I went to school with a guy who had muscular dystrophy.. he lived his life entirely from a wheelchair, he was unable to got the bathroom without assistance and the only way he could control the electric wheelchair was with a joystick because his arms and legs didn't move. Most people with MD do not get to live past 25 and my friend didn't even get to live to see his 21st birthday. if you cant quite picture it then think of Prof Stephen Hawking who had a similar level of mobility but not the same disease. Halli does not appear to be quite at that stage yet but he will probably end up there eventually and what elon did is completely disgraceful... it makes me never want to touch any of his products ever again. #FireElon
I've been lucky in the age part. I'm 41, and well past the life expectancy. With the wheelchair, I have a small joystick that I have to use to control mine as well. It's nothing fancy, but it gets me around. The MD has weakened me to the point that I usually go to bed around 7:00 in the evening. I simply don't have the strength to stay up. This life is hell. And to those of you who aren't disabled, cherish your ability to walk. You don't know how much you will miss it until it's no longer an option.
@@Jennifer-jt9cb Dear friend, thank you for sharing. I’m sorry that you have a difficult life (for lack of better word). I wish that Musk would publicly apologize for his stupidity. I fear he’s probably too stupid to do it. Please know that the majority of humans have compassion for individuals who suffer from an illness, physical or mental. I’ll pray for you. 🙏🏻
@@totalwater9431 Halli is probably far more successful than you'll ever be because he started a company that was bought out by twitter and then he went on to become a senior exec.. All your limbs work and you still got beaten by a guy in a wheelchair. too bad so sad for you...
Welcome to grifterville. If it's elon musk posting his playground memes like that annoying kid in the playground who did the whole "talk to the hand"/ fresh prince and tie dye t shirt thing, or trump on stage at his rallies mocking someone with cerebal palsy. It's all part of the same grift playbook and they know it, and we know it. You just know these people have a little whatsapp or slack chat group going that is just a car crash of gifs and memes and and and cringey dave chapelle and ricky gervais bad stand up routine planned out for when truth social and musk's twitter "merge" thing. It'll be their disneyworld moment of 2023, then the slack or the whatsapp chat thread will leak and we'll all be like "oh... erm... awkward". So... around june-ish? Maybe july 4 so we can have a bill paxman independence day meme on a stage with miss america beauty pageant 10 year olds supplied by matt gaetz.
@@totalwater9431 Your various comments have shown a complete ignorance of what MD is and can do to someone. Putting that aside however, your workers are entitled to know if they have been fired or not. If he had no way to contact Musk, this seems like his only option. If you think Musk behaved reasonably, then you are one of the most ridiculous people I have ever met.
@@totalwater9431 You were also fooled by Trump, weren't you? BTW, because attorneys who file class actions work 100% on contingency, it's rare for them to not be valid and certified. When a company has enough disabled employees to file a class action against a company of Twitter's size, you can bet those employees were targeted and fired because of their disabilities.
Celebrating the life and accomplishments of Judy Heumann, who passed away at 75 this weekend. It's because of her that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), exists in the first place... 💪❤😞🙏
Yes, engineers are useful. Can't say the same about the rest of the Twitter employees. Some of whom have been called to testify in Congress for their collusion with FBI.
Imagine having to ASK YOUR BOSS ON TWITTER hoping he blesses you with a response to EVEN JUST KNOW IF YOUR'E FIRED OR NOT. Wtf how can someone run a company this poorly.
@@noel7777noel What are you talking about and how would it be relevant to what this Twitter employee was forced to do? It sounds like he exhausted every other avenue to find out if he was still an employee, including e-mailing musk directly.
@@noel7777noel Sure, but Musk should be smarter than a dumb boomer on facebook considering he RUNS the company. Imagine being a worker for a company but your boss is that stupid
It's been truly amazing seeing how fast 'the Left' turned against their former hero. All it took was the bidding of an elitist media cabal. An entire decade of 'celebration' and about a month to pivot 180 degrees. A few "news" hit pieces. Sheep.
@@white_isnt_a_race2338 Yeah, Edison notoriously took credit for things he didn't actually do. He could be a real asshole sometimes as well from what I've read.
It's amazing that a large number of people still think musk is some type of engineer. Musk and his publicist did a bang-up job in molding his image -- his previous image and in attaining musk's desire to become a Hollywood-type celebrity. He and Amber Heard seem made for each other, but two narcissists don't do well together.
@@B_Bodziak wish the cunts In Hollywood would direct that narcissism in musks direction. There's no reason he should have ever been welcomed anywhere near the place. They should get some people with class in there.
There was a clause in his contract that stated that if he was terminated, he would be paid the full valuation of his company. Turns out that amount is $100 milliion.
Disrespecting the guy that literally helped build the thing and Elon acting like he's some demi-god who builds worlds in 7 days because, Daddy's money? That's really pathetic.
I had a similar medical condition. Not only did my boss visited me frequently in hospital. He said that the whole company misses me and continued to pay full salary for a year until disability insurance kicked in. That’s 10 yrs ago and I’m still here living a humble but happy life
@ladymondegreen Well if that day ever comes then by all means condemn it but until then you're just cheering for failure because........you don't like the guy. Tesla, largest EV manufacturer in the world. Proving cars can be mass produced and give zero emissions. Showing big auto that we can have sustainable vehicles whilst making a profit. You probably want that to fail too and why? "I don't like him". That's asinine. If you want perfection, follow Jesus. If you want to be in the world of reality, put bias aside and be rational.
@@somchai272 I never said anything about Tesla. You sound super defensive. All I said was that I hope Elon is held accountable for his EEOC violations which he's certainly committed. Sure, I also don't like him but that's beside the point. By all means, continue being the Elon fanboy you so clearly are.
Grew up spoiled, rotten, pampered, and entitled!! Feels like anything goes and doesn't have to be subjected to consequences while we mortals get thrown to the wolves if we step out of line!!
Who can blame her? I don’t. My feelings always told me that Elon Musk was not at all what he was cracked up to be. That’s as nicely as I can say it. I feel very vindicated now. He seems vile.
@@visibletoa11userz the mine inheritance thing is the really tough part, but once you get that will signed putting a pillow over dad’s face is actually pretty easy 😂jk because I think I watch too many “Lifetime” tv crime movies 😏😳😆
The guy they fired was Ireland's person of the year, and also had a clause in his contract that awards him over 100 million dollars if Twitter ever fired him.
But why is the CEO running on rumors and hearsay?! His excuse is worse than he is. You treat everyone with respect! Especially the higher up you are, you need to hold yourself to a higher standard.
He wasn't going on hearsay. He was told Hatti was disabled and that was enough to prompt musk into send cruel and degrading tweets to him. There's a bit more, actually 100 million dollars more, to the story than given in this video. Just search: Musk fired Hatti and get the whole picture but if you're one of musk's fanboys, you may be disappointed by musk's HUGE mistake in firing this man and Bigly disappointed that musk isn't as smart as he's led you to believe.
To all the people saying elon deserves respect for apologizing - all I can do is sigh. Apologies do not warrant respect, especially when they come from a place of selfishness....he's only apologizing because he's trying to avoid being sued. elon deserves absolutely no respect and deserves the absolute worst this world can give him.
TYT missed the real dinger here. The guy's contract? Because of the specific wording he had it draw up with...if he was ever fired before his contract expired, then all the money that was owed for his work get's lumped in all at once. He took his job selling a business that he created to Twitter and took a salery with a high payout instead of the real valuation of his company. He did this specifically to be in a higher tax bracket...so Iceland can collect more tax from him. He really supports his country. And his company was worth FAR more than what he sold it to Twitter for. So now that he's been let go...all that valuation comes due all at once. To the tune of a few hundred million or more... Yep.
