{"id":1870067,"date":"2023-03-07T07:55:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T12:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-mocks-twitter-employee-openly-on-the-platform-with-movie-clip-from-office-space\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07T08:03:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T13:03:03","slug":"elon-musk-mocks-twitter-employee-openly-on-the-platform-with-movie-clip-from-office-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-mocks-twitter-employee-openly-on-the-platform-with-movie-clip-from-office-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Mocks Twitter Employee Openly On The Platform With Movie Clip From \u2018Office Space\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-mocks-twitter-employee-openly-on-the-platform-with-movie-clip-from-office-space%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1870067&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> Elon Musk, Twitter&#8217;s CEO, mocked one of his ex-workers Monday night using footage from the comedy film &#8220;Office Space,&#8221; This suggests that the employee didn&#8217;t add any real value to the company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dear @elonmusk \ud83d\udc4b 9 days ago the access to my work computer was cut, along with about 200 other Twitter employees,&#8221; Haraldur Thorleifsson sent a tweet at Musk &#8220;However your head of HR is not able to confirm if I am an employee or not. You&#8217;ve not answered my emails. Maybe if enough people retweet you&#8217;ll answer me here?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What work have you been doing?&#8221; Musk was asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would need to break confidentiality to answer this question here,&#8221; Musk was quick to respond. &#8220;If you have your lawyers share in writing that I can do that then I&#8217;d be happy to discuss that openly!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s approved, you go ahead,&#8221; Musk was quick to respond.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You can go forward after it&#8217;s been approved<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1632910953477210113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Thorleifsson responded to this by giving a long list of items he claimed he had accomplished.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Contributed to the efforts of saving approximately $500k on a SaaS contract. Assist in closing many other SaaS contracts.<\/li>\n<li>We prioritized design projects in the company so that we could achieve our goals with a smaller team.<\/li>\n<li>To help improve the design quality across the organization, use led design criteria<\/li>\n<li>All design positions were supervised by a hiring manager<\/li>\n<li>I worked on trying to get the company to shift its focus away from power users to more on younger users, as our users base is getting older.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thorleifsson continued, saying that the head for human resources &#8220;just miraculously&#8221; He replied and he confirmed. &#8220;that I no longer work at Twitter!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musk responded to Musk&#8217;s list of claims asking questions and suggesting some assertions were untrue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Which SaaS contract exactly?&#8221; Musk was asked. &#8220;Prioritization of what design projects?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Level up from what design to what?&#8221; Musk was asked. &#8220;Pics or it didn&#8217;t happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We haven&#8217;t hired design roles in 4 months,&#8221; He continued. &#8220;What changes did you make to help with the youths?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musk tweeted a video from the clip. &#8220;Office Space&#8221; Where an employee is asked about his actual job for the company, and then proceeds to have a complete meltdown.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Do you think you are a people-person?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kLD9NWHVIT\">https:\/\/t.co\/kLD9NWHVIT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1632916854657396736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; Musk stated. &#8220;Can&#8217;t say I have a lot of respect for that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But was he fired? No, you can&#8217;t be fired if you weren&#8217;t working in the first place!&#8221; He concluded.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Was he actually fired? It&#8217;s not possible to be fired from a job if you didn&#8217;t work in the first instance.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1633016157568651264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/elon-musk-mocks-twitter-employee-openly-on-the-platform-with-movie-clip-from-office-space\">Elon Musk Mocks Twitter Employee Openly On The Platform With Movie Clip From \u2018Office Space&#8217;<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk, Twitter&#8217;s CEO, mocked one of his ex-workers Monday night using footage from the comedy film &#8220;Office Space,&#8221; This suggests that the employee didn&#8217;t add any real value to the company. &#8220;Dear @elonmusk \ud83d\udc4b 9 days ago the access to my work computer was cut, along with about 200 other Twitter employees,&#8221; Haraldur Thorleifsson &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1890994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[11248,4249,4317,4276,4868,4250,5660,9688,3987,5088,4253],"class_list":["post-1870067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-clip","tag-elon","tag-employee","tag-mocks","tag-movie","tag-musk","tag-office","tag-openly","tag-platform","tag-space","tag-twitter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}