Employees flood Twitter with avalanche of goodbyes as Elon Musk's brutal layoffs begin
An avalanche of Twitter employees shared their emotional goodbyes as Elon Musk brutally cut swathes of staff members, giving them just a few hours notice.
Using #OneTeam hundreds of now former employees shared the grim news that they had been made redundant by the social media platform’s new boss.
The popular social media site has hit the headlines recently after Musk, the world's richest man with net worth estimated between $221.5-$254billion, took over in a $44billion swoop.
However, soon after his takeover the South African born billionaire businessman began talking about how the company needed to become more profitable.
This involved policies like charging for the verified status of a blue tick, and also reports emerged that mass-redundancies were imminent.
The sweeping job cuts began today, but workers in America have filed a class-action lawsuit against Twitter in San Francisco saying the lack of notice violated federal and state law.
An internal memo shared around Twitter reportedly said: “In an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult process of reducing our global workforce on Friday.
“We recognise that this will impact a number of individuals who have made valuable contributions to Twitter, but this action is unfortunately ne
cessary to ensure the company’s success going forward.”
Employees were told late on Thursday, via email, that they would be contacted Friday to be told if they still had a job.
The cutthroat fashion was compared to the ‘Red Wedding’ - an infamously bloody scene on Game of Thrones - by one Twitter executive.
As soon as this email went out, internally, staff began posting farewells and flooded the slack channels with so many messages, on one occasion they broke the platform temporarily.
The ‘salute’ emoji came to encompass the pride many of the employees carried for their work and colleagues and they used it to sign off as more and more found their accounts deactivated and emails blocked.