While I understand your point and agree it was unacceptable how Elon handled this, it’s important to understand this wouldn’t be a HIPPA violation as that pertains specifically to medical professionals and medical facilities. There’s other legal definitions and legal arguments for such situations. I’m sure reading the definition and terms of HIPPA would clear that up if you’re curious. Thanks
An advantage to Tweeting is that you can research your responses before you make them instead of knee-jerk reactions based on limited knowledge. The CEO of Twitter doesn't understand that.
You need to update the story. Part of the acquisition of the company involved him earning $100 million through his wages. If he is terminated the remainder of that bill comes due. So the apology is an attempt to not pay that bill along with preventing all the lawsuits that every employment lawyer on twitter is salivating at.
Musk was impulsive in his initial response & subsequently offensive. The employee knew the proper procedures. I've been laid off before. If you stop working just bc you 'heard' something about lay offs or downsizing, but did not have that conversation with someone in authority or get a 'pink slip', you will very likely lose every benefits that you are entitled to after being correctly & officially notified that you are being laid off by your employer; unemployment & healthcare benefits, severance pay, etc. Years ago, the Dupont Company laid off over 3,000 people in one day. They had employees all over the 🌎 and I bet they did it the right way. Musk has money. To him that means power to do anything he wants, but there are laws regarding how you govern your business and employees that can't be ignored just bc you hv money. He's about to lose a bunch of that money. He's so ignorant or arrogant or both that he thinks the world runs according to how HE believes it should run.
@@happybutterfly7124 Any company that has enough eligible employees to file a class action suit against it for ADA/EEOC violations, most definitely is not a well-run company. Having an employee or two sue for discrimination can likely be attributed to a particular supervisor, but when there's enough to form a class action, the blame goes to the top of the food chain. HR having no clue if someone's employment was terminated or not, esp after 9 days, is another strong indicator that the person running the show is not up to the task. While I shouldn't be, I am a little shocked there are people in the comments supporting musk's actions in this incident and seem to have problem whatsoever with him publicly mocking an employee's disability and likely violating HIPPA laws, esp when the employee was very respectful in how he presented the situation.
I am a one-legged amputee my leg was surgically removed when I was eight and as someone who has faced disability discrimination his whole life I say this now anyone who makes discriminatory remarks against someone with a disability is a soulless monster. There should be no forgiveness for Elon Musk. If it were me I would tell him apology not accepted your going down a******.
Typical mega rich CEO, completely detached from reality, completely alien to what happens within their organisation, yet loves to micromanage every aspect, despite having no knowledge of how things work. Then there's these stories of totally disrespecting employees because the truth hurts his ego
Most people, including myself find it despicable to mock,mimic, and ridicule people who are impaired in one form or fashion! Understand this isn't his first rodeo! It's a wonder one of these people's loved ones didn't come after him and go upside his head! Besides, look who his biggest customer is: former president "douchebag"(and I'm being kind!!)!!
@@louiscretellaiii8606 Thank You! And again, it's a huge wonder someone, period who doesn't share his sentiments much less is one of his followers isn't going upside his head!! Don't mean to keep emphasizing that, but it's the truth, because I know, like former president "asshole",he has also ruffled some feathers in one form or another!!!!
Musk is just younger version of trump, his apparent mentor. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Musk is working on trying to drum up support to have the GOP members of Congress change the requirement that anyone running for POTUS must have US citizenship at birth.
@@chrissmith7513 No one is doing that because just like it is with Trump, all the crazies support musk. When it was announced in 2016 that Trump had won, I really thought there'd be an assassination attempt at some point during his presidency, but by the end of 2017, it was obvious that anyone with enough hatred or extreme mental issues to do something like that were all trump followers.
I quit Twitter in December. The reason I chose that direction had to do with how Elon Musk had been treating his employees in the wake of his purchase of Twitter. His 'hard-core work culture' in my opinion is nothing more than the creation of a sweat shop in the US. Seeing employees sleeping at Twitter offices exemplify this. So too is this particular event that has just transpired on Twitter. I thought to myself back in December that as a customer of the site, how can I look myself in the mirror and justify being a customer and condone the sweat-shopping of the Twitter work-force. At that point I quit. Might add also almost quit the internet and social media all together because I really felt disenchanted with the whole thing. Presently writing an essay about my own concerns about the internet and social media, which this event just adds as ammunition to fire. I am still very disenchanted but finding a way to get this sentiment out there is a better way of dealing than simply walking away. Medium is a very good form of therapy.
Would love to read your essay; I’m old & tech-trained (starting turn-of-the-Millennium) and feel that big tech figures and fans have duped countless people for decades and counting on their way to wealth and care little to nothing about the psyches & lives they’ve destroyed, are destroying, and will destroy in the future. I was extremely disillusioned in tech by 2004-2008 or so (especially once it emerged back then how greedy & fundamentally amoral so-called “quants” were indispensable to engineering the bubble that led to the crash). As far as the amorality that pervades so much of tech culture - at least Musk et al. are showing us how flagrantly stupid & narcissistic they are courtesy of Twitter whereas in the past it was easier to hide or minimize the bullshit of those in charge.
I only use Twitter if I'm reading an online article and there's a link to a tweet, often with a video, relating to the article and I'm interested in reading the comments. Every time I see or read another story about Musk's egregious behavior, I contemplate about permanently deleting my account, but don't, thinking how impactful can one account deletion be. However, your comments have helped me rethink my decisions, and I am definitely deleting my account. So, you've already started making an impact and I hope you look for other YT videos on this incident and post your comment on every one of them. You may even want to consider having your opening statement along the lines of: "Have you considered deleting your Twitter acct..." Thanks! And, best wishes with your essay!
@@x77punk77x as a REALLY old guy who remembers paying by the minute for Prodigy, Conpuserve, and some of those others, you never saw the kind of stupid stuff you see now that internet is broadband and relatively cheap, back then we crafted our posts with care because when you pay bucks per minute to post on the internet the last thing you wanted was to put out truly dumb stuff and waste money 😏😮😂
The guy is also owed 100 million because they had an existing contract and by firing him it triggered that. The guy chose to work for Twitter on a high salary rather than get paid fully for his company because he wanted to pay MORE in taxes. He put that clause in there (about being fired and paid) to protect himself.
@@donaldrayprine5153 that's definitely a good idea, a no brainer, in fact! twitter hasn't been the same ever since that trumptarded conservative clown bought the entire platform
You should do a new video about VRITKN300 ! I really like you’re mellow delivery and you seem like you’re very knowledgeable. I watch lots of influencers and you always seem very calculated and know exactly what you’re talking about and understand it. You’re better at explaining complicated things simply, than any other person on youtube keep it up brother!
employee: Hey, um, am I fired? I got locked out, but nobody's returning my calls/emails Musk: Haha, loser! lazy, fake disability, you get nothing! fired! fiiiiiiired! employee gets a pink slip. Musk's lawyer actually reads the guy's employment contract, blood pressure spikes. He takes Musk's picture out of his desk drawer and spends the next hour stabbing at its eyes. Musk: (robot voice) I. am. really. sorry. I. didn't. mean. it. please. come. back
Hehehe, oh man that imagery is awesome, also if you told me his employees secretly use a picture of musk as a Dart board I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised 😂
The one-finger typing tweet perfectly encapsulates how truly reprehensible this situation is. Also, doesn't the apology and asking him to return to work constitute an admission of guilt? I'm suspect the EU rules are even more protective than the US.
