The Twitter CEO responded to a third-party account confirming the employee's termination — instead of notifying the engineer directly. The engineer then posted photos of their locked work laptop, confirming their termination.
The engineer immediately began receiving offers for new positions from the likes of Square, whose POS system has become almost ubiquitous in small businesses in the US, among others.
The entire exchange has gone viral, popping up in every corner of the internet and sparking debates regarding Musk's handling of the exchange and the developer's nerve to publicly correct the CEO of the company they work for. Screenshots found their way onto Reddit's r/antiwork community, which was, predictably, less than favorable towards the Billionaire CEO.
Keep reading for this wild exchange, definitely one of the more prominent stories on the internet in the last 24 hours.
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Musk's initial tweet called out and apologized for the apparent poor performance of Twitter's platform, referencing the RPCs (remote procedure calls).
via Elon Musk
The public airing of the company's supposed development issues struck a nerve with this Twitter engineer, who was quick to correct Twitter's new CEO on his statement.
The response triggered this — very public — exchange:
Musk then responded to another user confirming that he had terminated the employee:
via u/ColossalCosci
The user responded to Musk's tweet, having found out about their termination via this reply to a third party. They then posted a photo showing they had been locked out of their work laptop.
Square and (reportedly) Reddit immediately reached out, offering the just-fired Dev positions on their teams.
Twitter users reacted in varied ways:
This set of screenshots (also shared above), features a since-deleted reply from another user, and was posted to Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit, where they went viral:
via u/ColossalCosci
Commenters in the Reddit thread were less-than-kind in their sentiments toward Musk's behavior.
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