter’s free offerings. This paved the way for a single engineer to be staffed on a major project — one that is linked to several interconnected, critical systems that both users and employees depend on. And with few knowledgeable workers on hand to restore service, it took Twitter all morning to fix the problem. “This is what happens when you fire 90 percent of the company,” another current employee says. Inside Twitter’s HQ, however, the mood was almost light. “We’re laughing all the way down,” says a different current employee. Elsewhere in Twitter: The company’s revenue was down 40 percent in December, it told investors. And that was back when the site used to work! Amazon threatened to withhold payments for the ads it runs on Twitter because Twitter has refused to pay its Amazon Web Services bill “for months.” A month after promising to share revenue with Twitter Blue subscribers for the ads that appear under their tweets, nothing of the sort has happened.
So Musk doubles down and continues to hurl insults at a world-renown former disabled employee. It is clear that Musk was simply trying to make a case that the employee was fired with cause in an attempt to avoid paying out what Halli Thorleifsson is contractually due from the purchase of his company, Ueno, by Twitter. Musk's lawyer must have told him he is still obligated to pay the contractual agreed to money for Twitter purchasing Thorleifsson's company. Now it appears that Musk is still trying to find a way to fire Thorleifsson with cause instead of being part of a layoff to avoid paying out the money. It should be noted that Musk was also opening the door for much greater legal trouble by hurling insults at a disabled employee on Twitter and revealing the employee's confidential information. Let's take a look at some of what Musk shoveled over the past 24 hours. And let me ask again - Is this any way for a CEO to behave? 'In a subsequent tweet, he added: “But was he fired? No, you can’t be fired if you weren’t working in the first place!”' 'In yet another tweet, Musk wrote: “He has a prominent, active Twitter account and is wealthy. The reason he confronted me in public was to get a big payout. From what I’ve been told, he’s done almost no work for the past four months, middle-management or otherwise."' '“Despite his claims on Twitter that he did work, it turns out he told HR that he couldn’t work because he couldn’t type, but was, over the same period, typing up a storm on Twitter."' '“Yet there are many people on Twitter defending him. This hurts my faith in humanity.”' Musk continues to insult former employee then apologizes https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/elon-musk-twitter-icelandic-halli-b2296310.html Elon Musk has apologised after a humiliating exchange in which he appeared to mock a disabled Twitter worker. Mr Musk had accused his employee of doing no actual work, of being “the worst” and more – after he had asked whether he was still employed by Twitter, having apparently failed to get a response any other way. The Twitter boss said that he had received bad information about the situation, and had now had a video call with the affected staff member to apologise. Icelandic entrepreneur Halli Thorleifsson – who sold his company to Twitter and has been voted as the country’s person of the year – had sent a direct public tweet to the billionaire after he was locked out of his work’s computer system, telling Musk he could not get HR to respond to him. Musk had responded with a tweet which appeared to question Mr Thorleifsson’s claim, before saying: “The reality is that this guy (who is independently wealthy) did no actual work, claimed as his excuse that he had a disability that prevented him from typing, yet was simultaneously tweeting up a storm. Can’t say I have a lot of respect for that.” In a subsequent tweet, he added: “But was he fired? No, you can’t be fired if you weren’t working in the first place!” In yet another tweet, Musk wrote: “He has a prominent, active Twitter account and is wealthy. The reason he confronted me in public was to get a big payout. From what I’ve been told, he’s done almost no work for the past four months, middle-management or otherwise." “Despite his claims on Twitter that he did work, it turns out he told HR that he couldn’t work because he couldn’t type, but was, over the same period, typing up a storm on Twitter." “Yet there are many people on Twitter defending him. This hurts my faith in humanity.” Mr Thorleifsson, who has muscular dystrophy and uses a wheelchair, explained in a Twitter thread that prior to Musk’s takeover and the mass layoffs he had been a senior director and his job at that time did not require much typing – which he said he had difficulty with over long periods. “I’m not able to do manual work (which in this case means typing or using a mouse) for extended periods of time without my hands starting to cramp,” he said. “I can however write for an hour or two at a time. This wasn’t a problem in Twitter 1.0 since I was a senior director and my job was mostly to help teams move forward, give them strategic and tactical guidance. “But as I told HR (I’m assuming that’s the confidential health information you (Musk) are sharing) I can’t work as a hands on designer for the reasons outlined above.” He added: “I’m typing this on my phone btw (by the way). It’s easier because I only need to use one finger.” After the conversation went viral on the platform, with Musk’s conduct receiving widespread condemnation, Musk said he decided to contact Mr Thorleifsson directly via videocall “to figure out what’s real vs what I was told” and it was “a long story”. “Better to talk to people than communicate via tweet,” Musk added. In a follow-up tweet, the billionaire apologised to Mr Thorleifsson. “I would like to apologize to Halli for my misunderstanding of his situation,” Musk said. “It was based on things I was told that were untrue or, in some cases, true, but not meaningful. He is considering remaining at Twitter.” Earlier in the week Mr Thorleifsson – who was voted Iceland’s person of the year in 2022 by four media outlets – told the BBC he could not get an answer from Twitter’s human resources department on whether or not he had been sacked. “My theory is they made a mistake and are now looking for anything they can find to make this a ‘for cause’ firing to avoid having to fulfil their contractual obligations,” he said.
Maybe Ron DeSantis will slip on a banana peel later today and hurt his back. That will be a good day for you. Elon bought a company for 44 billion and took it private. I assume that he will do many things - on the plus and minus side- that are 100% Elon. Duh. I do not necessarily follow them at the level of detail that your psyche seems to require. Put on a trade, get a job or something.