Apparently, several other news-related channels also covered this incident, and the biggest takeaway from them that wasn't included in this video is that Twitter still owes Hatti $100 million from selling his company to Twitter. The kicker is that in the sales contract, if Hatti's employment at Twitter is terminated, the remaining balance is due immediately. I suspect that when EM realized Hatti is THAT employee, musk was forced to backtrack and offered to rehire him. A hundred million dollars is likely to be a very impactful hit to any company losing half of its income from advertisers bailing, firing 70+% of its workforce to keep from going under, and the steep drop in its share price. I knew there had to a bigger reason than the possibility of a lawsuit for wrongful termination or HIPPA violation for musk to go straight from being cruel in multiple tweets to suddenly saying, "I apologize" and offer to rehire him. Obviously, musk was initially only informed that he had a disability and was fired. It was later that musk learned who the employee was. It sounds like whomever musk tasked with actually firing people and removing their login credentials, completely missed the "Do Not Fire" tag on Hatti's file and has a lot in common with Trump's "best people".
@@B_Bodziak Indeed. I learned of the $100 million kicker to this story from Vaush. Halli sold his company to Twitter but instead of getting a lump sum, he chose to take his payment in wages. So he could contribute to Icelandic employment taxes. Which helps to provide services for disabled folk like himself. This Halli just gets more and more admirable. Making musk look more and more like a shlub.
@@B_Bodziak Musk fanboy voice….” You guys are so wrong it’s pathetic, Musk wipes his butt with $100 bills so 100 million is nothing to him, he probably spends that much on toothpaste and dental floss” 😂jk
Many used to love him before because he was successful and was working on electric cars, Rockets, etc. After his ugly side came out I assume some still stayed fanboys
CEO's and big business owners rarely take responsibility for things that could get them legally in trouble. Elon using the "someone else told me wrong information" is a classic defense, used often by business owners and politicians. Until they have real penalties for the crap they pull, they will keep on doing it. With the way your politics works, nothing will change any time soon. I hope this guy gets a huge payout from Twitter.
I'm pretty sure he will, he is the second highest paying tax payer in Finland and he decided to be paid for his business that twitter bought by being hired by twitter for wages, so even ignoring the fact that he would win and take Elon to the cleaners with a lawsuit for discrimination, Twitter is still on the hook for millions of dollars because he hasn't earned the rest of the payment, thus terminating the contract he had with twitter. Then there's the whole lack of communication of whether he even had a job, and was terminated with no notice, I'm pretty sure that's illegal as well. He would likely cause Elon to go bankrupt, which is why this is the first time I've actually seen Elon actually attempt to apologize for his screw up.
even if elon was in the right (which he’s clearly NOT), it’s despicable and hopefully illegal to fire people without telling them- even after the man directed asked HR. what a worthless bastard
Is there any independent verification that Elon musk is actually a "genius" or as intelligent as he is being portrayed? I saw an interview from back in the day where he tried explaining something his company was doing, but he was having an extremely hard time explaining it and made little sense.
No but there are independent verification that Elon musk is _NOT_ a "genius" or as intelligent as he is being portrayed. Elom is his own independent verifier, just watch his videos and you can see for yourself.
Nope. Only Elon's own claims of being super smart, the gushing of paid presentation interviewers, and the simpering adoration of his fanboys. Reality is doing a lovely job of demonstrating the accuracy of this assessment. The "success" of Elon can be fully covered as "Rich kid failing up".
Hey ELON MUSK stop f*cking with Cobalt and other minerals for your stupid electric cars UNLESS YOU LIKE Democratic Republic of Congo blood on your hands you damn simp. And Halli (from twitter) says s.t.f.u you damb idiot.....
For the many people here suggesting that being on the autism spectrum is an explanation for his rudeness, I have to point out that there are plenty of people who are rude, obnoxious, or insulting who are not on the spectrum, and plenty that are on the spectrum but socially appropriate. Learning how to behave can be done by most people with average intelligence, let alone Musk's.
What I’m hearing is that “money you owe me” is the huge balloon payment owed him if he’s fired by Twitter that was negotiated in the sale of his company to Twitter. So the apology was a business decision with no true feeling at all. But hey, Elmo on cause I’ve got plenty of popcorn!😂😂😂
It's $100 million balloons! We knew there was a reason musk suddenly went from being cruel and degrading to "I apologize even though it's not my fault and you can come back to work." Even though it was a forced apology, it's the first and likely the only time we will ever see musk apologize.
Not only he mocks a disabled person; said person is a skilled, technically oriented creator and leader (unlike Musk) whom also was in a "do-not-fire" list due to the expensive release clause, AND a person of the year in his country. Then Elon has to both delete some of his messages and hard backtrack (while also being mercilessly crushed by that person's responses). True genius material.
Elon Musk backtracked so hard because Twitter still owes Halli 100M from the purchase of his company. Musk is already drowning from Twitter's purchase. Love Halli's response and the part about "pay what you owe me"!
The question mark after, "You can afford it" was a polite burn. I bet EM regrets having him fired. Whoever musk told to fire Halli either didn't know Twitter still owed him that huge amount OR they weren't bright enough to think they should tell Musk in case he wanted to rethink letting him go. I hope Halli's sale's agreement with Twitter allows him to force payment in full if he was fired from Twitter. The way things are heading, Twitter may end up in bankruptcy and it would be a shame if the debt to Halli is able to be included. If halli is independently wealthy, he worked because he enjoyed his job. Facebook could gain some public kudo points if they publicly offered Halli a similar position at FB/Meta.
@@B_Bodziak sigh, Musk is probably the only business executive who has no idea what a historical ‘golden parachute’ is and why that friggin thing is scary as all hell if you want to fire a successful executive who’s got that financial safety device set up by a hi-pay lawyer 😮😂 and in business a smart lawyer can be a hell of a good thing, unlike Rudy or Powell or that lawyer trump got from a shopping mall kiosk lately 😂
I’ve always joked about trump and now Musk that if fanboys worked for them rather than just worship them from a distance, they’d hate their guts in just a few months, no minimum wage worker would continue to love them for very long once they see what that’s like 😮😂
Making fun of a disabled person, and Elon Musk is making fun of him... What a heartless human being. That's a lawsuit right there against Elon Musk and Twitter. And that so-called apology wasn't sincere 😒.
There's a part to the story you missed (Vaush reported on this) and changed the end part of your story about him being paid on time. When he talks about Elon paying him what he owes is that when his guy sold the company he founded to Twitter, rather than taking compensation in the form of stocks, he took it in the form of wages that Twitter would pay him over time. If, as has happened, Twitter fires him, then Twitter per their contract owes him all the rest of the wages at the time he's dismissed. In this case we're looking at Twitter owing the guy about 100 million dollars. But what's more, the reason he didn't get word back from HR about his firing for a week and a half was because his employee file was marked with a special status that he was not to be fired, presumably for this exact reason. So when they had to try to answer the question of if he was fired or not, they really were in a tricky spot of not knowing how to answer. And of course, being the idiot he is, Elon made these decisions without any foresight in the consequences. He didn't even both to have someone look into the contracts these employees were under, and now is in a rare situation for him where he has to now deal with the consequences of his stupid decisions.
Thank you for posting such a clear and concise description of the entire story. I see bits and pieces in a few comments but you've managed to provide all of the relevant information not given in this video. And, it is definitely relevant!
