If you are not advised you’re fired, are you actually fired? At Twitter, most likely. And then, typically, you get your job again — in order for you it.

Haraldur Thorleifsson, who till not too long ago was employed at Twitter, logged in to his laptop final Sunday to do some work — solely to seek out himself locked out, together with 200 others.

He might need figured, as others earlier than him have within the chaotic months of layoffs and firings since Elon Musk took over the corporate, that he was out of a job.

Instead, after 9 days of no reply from Twitter as as to if or not he was nonetheless employed, Thorleifsson determined to tweet at Musk to see if he might catch the billionaire’s consideration and get a solution to his Schrödinger’s job scenario.

”Maybe if sufficient folks retweet you will reply me right here?” he wrote on Monday.

Eventually, he bought his reply after a surreal Twitter alternate with Musk, who proceeded to quiz him about his work, query his incapacity and wish for lodging (Thorleifsson, who goes by ”Halli,” has muscular dystrophy and makes use of a wheelchair) and tweet that Thorleifsson has a ”outstanding, energetic Twitter account and is rich” and the ”motive he confronted me in public was to get an enormous payout.” While the alternate was occurring, Thorleifsson mentioned he obtained an electronic mail that he was now not employed.

Late Tuesday afternoon, nevertheless, Musk had a change of coronary heart.

”I wish to apologize to Halli for my misunderstanding of his scenario. It was primarily based on issues I used to be advised that had been unfaithful or, in some instances, true, however not significant,” he tweeted. ”He is contemplating remaining at Twitter.” Thorleifsson didn’t instantly reply to a message for remark following Musk’s tweet. In an earlier electronic mail, he referred to as the expertise ”surreal.” ”You had each proper to put me off. But it will have been good to let me know!” he tweeted to Musk.

Thorleifsson, who lives in Iceland, has about 151,000 Twitter followers (Musk has over 130 million). He joined Twitter in 2021, when the corporate, below the prior administration, acquired his startup Ueno.

He was lauded in Icelandic media for selecting to obtain the acquisition worth in wages relatively than a lump sum payout. That’s as a result of this manner, he would pay greater taxes to Iceland in help of its social companies and security internet.

Thorleifsson’s subsequent transfer: ”I’m opening a restaurant in downtown Reykjavik very quickly,” he tweeted. ”It’s named after my mother.” Twitter didn’t instantly reply to a message for remark.

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