Have I been fired? worker asks chief executive Elon Musk on Twitter

A Twitter worker has appealed to Elon Musk connected the level to inquire whether helium had been sacked.

In a tweet to the firm's main executive, Mr Thorleifsson said: "Your caput of HR is not capable to corroborate if I americium employed oregon not".

Mr Musk responded by asking: "What enactment person you been doing?"

Halli Thorleifsson told the BBC that 9 days aft being frozen retired of Twitter's accounts helium did not cognize whether helium had been fired oregon not.

After a bid of travel up questions and answers with Mr Musk, that work similar a unrecorded interrogation for his job, Mr Thorleifsson said helium received an email confirming that helium had been sacked.

Twitter did instantly respond to the BBC's petition for comment.

Mr Thorleifsson, 45, was a elder manager successful merchandise plan for Twitter. He told the BBC the ambiguity astir his occupation was "strange" and "extremely stressful".

"I opened my machine connected Sunday greeting 9 days agone and saw that the surface was grey and locked, indicating that I had been locked retired of my Twitter accounts", helium said.

"After a fewer days had passed I started reaching retired to people, including Elon and the caput of HR to inquire astir my situation.

"The caput of HR has since doubly emailed maine and has not been capable to reply whether oregon not I americium an worker astatine Twitter."

Frustrated, helium tweeted his apical boss, Elon Musk.

"Maybe if capable radical retweet you'll reply maine here", Mr Thorleifsson.

After respective travel up questions Mr Thorleifsson supplied a database of things helium had done astatine the company. The speech ended with Mr Musk posting 2 laughing emojis.

Shortly aft that speech Mr Thorleifsson said that Twitter's Human Resources section had contacted him and said that helium had been fired.

The Iceland-based entrepreneur had sold his company, Ueno, a originative plan agency, to Twitter successful aboriginal 2021 - aft founding the steadfast successful Reykjavik successful 2014.

As portion of the acquisition helium became a full-time worker astatine Twitter.

"I decided to merchantability for a fewer reasons but 1 of them is that I person muscular dystrophy and my assemblage is dilatory but surely failing me," helium told the BBC.

"I person a fewer bully enactment years near successful maine truthful this was a mode to wrapper up my company, and acceptable up myself and my household for years erstwhile I won't beryllium capable to bash arsenic much."

Mr Thorleifsson is disquieted that Mr Musk volition not honour the declaration helium signed with Twitter erstwhile helium sold them his company.

"This is highly stressful. This is my status fund, a mode to instrumentality attraction of myself and my household arsenic my illness progresses. Having the richest antheral successful the satellite connected the different extremity of this, perchance refusing to basal by contracts is not casual for maine to accept," helium said.

Last month, Elon Musk appeared to occurrence different 200 Twitter employees. It means that Twitter present has conscionable implicit 2,000 workers - down from astir 7,500 successful October.

"Companies fto radical go, that's wrong their rights," Mr Thorleifsson said. "They usually archer radical astir it but that's seemingly the optional portion astatine Twitter now".