As someone who has a spinal cord injury, a central cord syndrome in fact. Which is mainly in the upper extremities, my hands and arms. So while my hand and arms work, they are extremely weak and tire easily. Thus causing them to cramp and cause even more pain. I used to work as a server back in the day, and one of the side jobs that we all had todo was roll silver ware. Unfortunately for me that was one of the few jobs that actually caused my hands a lot of strain and pain. The simple movements needed dexterity and that was very hard for me. There were several employees that would get angry at me when i didn’t roll as much silverware as them. I would explain that due to my SCI from breaking my neck playing football, it was hard for me. Did they care? Nope! “If you can’t do the work, maybe you shouldn’t be a server.”. This was very hard for me because i worked really hard, was a great server but did have some limitations. My boss was very understanding, but i still hated that I had to defend myself. There are people with hidden disabilities, please keep this in mind.
I'm glad other disabled people are speaking out. I'm apparently "too young to be disabled" if I give the people who harass me in public for my disabilities any sort of credence. I some how ended up with a total of 8 bulging discs in my spine, with absolutely no idea how I got them. One of them herniated late last year, causing me to need emergency spinal surgery because I ended up with a rare disorder called Cauda Equine Syndrome. It wasn't to relieve my chronic pain, it was so my nerves wouldn't die and cause me to be permanently paralyzed from the waist down. I also have a messed up immune system, I have had shingles three times and have an uncommon form of Lupus known as NPSLE, which for me meant seizures whenever my lupus wasn't in remission. I also have both of my meniscus torn in my right knee for the last decade, and have had ADHD, a hearing disorder and a speech impediment since birth. I don't want sympathy, I want the world fixed so having something happened that was completely out of your control doesn't mean you, your loved ones and your future descendants aren't destined to live in some form of poverty. Where I could get the resources to work at a job and keep being employed, Musk is proving what many disabled people have been saying all along, discrimination against disabled employees is alive and well, you just have a higher burden of proof than even a criminal court has. It's absolutely no surprised that every year too many people die waiting to hear back on whether or not they get disability, or that you could be profoundly disabled but it never really mattered, because you were denied before they even requested medical records. Or that disabled people give up on being employed due to the hostile working conditions while knowing they will be completely kicked off disability if they do work, so if they do lose their job they may die before they get their benefits reinstated.
That guy should sue Elon for Twitter itself. It's clear Musk can't run Twitter as a business competently, but I'm sure this guy could run it way better.
I'm so happy that I deleted my Twitter. I'm also happy that the person that harassed me on Twitter was ordered to remove every tweet about me and even videos taken from my own social media without my consent.
It's heartbreaking that people can be treated this way. To be fired this way, to be forced to discuss private information on a public platform.. This is why we need to add psychologically and emotionally sound to the standard of leadership and governance, along with a standard in place to address relational challenges. There is no raise, promotion or salary that can compensate for toxicity in the workplace. The human and medical fallout is insurmountable. We can do better than this.😥
Not only did Twitter buy his company, Thorleifsson took the $100 million as a salary from Twitter instead of an up front payment. So now Twitter will have to pay out the remaining amount.
We’ve all met Musk’s parents through the media and anyone can see that though he comes from wealth no one in the family has any manners and it doesn’t even appear that they possess normal emotions.
I went to school with a guy who had muscular dystrophy.. he lived his life entirely from a wheelchair, he was unable to got the bathroom without assistance and the only way he could control the electric wheelchair was with a joystick because his arms and legs didn't move. Most people with MD do not get to live past 25 and my friend didn't even get to live to see his 21st birthday.
if you cant quite picture it then think of Prof Stephen Hawking who had a similar level of mobility but not the same disease.
Halli does not appear to be quite at that stage yet but he will probably end up there eventually and what elon did is completely disgraceful... it makes me never want to touch any of his products ever again.
#FireElon
I've been lucky in the age part. I'm 41, and well past the life expectancy. With the wheelchair, I have a small joystick that I have to use to control mine as well. It's nothing fancy, but it gets me around. The MD has weakened me to the point that I usually go to bed around 7:00 in the evening. I simply don't have the strength to stay up.
This life is hell.
And to those of you who aren't disabled, cherish your ability to walk. You don't know how much you will miss it until it's no longer an option.
@@Jennifer-jt9cb Dear friend, thank you for sharing. I’m sorry that you have a difficult life (for lack of better word). I wish that Musk would publicly apologize for his stupidity. I fear he’s probably too stupid to do it. Please know that the majority of humans have compassion for individuals who suffer from an illness, physical or mental. I’ll pray for you. 🙏🏻
@@totalwater9431 Halli is probably far more successful than you'll ever be because he started a company that was bought out by twitter and then he went on to become a senior exec..
All your limbs work and you still got beaten by a guy in a wheelchair.
too bad so sad for you...
@@totalwater9431 working at a troll farm is the very definition of being worthless at your job.
Anybody that mocks or makes fun if a disabled person, there's not much to them.
He can't make it affordable.
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Good thing he didn’t do that then
Or to his best people that don’t find anything wrong with it,
Welcome to grifterville. If it's elon musk posting his playground memes like that annoying kid in the playground who did the whole "talk to the hand"/ fresh prince and tie dye t shirt thing, or trump on stage at his rallies mocking someone with cerebal palsy. It's all part of the same grift playbook and they know it, and we know it. You just know these people have a little whatsapp or slack chat group going that is just a car crash of gifs and memes and and and cringey dave chapelle and ricky gervais bad stand up routine planned out for when truth social and musk's twitter "merge" thing. It'll be their disneyworld moment of 2023, then the slack or the whatsapp chat thread will leak and we'll all be like "oh... erm... awkward".
So... around june-ish? Maybe july 4 so we can have a bill paxman independence day meme on a stage with miss america beauty pageant 10 year olds supplied by matt gaetz.
Billionaires seem to enjoy mocking people who work full-time despite overwhelming challenges.
@@totalwater9431 Your various comments have shown a complete ignorance of what MD is and can do to someone. Putting that aside however, your workers are entitled to know if they have been fired or not. If he had no way to contact Musk, this seems like his only option. If you think Musk behaved reasonably, then you are one of the most ridiculous people I have ever met.
@@totalwater9431 You were also fooled by Trump, weren't you?
BTW, because attorneys who file class actions work 100% on contingency, it's rare for them to not be valid and certified. When a company has enough disabled employees to file a class action against a company of Twitter's size, you can bet those employees were targeted and fired because of their disabilities.
Celebrating the life and accomplishments of Judy Heumann, who passed away at 75 this weekend. It's because of her that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), exists in the first place... 💪❤😞🙏
The documentary on the passing of the ADA is so powerful. The video of that dude having to crawl up the steps of the courts is so powerful.
If you’re still on Twitter, you’re part of the problem.
LOL I don't know anyone who pays attention to twitter anymore. Twitter and FB are going the way of MySpace, and good riddance.
The only reason Twitter is still a functional site is because the engineers did a really good job.
Yes, engineers are useful. Can't say the same about the rest of the Twitter employees. Some of whom have been called to testify in Congress for their collusion with FBI.
Twitter should stay up, so all the weirdos can stay in that app
I mean, it's a site where you can post 140 character messages. It's not that technically impressive.
@@trancendental5373 you know little
@@trancendental5373 meh, 140 characters, I couldn’t even make a decent dumb joke with that limit, maybe just a comedic Japanese haiku 😂jk
My favorite response from Halli, "That I independently made my money, as opposed to say, inherited an emerald mine."
Was that Halli or Cenk?
Didn’t he say he was going to step down? He ran a poll on his account and the people voted for him to leave.
Narcissism. Bad combo with social media addiction and owning a social media company.
