After Elon Musk ordered company-wide layoffs on Friday to get Twitter back in the black, a now-former employee of the firm claimed on social media that he was sacked “while napping.”
Software developer Jaseem Abid tweeted that he found out he had been fired when he couldn’t access Slack or his work email and noticed his laptop had been “remotely deleted” when he got up on Friday.
I woke up to a remotely erased laptop with no access to Slack, Gmail, or the office. During your sleep, you were fired without even a confirmation email? A new low is continuously being reached,’ he wrote.
Musk, who last month completed a $44 billion deal to become Twitter’s “Chief Twit,” claimed that the layoffs were required because the California-based business was losing more than $4 million every day. About half of the company’s 7,500 employees, according to a letter to workers, would lose their employment.
Elon Musk claims that Twitter experienced a “massive” drop in revenue as a result of pressure from activist groups on advertisers.
According to Musk’s Friday tweet, “Regarding Twitter’s decrease in force, regrettably there is no choice when the firm is losing over $4M/day.” Everyone who was let go received a 3 month severance package, which is 50% more than what was legally required.
Upon taking over Twitter, Musk also fired the company’s top officials, including those responsible for the choice to block former President Donald Trump. Employees of Twitter started posting about the impending layoffs online on Thursday night, claiming they had been locked out of their computers and had been informed of the decrease in staff.
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Before the layoff news was made on Thursday night, one ex-Twitter employee who is eight months pregnant claimed she lost access to her work laptop.
The last day that Twitter was truly Twitter was last Thursday at the SF office. 9-month-old and eight months pregnant. Just lost laptop access #LoveWhereYouWorked,” commented Twitter employee Rachel Bonn, who handled product marketing and digital brand.
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Workers who claimed the layoffs broke the federal legislation mandating 60 days’ notice for employees filed an class-action lawsuit against the corporation, according to Bloomberg.
Large businesses are required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to provide employees two months’ notice prior to any scheduled job losses.
