- Elon Musk accused a former worker of the usage of their incapacity as an “excuse” to do “no exact paintings.”
- The previous worker, Haraldur Thorleifsson, mentioned he has muscular dystrophy.
- Musk and Thorleifsson engaged in a heated alternate on Twitter on Monday.
Elon Musk has accused a laid-off Twitter worker of the usage of their incapacity as an “excuse” to do “no exact paintings.”
The accusation used to be aimed toward Haraldur Thorleifsson, a former Twitter director who engaged in a public spat with Musk on Monday.
Musk tweeted: “The truth is this man (who’s independently rich) did no exact paintings, claimed as his excuse that he had a incapacity that avoided him from typing, but used to be concurrently tweeting up a hurricane. Cannot say I’ve numerous admire for that.”
Musk added: “However used to be he fired? No, you’ll’t be fired if you were not running within the first position!”
A commentary on Thorleifsson’s private web site, posted earlier than his altercation with Musk, says: “I’ve genetic muscle atrophy, frequently known as muscle dystrophy. The only I’ve is named Dysferlinopathy. I exploit a wheelchair and I’m slowly however indisputably shedding power in my higher frame and palms. I do not adore it however that does not actually trade the rest.”
Twitter and Thorleifsson did not straight away reply to Insider’s requests for remark.
—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 7, 2023
Thorleifsson, who’s primarily based in Reykjavik, Iceland, joined Twitter as a full-time worker in 2021 after Twitter bought Ueno, an inventive company he based. He used to be named via a number of Icelandic media retailers because the country’s particular person of the 12 months for 2022.
Amid his spat with Musk on Monday, Thorleifsson posted an image of himself in a wheelchair. He later posted a Twitter thread describing the consequences of muscular dystrophy on his frame.
—Halli (@iamharaldur) March 7, 2023
His alternate with Musk kicked off when he tagged the Twitter proprietor in a tweet that mentioned: “9 days in the past the get right of entry to to my paintings laptop used to be reduce, together with about 200 different Twitter staff. Then again your head of HR isn’t in a position to verify if I’m an worker or no longer. You may have no longer spoke back my emails. Possibly if sufficient other people retweet you’ll be able to resolution me right here?”
Thorleifsson mentioned later he’d won an electronic mail from Twitter’s head of HR, who showed he used to be now not hired via the corporate.
Disabled staff at Twitter filed a class-action lawsuit in opposition to the corporate in November, announcing Musk’s new “extraordinarily hardcore” paintings tradition and orders to “paintings lengthy hours at top depth” pressured them to renounce.