I guess they didn't send him a letter.
He's a liar.
We do u care?
“That poll didn’t count. It was clearly bot farmed “
- Elon Musk, king of bots
A guy who has massively altered his own face and hairline and stammers has the hubris to mock anyone?
I hope he gets a big fat suit filed against him!
He will have a big fat heart attack, then blame everyone else, despite his big fat ass being the cause.
Imagine having to ASK YOUR BOSS ON TWITTER hoping he blesses you with a response to EVEN JUST KNOW IF YOUR'E FIRED OR NOT. Wtf how can someone run a company this poorly.
Remember when FB first came out and how people where so stupid for having PRIVATE decisions on social media.
@@noel7777noel What are you talking about and how would it be relevant to what this Twitter employee was forced to do? It sounds like he exhausted every other avenue to find out if he was still an employee, including e-mailing musk directly.
@@noel7777noel Sure, but Musk should be smarter than a dumb boomer on facebook considering he RUNS the company. Imagine being a worker for a company but your boss is that stupid
@@B_Bodziak I was talking about how Musk ingauged in a private discussion on SM.
@@noel7777noel Thank you very much for responding. I must have missed that piece of news, but I'll be sure to search for it and check it out!
Just further proof Musk is a terrible human being. He never disappoints.
A terrible human with fat pockets... Money runs the world, people only like him because he is drowning in wealth. Hmph.
It's been truly amazing seeing how fast 'the Left' turned against their former hero. All it took was the bidding of an elitist media cabal. An entire decade of 'celebration' and about a month to pivot 180 degrees. A few "news" hit pieces. Sheep.
Reverse the language so he can become better like i heard he's a good human
👊🔥✌
@@rohankurian5641 Rohan we will find out how terrible he or fauci is at trial lol next to China lol
He's appologizing because he's gonna lose a lot of money
Not much of an apology.
This is what happens when your boss is a nepo baby pretending all the Tesla ideas were his. He bought people out.
He is almost perfectly exactly this eras edison
Precisely
@@white_isnt_a_race2338 Yeah, Edison notoriously took credit for things he didn't actually do. He could be a real asshole sometimes as well from what I've read.
It's amazing that a large number of people still think musk is some type of engineer. Musk and his publicist did a bang-up job in molding his image -- his previous image and in attaining musk's desire to become a Hollywood-type celebrity.
He and Amber Heard seem made for each other, but two narcissists don't do well together.
@@B_Bodziak wish the cunts In Hollywood would direct that narcissism in musks direction. There's no reason he should have ever been welcomed anywhere near the place. They should get some people with class in there.
There was a clause in his contract that stated that if he was terminated, he would be paid the full valuation of his company. Turns out that amount is $100 milliion.
Is that true
Disrespecting the guy that literally helped build the thing and Elon acting like he's some demi-god who builds worlds in 7 days because, Daddy's money? That's really pathetic.
That's not an apology, that's musk trying to BLAME HR of his own company or someone else, ANYONE else.
So basically Elon musk is trump with money 💰. But both are equally horrible.
One guy has muscular dystrophy. The other guy has Musk dystrophy.
🤣
Hmmm, what does Musk Dystrophy do, make your brain shrink down until it looks like a raisin?! 😳😮😂
I heard this guy was on a do not fire list or he gets a payout of $100 million now . Hope justice is served.
What a train wreck Musk is.
Musk is a 1/4 bit engineer and a 2 bit businessman.
I had a similar medical condition. Not only did my boss visited me frequently in hospital. He said that the whole company misses me and continued to pay full salary for a year until disability insurance kicked in. That’s 10 yrs ago and I’m still here living a humble but happy life
Your boss is a beautiful human being. Elon and people like him choose to be ugly.
I hope Twitter FAILS miserably.
Why? Millions enjoy Twitter. Millions earn an income via Twitter. But u don't like the owner? That's asinine.
@@somchai272it’s more than not liking the owner. I’m pretty sure Elon Musk has committed multiple EEOC violations. I hope he’s held accountable.
@ladymondegreen Well if that day ever comes then by all means condemn it but until then you're just cheering for failure because........you don't like the guy. Tesla, largest EV manufacturer in the world. Proving cars can be mass produced and give zero emissions. Showing big auto that we can have sustainable vehicles whilst making a profit. You probably want that to fail too and why? "I don't like him". That's asinine. If you want perfection, follow Jesus. If you want to be in the world of reality, put bias aside and be rational.
@@somchai272 I never said anything about Tesla. You sound super defensive. All I said was that I hope Elon is held accountable for his EEOC violations which he's certainly committed. Sure, I also don't like him but that's beside the point. By all means, continue being the Elon fanboy you so clearly are.
@@somchai272 Don't worry. Someone else will scoop it up at a fire sale and you'll still get to post your tweets.
I forget who said it, but it’s one of my favorite quotes…..”Some people think they’re worth a lot just because they have a lot.”.
How true!!!!
"How the hell did he get here?"
Apartheid nepotism.
He's just another rich boy who sees the world as his personal toy.
Just sinful, but what do you expect from someone who actually never created one damn thing. Child is right.
What a terrible person.
Grew up spoiled, rotten, pampered, and entitled!! Feels like anything goes and doesn't have to be subjected to consequences while we mortals get thrown to the wolves if we step out of line!!
A wealthy jerk is still a jerk.
"What work have you been doing?" Is precisely the question I would pose to executives of his ilk.
It appears musk also only hires the "best people". Sound familiar?
Elon's daughter changed her name and wants nothing to do with him
Who can blame her? I don’t. My feelings always told me that Elon Musk was not at all what he was cracked up to be. That’s as nicely as I can say it. I feel very vindicated now. He seems vile.
@@ritacampbell3833 I think he's experiencing a mental meltdown
On top of the discriminating, the sharing confidential medical information from his work files=HUGE LAW SUIT!
Just a few short years ago I wanted to be just like Elon Musk. But now I'm having second thoughts.
Did you inherit a jewel mine too?
@@visibletoa11userz the mine inheritance thing is the really tough part, but once you get that will signed putting a pillow over dad’s face is actually pretty easy 😂jk because I think I watch too many “Lifetime” tv crime movies 😏😳😆
HIPAA violation. That is going to be a helluva lawsuit!
The guy they fired was Ireland's person of the year, and also had a clause in his contract that awards him over 100 million dollars if Twitter ever fired him.
Wow, I knew he was incompetent but man this takes it 100 times more. WOW!
No character, no integrity, no morals...trump or Musk or both??
But why is the CEO running on rumors and hearsay?! His excuse is worse than he is. You treat everyone with respect! Especially the higher up you are, you need to hold yourself to a higher standard.
He wasn't going on hearsay. He was told Hatti was disabled and that was enough to prompt musk into send cruel and degrading tweets to him. There's a bit more, actually 100 million dollars more, to the story than given in this video. Just search: Musk fired Hatti and get the whole picture but if you're one of musk's fanboys, you may be disappointed by musk's HUGE mistake in firing this man and Bigly disappointed that musk isn't as smart as he's led you to believe.
@@B_Bodziak so he heard it from someone else and went and said it….hear….say? No fan of anyone that that has the power to help, but doesn’t.
