Haraldur Thorleifsson, also known online as Halli, is an Icelandic entrepreneur and founder of the creative agency Ueno, which has collaborated with brands such as Airbnb, Apple, ESPN, Dropbox, Facebook, PayPal and Walmart.
On Monday At the end of February, he suddenly lost access to his computer and employee systems. However, he has not received any information from the HR department about a possible dismissal from the company.
After an exchange of posts with Musk, which, as is the case with this billionaire, was not the most pleasant, Thorleifsson learned that he no longer works at . Elon Musk, however, did not stop at the humiliation of asking about his employment from a boss who is watched by 132 million people.
Elon Musk hits at the disability of a former employee
Halli does not hide the fact that he is a disabled person and uses a wheelchair. He actively works for other people with disabilities. As part of the Rampur project, it is participating in the construction of 1,500 wheelchair ramps in Iceland.
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However, he himself did not raise this argument in the discussion. He only recalled it in response to a post by another former Twitter employee who said that the exchange with Halli was the most entertaining talk about dismissal he had ever seen.
Musk replied that Thorleifsson (who is a wealthy person) was not doing his job and was using his disability as an excuse. This one was supposed to not allow him to write, even though he was simultaneously setting up an inba on Twitter, Musk wrote. – I can’t say I respect that.
In another entry, the billionaire wrote that he was told that Halli had hardly any work for the past four months.
Despite assurances on Twitter that he was working, it turned out that he told HR that he couldn’t work because he couldn’t write, and at the same time he was writing in inba on Twitter. Despite this, many people on Twitter still defend him. It hurts my faith in humanity
Musk wrote.
The fired employee explains
Halli in a series of entries decided to refer to the allegations of Elon Musk. He reported that he suffers from muscular dystrophy, which ended up in a wheelchair. Over time, his hands also began to weaken, despite earlier assurances from doctors that the disease should not affect them.
However, Thorleifsson believes that you have to deal with what fate has given us. So, 9 years ago, he founded the already mentioned Ueno company, which was quite successful. After seven years of work, however, he began to grow weary of it. “Covid lasted longer than the two weeks you mentioned,” Halli wrote to Musk.
After considering many options, he decided to sell the company to Twitter, below market price. But he chose to trust them. Twitter hired him, he worked there until Musk came along.
Thorleifsson recalled that Musk assured that he would not lay off 75 percent of his employees. crew, which he later did. He didn’t fire him himself on the first, or even on the second, third, or fourth throw. Halli writes that he himself does not know when he was fired, because there were so many successive rounds of layoffs, each of which was supposed to be the last one.
In Twitter 2.0, as Musk referred to his project, Halli was to regularly contact human resources and ask if his job description was correct. He wanted to make sure he was doing what he was supposed to. As he writes, the staff wrote back that they would look into it, but never returned with an answer.
He also explained that regarding Musk’s allegations that he was using his illness to avoid work, he told staff that he was unable to do manual labor for long periods of time because he was starting to get cramps. He added that he could write for an hour or two before that happened.
Thorleifsson writes that before Musk’s arrival, this was not a problem because he was a senior manager and his work was focused on pushing the team’s projects forward or setting strategic goals for them.
But as I told cadres (I’m assuming you shared health sensitive information) I can’t work as a programmer any more for the aforementioned reasons. By the way, I wrote this on my phone. It’s easier because I can only use one finger
Halli wrote.
In a recent post, he asked Musk to let him know if he was going to pay him the money he owed. “I think you can afford it?” he ended with a rhetorical question.
Source: Gazeta
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