Twitter employee says he was fired 'while sleeping' as Elon Musk takes chainsaw to staff
WSJ Main Street columnist Bill McGurn weighs in on Elon Musk's mass Twitter layoffs as some employees file lawsuit on 'The Evening Edit.'complained on social media that he got fired "while sleeping" after Elon Musk ordered company-wide layoffs on Friday to get Twitter back in the black.
Jaseem Abid, a software engineer, tweeted that he woke up Friday morning and discovered he'd been laid off when he couldn't access Slack and his work email, and found his laptop had been "remotely wiped." "Woke up to no slack/gmail/office access and laptop remotely wiped out. Got fired without even a confirmation email while sleeping? There is always a new low," he wrote.
Musk, who became Twitter's "Chief Twit" last month after completing a $44 billion deal, said the layoffs were necessary because the California-based company was losing more than $4 million per day. A letter to employees
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