To all the people saying elon deserves respect for apologizing - all I can do is sigh. Apologies do not warrant respect, especially when they come from a place of selfishness....he's only apologizing because he's trying to avoid being sued. elon deserves absolutely no respect and deserves the absolute worst this world can give him.
best way to predict future behaviour is with past behaviour, and Elon has been an a**hole his entire life
Even the apologies were probably devised by the legal team
TYT missed the real dinger here. The guy's contract? Because of the specific wording he had it draw up with...if he was ever fired before his contract expired, then all the money that was owed for his work get's lumped in all at once. He took his job selling a business that he created to Twitter and took a salery with a high payout instead of the real valuation of his company. He did this specifically to be in a higher tax bracket...so Iceland can collect more tax from him. He really supports his country. And his company was worth FAR more than what he sold it to Twitter for. So now that he's been let go...all that valuation comes due all at once. To the tune of a few hundred million or more... Yep.
Talk about HIPPA violation!! Being disabled myself I can see the frustration. I just deleted my Twitter account!
While I understand your point and agree it was unacceptable how Elon handled this, it’s important to understand this wouldn’t be a HIPPA violation as that pertains specifically to medical professionals and medical facilities.
There’s other legal definitions and legal arguments for such situations. I’m sure reading the definition and terms of HIPPA would clear that up if you’re curious. Thanks
"'HR department?' Oh, we fired them last week."
LOL!
they were the last to go and it was a heck of a thing to have to fire yourself because you work at HR 😂
He's not even paying rent. Imagine you and I missed 1 month of rent, we'd be kicked to the curb
An advantage to Tweeting is that you can research your responses before you make them instead of knee-jerk reactions based on limited knowledge. The CEO of Twitter doesn't understand that.
Sorry it doesn't matter who the employee is or even if he was a terrible employee, Elon's behavior is despicable!
He never really apologized, he said he wanted to but never did it 🤷♀️. Musky is a megaclown
many billions of regular clowns all wrapped up in one single mega-assclown type person....lol
You need to update the story. Part of the acquisition of the company involved him earning $100 million through his wages. If he is terminated the remainder of that bill comes due. So the apology is an attempt to not pay that bill along with preventing all the lawsuits that every employment lawyer on twitter is salivating at.
Musk was impulsive in his initial response & subsequently offensive. The employee knew the proper procedures. I've been laid off before. If you stop working just bc you 'heard' something about lay offs or downsizing, but did not have that conversation with someone in authority or get a 'pink slip', you will very likely lose every benefits that you are entitled to after being correctly & officially notified that you are being laid off by your employer; unemployment & healthcare benefits, severance pay, etc. Years ago, the Dupont Company laid off over 3,000 people in one day. They had employees all over the 🌎 and I bet they did it the right way. Musk has money. To him that means power to do anything he wants, but there are laws regarding how you govern your business and employees that can't be ignored just bc you hv money. He's about to lose a bunch of that money. He's so ignorant or arrogant or both that he thinks the world runs according to how HE believes it should run.
@@happybutterfly7124 Any company that has enough eligible employees to file a class action suit against it for ADA/EEOC violations, most definitely is not a well-run company. Having an employee or two sue for discrimination can likely be attributed to a particular supervisor, but when there's enough to form a class action, the blame goes to the top of the food chain. HR having no clue if someone's employment was terminated or not, esp after 9 days, is another strong indicator that the person running the show is not up to the task.
While I shouldn't be, I am a little shocked there are people in the comments supporting musk's actions in this incident and seem to have problem whatsoever with him publicly mocking an employee's disability and likely violating HIPPA laws, esp when the employee was very respectful in how he presented the situation.
He berated a Tesla employee that/for, lost/losing a limb, on the production floor. Plus other 19th century style employee management practices.
Musk is a jerk and people consider him a great person. He lacks empathy , which says a lot about his character.
I am a one-legged amputee my leg was surgically removed when I was eight and as someone who has faced disability discrimination his whole life I say this now anyone who makes discriminatory remarks against someone with a disability is a soulless monster. There should be no forgiveness for Elon Musk. If it were me I would tell him apology not accepted your going down a******.
How does anyone take him seriously anymore- or EVER, for that matter?
Typical mega rich CEO, completely detached from reality, completely alien to what happens within their organisation, yet loves to micromanage every aspect, despite having no knowledge of how things work. Then there's these stories of totally disrespecting employees because the truth hurts his ego
I'm trying to add more likes to your post but it just keeps toggling
He's a great guy he's wonderful he won't hurt nobody.
Have u checked ur own ego in the mirror
@@ashleydraper3993 thought he just hurt the feelings of a disabled person
Most people, including myself find it despicable to mock,mimic, and ridicule people who are impaired in one form or fashion! Understand this isn't his first rodeo! It's a wonder one of these people's loved ones didn't come after him and go upside his head! Besides, look who his biggest customer is: former president "douchebag"(and I'm being kind!!)!!
Preach, brother!
@@louiscretellaiii8606 Thank You! And again, it's a huge wonder someone, period who doesn't share his sentiments much less is one of his followers isn't going upside his head!! Don't mean to keep emphasizing that, but it's the truth, because I know, like former president "asshole",he has also ruffled some feathers in one form or another!!!!
Musk is just younger version of trump, his apparent mentor. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Musk is working on trying to drum up support to have the GOP members of Congress change the requirement that anyone running for POTUS must have US citizenship at birth.
@@chrissmith7513 No one is doing that because just like it is with Trump, all the crazies support musk. When it was announced in 2016 that Trump had won, I really thought there'd be an assassination attempt at some point during his presidency, but by the end of 2017, it was obvious that anyone with enough hatred or extreme mental issues to do something like that were all trump followers.
@@B_Bodziak Yep
I quit Twitter in December. The reason I chose that direction had to do with how Elon Musk had been treating his employees in the wake of his purchase of Twitter. His 'hard-core work culture' in my opinion is nothing more than the creation of a sweat shop in the US. Seeing employees sleeping at Twitter offices exemplify this. So too is this particular event that has just transpired on Twitter. I thought to myself back in December that as a customer of the site, how can I look myself in the mirror and justify being a customer and condone the sweat-shopping of the Twitter work-force. At that point I quit. Might add also almost quit the internet and social media all together because I really felt disenchanted with the whole thing. Presently writing an essay about my own concerns about the internet and social media, which this event just adds as ammunition to fire. I am still very disenchanted but finding a way to get this sentiment out there is a better way of dealing than simply walking away. Medium is a very good form of therapy.
Would love to read your essay; I’m old & tech-trained (starting turn-of-the-Millennium) and feel that big tech figures and fans have duped countless people for decades and counting on their way to wealth and care little to nothing about the psyches & lives they’ve destroyed, are destroying, and will destroy in the future. I was extremely disillusioned in tech by 2004-2008 or so (especially once it emerged back then how greedy & fundamentally amoral so-called “quants” were indispensable to engineering the bubble that led to the crash). As far as the amorality that pervades so much of tech culture - at least Musk et al. are showing us how flagrantly stupid & narcissistic they are courtesy of Twitter whereas in the past it was easier to hide or minimize the bullshit of those in charge.
I only use Twitter if I'm reading an online article and there's a link to a tweet, often with a video, relating to the article and I'm interested in reading the comments. Every time I see or read another story about Musk's egregious behavior, I contemplate about permanently deleting my account, but don't, thinking how impactful can one account deletion be. However, your comments have helped me rethink my decisions, and I am definitely deleting my account. So, you've already started making an impact and I hope you look for other YT videos on this incident and post your comment on every one of them. You may even want to consider having your opening statement along the lines of: "Have you considered deleting your Twitter acct..."
Thanks! And, best wishes with your essay!
@@x77punk77x as a REALLY old guy who remembers paying by the minute for Prodigy, Conpuserve, and some of those others, you never saw the kind of stupid stuff you see now that internet is broadband and relatively cheap, back then we crafted our posts with care because when you pay bucks per minute to post on the internet the last thing you wanted was to put out truly dumb stuff and waste money 😏😮😂
Elon is modern version of Thomas Edison. Takes all the credit but does only 5% of the work involved.
