Most employers know better than to open themselves up to legal liability by tweeting something about a worker's disability — especially something derogatory — but that doesn't mean Elon Musk's kind of thinking is unusual.
last week, which he later apologized for, the Twitter CEO claimed a former employee used a disability as an excuse not to work.Most employers know better than to open themselves up to legal liability by tweeting something about a worker's disability — especially something derogatory — but that doesn't mean Musk's kind of thinking is unusual.
Musk replied, and they had a back-and-forth where Thorleifsson explained his job. Musk mocked him in return, with a clip from the movie "Office Space." Instead of taking a large payout from Twitter, Thorleifsson took a job with the company — a move that was celebrated in his home country because he'd wind up paying higher taxes, as theFinally, Musk wound up apologizing to Thorleifsson for "my misunderstanding of his situation" — and offered him his job back.It's not uncommon for an employer to disbelieve a worker when they say they have a disability, said Ives-Rublee.
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