A fired Twitter engineer said he would have come up with 'way cleverer and more devastating jokes' about Elon Musk if he'd known he was getting canned
the firings seemed to target many people in an internal Slack channel called Social Watercooler, which has around 2,000 members and has long been used by staff to chatter and criticize the company.on November 15:"I've been fired for unspecified recent behavior in violation of unnamed company policy i.e. hanging out in the #social-watercooler."
He had also retweeted some posts that were critical of Musk's leadership, including one by since-fired Twitter engineerOn Friday, Fletcher posted a thread commemorating his time at the social-media giant. As well as discussing his job and praising his colleagues, he commented on the jokes he believed led to his layoffs.
"if I had known I would be fired for participating in the 1200 RPC discussion or for making fun of Elon in slack then I would have come up with way cleverer and more devastating jokes," Fletcher tweeted."The 1200 RPC discussion" refers to a tweet by Musk where he apologized for the app's"super slow" performance.
In addition to the mass layoffs and targeted firings, dozens of Twitter workers have also been opting to leave the company. Many of these came in the form of voluntary layoffs after Musk outlined his vision for"Twitter 2.0" and told workers they would need to be"extremely hardcore" and work"long hours at high intensity.
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