Edison was smarter and faster.
That's the law of nature.
Weak men with great ideas are forgotten.
The guy is also owed 100 million because they had an existing contract and by firing him it triggered that.
The guy chose to work for Twitter on a high salary rather than get paid fully for his company because he wanted to pay MORE in taxes.
He put that clause in there (about being fired and paid) to protect himself.
Be careful, I just got threatened to be removed for speaking out against Musk and Twitter
Sue Twitter, and Musk
@@donaldrayprine5153 that's definitely a good idea, a no brainer, in fact! twitter hasn't been the same ever since that trumptarded conservative clown bought the entire platform
Musk the man-baby.
Sue him! A despicable human. Boycott all Musk businesses.
Didn't this guy sell his company to Twitter, and if he gets let go he is owed the full balance of the purchase price?
You should do a new video about VRITKN300 ! I really like you’re mellow delivery and you seem like you’re very knowledgeable. I watch lots of influencers and you always seem very calculated and know exactly what you’re talking about and understand it. You’re better at explaining complicated things simply, than any other person on youtube keep it up brother!
employee: Hey, um, am I fired? I got locked out, but nobody's returning my calls/emails
Musk: Haha, loser! lazy, fake disability, you get nothing! fired! fiiiiiiired!
employee gets a pink slip.
Musk's lawyer actually reads the guy's employment contract, blood pressure spikes. He takes Musk's picture out of his desk drawer and spends the next hour stabbing at its eyes.
Musk: (robot voice) I. am. really. sorry. I. didn't. mean. it. please. come. back
Hehehe, oh man that imagery is awesome, also if you told me his employees secretly use a picture of musk as a Dart board I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised 😂
The one-finger typing tweet perfectly encapsulates how truly reprehensible this situation is. Also, doesn't the apology and asking him to return to work constitute an admission of guilt? I'm suspect the EU rules are even more protective than the US.
Apparently, several other news-related channels also covered this incident, and the biggest takeaway from them that wasn't included in this video is that Twitter still owes Hatti $100 million from selling his company to Twitter. The kicker is that in the sales contract, if Hatti's employment at Twitter is terminated, the remaining balance is due immediately. I suspect that when EM realized Hatti is THAT employee, musk was forced to backtrack and offered to rehire him. A hundred million dollars is likely to be a very impactful hit to any company losing half of its income from advertisers bailing, firing 70+% of its workforce to keep from going under, and the steep drop in its share price. I knew there had to a bigger reason than the possibility of a lawsuit for wrongful termination or HIPPA violation for musk to go straight from being cruel in multiple tweets to suddenly saying, "I apologize" and offer to rehire him. Obviously, musk was initially only informed that he had a disability and was fired. It was later that musk learned who the employee was. It sounds like whomever musk tasked with actually firing people and removing their login credentials, completely missed the "Do Not Fire" tag on Hatti's file and has a lot in common with Trump's "best people".
@@B_Bodziak Indeed. I learned of the $100 million kicker to this story from Vaush. Halli sold his company to Twitter but instead of getting a lump sum, he chose to take his payment in wages. So he could contribute to Icelandic employment taxes. Which helps to provide services for disabled folk like himself. This Halli just gets more and more admirable. Making musk look more and more like a shlub.
@@B_Bodziak Musk fanboy voice….” You guys are so wrong it’s pathetic, Musk wipes his butt with $100 bills so 100 million is nothing to him, he probably spends that much on toothpaste and dental floss” 😂jk
Never had Twitter. Grew up without it and live happily. People complain a lot about twitter, but continue to use it.
I never realized what a weak person and a small man Elon Musk was until he purchased Twitter.
Elon Musk is begging to get sued. I'd love that case!
I don't understand why he has a cult
one word... Money.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of shitty people in this world who love to stan for garbage people.
@@Losrr393 And years of taking credit for things people he paid designed: Rockets, EVs... the media calling him a tech genius didn't help.
Many used to love him before because he was successful and was working on electric cars, Rockets, etc. After his ugly side came out I assume some still stayed fanboys
he got here on the backs of indigenous African peoples. I thought everyone knew that
This is a horrible horrible horrible way to treat people.
This just convince me that Elon Musk is nothing more but a baby stuck in adult body
You must have a miserable life.
CEO's and big business owners rarely take responsibility for things that could get them legally in trouble. Elon using the "someone else told me wrong information" is a classic defense, used often by business owners and politicians. Until they have real penalties for the crap they pull, they will keep on doing it. With the way your politics works, nothing will change any time soon.
I hope this guy gets a huge payout from Twitter.
I'm pretty sure he will, he is the second highest paying tax payer in Finland and he decided to be paid for his business that twitter bought by being hired by twitter for wages, so even ignoring the fact that he would win and take Elon to the cleaners with a lawsuit for discrimination, Twitter is still on the hook for millions of dollars because he hasn't earned the rest of the payment, thus terminating the contract he had with twitter. Then there's the whole lack of communication of whether he even had a job, and was terminated with no notice, I'm pretty sure that's illegal as well. He would likely cause Elon to go bankrupt, which is why this is the first time I've actually seen Elon actually attempt to apologize for his screw up.
Musk's next apology: I was given false information about the employees. I was told that these were black miners.
Just when you think this S. O B. couldn't get any lower . He says hold my beer and watch this
…..and what’s funny is he didn’t say anything about the guys disability. You literally just read the headline and commented like a dumb dumb.
Mask is still young. He can and will get worse with age. As he becomes more miserable.
The former employee should be OWNING Twitter after he sues the shit out of him!! Thank God I DON'T have a "Twitter" account!!
@Charles defamation of character
even if elon was in the right (which he’s clearly NOT), it’s despicable and hopefully illegal to fire people without telling them- even after the man directed asked HR. what a worthless bastard
Twitters collapse is just a countdown at this point. Jesus Christ...
This man made Musk look like a fool. Well done sir!
I hope Thor sues Twitter because there is no excuse for publicly disclosing HIPAA information!
Did he really break like every hipaa law? Wow this is a nice size lawsuit.
How did elon musk get where he is?
Other people's money.
Is there any independent verification that Elon musk is actually a "genius" or as intelligent as he is being portrayed? I saw an interview from back in the day where he tried explaining something his company was doing, but he was having an extremely hard time explaining it and made little sense.
No but there are independent verification that Elon musk is _NOT_ a "genius" or as intelligent as he is being portrayed.
Elom is his own independent verifier, just watch his videos and you can see for yourself.
Nope. Only Elon's own claims of being super smart, the gushing of paid presentation interviewers, and the simpering adoration of his fanboys.
Reality is doing a lovely job of demonstrating the accuracy of this assessment.
The "success" of Elon can be fully covered as "Rich kid failing up".
Elon tried to spell his kid's name with a 7.
"Me fail english? That's unpossible.
@@JohnBailey39 He's exactly like Trump in so many ways.
@@Azmania3000 Elon Musk, the only guy who’d like his new born kid to have an infinity symbol in his name 😂jk
Musk seems to be mimicking Trump's behavior. It figures Musk would look at Trump as a mentor.
Why people worship people like Musk and trump I'll never understand.
Hey ELON MUSK stop f*cking with Cobalt and other minerals for your stupid electric cars UNLESS YOU LIKE Democratic Republic of Congo blood on your hands you damn simp. And Halli (from twitter) says s.t.f.u you damb idiot.....
For the many people here suggesting that being on the autism spectrum is an explanation for his rudeness, I have to point out that there are plenty of people who are rude, obnoxious, or insulting who are not on the spectrum, and plenty that are on the spectrum but socially appropriate. Learning how to behave can be done by most people with average intelligence, let alone Musk's.
What I’m hearing is that “money you owe me” is the huge balloon payment owed him if he’s fired by Twitter that was negotiated in the sale of his company to Twitter. So the apology was a business decision with no true feeling at all. But hey, Elmo on cause I’ve got plenty of popcorn!😂😂😂
It's $100 million balloons! We knew there was a reason musk suddenly went from being cruel and degrading to "I apologize even though it's not my fault and you can come back to work." Even though it was a forced apology, it's the first and likely the only time we will ever see musk apologize.
He doesn't talk about Mars these days. Was that a scam, too? 😂
Not only he mocks a disabled person; said person is a skilled, technically oriented creator and leader (unlike Musk) whom also was in a "do-not-fire" list due to the expensive release clause, AND a person of the year in his country. Then Elon has to both delete some of his messages and hard backtrack (while also being mercilessly crushed by that person's responses). True genius material.
I wonder if musk also thinks of himself a "stable genius".
@@B_Bodziak nah, not a stable genius, more like a mad scientist lol😂
Elon Musk backtracked so hard because Twitter still owes Halli 100M from the purchase of his company. Musk is already drowning from Twitter's purchase. Love Halli's response and the part about "pay what you owe me"!
The question mark after, "You can afford it" was a polite burn.
I bet EM regrets having him fired. Whoever musk told to fire Halli either didn't know Twitter still owed him that huge amount OR they weren't bright enough to think they should tell Musk in case he wanted to rethink letting him go. I hope Halli's sale's agreement with Twitter allows him to force payment in full if he was fired from Twitter. The way things are heading, Twitter may end up in bankruptcy and it would be a shame if the debt to Halli is able to be included. If halli is independently wealthy, he worked because he enjoyed his job. Facebook could gain some public kudo points if they publicly offered Halli a similar position at FB/Meta.
@@B_Bodziak sigh, Musk is probably the only business executive who has no idea what a historical ‘golden parachute’ is and why that friggin thing is scary as all hell if you want to fire a successful executive who’s got that financial safety device set up by a hi-pay lawyer 😮😂 and in business a smart lawyer can be a hell of a good thing, unlike Rudy or Powell or that lawyer trump got from a shopping mall kiosk lately 😂
How anyone can think that Elon would be a quality boss and reasonable is beyond me. At a certain point you should notice the ship sinking...
I’ve always joked about trump and now Musk that if fanboys worked for them rather than just worship them from a distance, they’d hate their guts in just a few months, no minimum wage worker would continue to love them for very long once they see what that’s like 😮😂
Elon is a classic example of Napoleon complex unchecked
Without the abilities of a Napoleon.
Making fun of a disabled person, and Elon Musk is making fun of him... What a heartless human being. That's a lawsuit right there against Elon Musk and Twitter. And that so-called apology wasn't sincere 😒.
The bigger question, Anna, is Why is the world's wealthiest man cutting his own hair???
There's a part to the story you missed (Vaush reported on this) and changed the end part of your story about him being paid on time.
When he talks about Elon paying him what he owes is that when his guy sold the company he founded to Twitter, rather than taking compensation in the form of stocks, he took it in the form of wages that Twitter would pay him over time. If, as has happened, Twitter fires him, then Twitter per their contract owes him all the rest of the wages at the time he's dismissed. In this case we're looking at Twitter owing the guy about 100 million dollars.
But what's more, the reason he didn't get word back from HR about his firing for a week and a half was because his employee file was marked with a special status that he was not to be fired, presumably for this exact reason. So when they had to try to answer the question of if he was fired or not, they really were in a tricky spot of not knowing how to answer.
And of course, being the idiot he is, Elon made these decisions without any foresight in the consequences. He didn't even both to have someone look into the contracts these employees were under, and now is in a rare situation for him where he has to now deal with the consequences of his stupid decisions.
Thank you for posting such a clear and concise description of the entire story. I see bits and pieces in a few comments but you've managed to provide all of the relevant information not given in this video. And, it is definitely relevant!
Elon really needs to learn,
He's Not All That !
As someone who has a spinal cord injury, a central cord syndrome in fact. Which is mainly in the upper extremities, my hands and arms. So while my hand and arms work, they are extremely weak and tire easily. Thus causing them to cramp and cause even more pain. I used to work as a server back in the day, and one of the side jobs that we all had todo was roll silver ware. Unfortunately for me that was one of the few jobs that actually caused my hands a lot of strain and pain. The simple movements needed dexterity and that was very hard for me. There were several employees that would get angry at me when i didn’t roll as much silverware as them. I would explain that due to my SCI from breaking my neck playing football, it was hard for me. Did they care? Nope! “If you can’t do the work, maybe you shouldn’t be a server.”. This was very hard for me because i worked really hard, was a great server but did have some limitations. My boss was very understanding, but i still hated that I had to defend myself. There are people with hidden disabilities, please keep this in mind.
I'm glad other disabled people are speaking out. I'm apparently "too young to be disabled" if I give the people who harass me in public for my disabilities any sort of credence. I some how ended up with a total of 8 bulging discs in my spine, with absolutely no idea how I got them. One of them herniated late last year, causing me to need emergency spinal surgery because I ended up with a rare disorder called Cauda Equine Syndrome. It wasn't to relieve my chronic pain, it was so my nerves wouldn't die and cause me to be permanently paralyzed from the waist down. I also have a messed up immune system, I have had shingles three times and have an uncommon form of Lupus known as NPSLE, which for me meant seizures whenever my lupus wasn't in remission. I also have both of my meniscus torn in my right knee for the last decade, and have had ADHD, a hearing disorder and a speech impediment since birth. I don't want sympathy, I want the world fixed so having something happened that was completely out of your control doesn't mean you, your loved ones and your future descendants aren't destined to live in some form of poverty. Where I could get the resources to work at a job and keep being employed, Musk is proving what many disabled people have been saying all along, discrimination against disabled employees is alive and well, you just have a higher burden of proof than even a criminal court has. It's absolutely no surprised that every year too many people die waiting to hear back on whether or not they get disability, or that you could be profoundly disabled but it never really mattered, because you were denied before they even requested medical records. Or that disabled people give up on being employed due to the hostile working conditions while knowing they will be completely kicked off disability if they do work, so if they do lose their job they may die before they get their benefits reinstated.
That guy should sue Elon for Twitter itself. It's clear Musk can't run Twitter as a business competently, but I'm sure this guy could run it way better.
I'm so happy that I deleted my Twitter. I'm also happy that the person that harassed me on Twitter was ordered to remove every tweet about me and even videos taken from my own social media without my consent.
It's heartbreaking that people can be treated this way. To be fired this way, to be forced to discuss private information on a public platform.. This is why we need to add psychologically and emotionally sound to the standard of leadership and governance, along with a standard in place to address relational challenges. There is no raise, promotion or salary that can compensate for toxicity in the workplace. The human and medical fallout is insurmountable. We can do better than this.😥
Perfectly said! ✌️💞
Not only did Twitter buy his company, Thorleifsson took the $100 million as a salary from Twitter instead of an up front payment. So now Twitter will have to pay out the remaining amount.
We’ve all met Musk’s parents through the media and anyone can see that though he comes from wealth no one in the family has any manners and it doesn’t even appear that they possess normal emotions.
Now, he is in “damage control” mode. Elon that is.