Liberal tears are falling like rain as 3,700 Twitter employees got their email pink slips. They’re so furious they’re suing over it. Elon Musk expected that. It happened when he did it at Tesla, too.
Twitter staff cut in half
The sudden mass layoff at Twitter has Democrats stunned. It didn’t take long for some opportunistic attorneys to file a class-action lawsuit over Elon Musk’s “plan.” Somebody needs to remind him that the plan has already been executed.
Thousands of the platform’s employees “were abruptly locked out of their company Slack and email accounts, and barred from going into the office.”
The suit was filed Thursday and Twitter simply closed the offices down on Friday, telling those who were there to go home and everyone else to stay home. All employees were told to watch their email accounts closely.
Elon Musk fired the entire team that identified that the Twitter algorithm amplifies right-wing voices over others.
Not the first time we have seen staff — particularly Black employees — punished for flagging how their company's products enable & amplify racism. #TwitterLayoffs
— Rashad Robinson (@rashadrobinson) November 4, 2022
Around half the payroll is about to be slashed and employees are furious they didn’t have proper notice. That’s a “violation of federal and California law.”
Under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, Musk was supposed to give employees “60 days’ notice of mass layoffs or other work disruptions.” The lawsuit on behalf of affected employees demands that the court “restrict Twitter from soliciting staffers to sign documents that could give up their right to take part in litigation.”
Lawyer Shannon Liss-Riordan wants all her clients to be aware “that they should not sign away their rights and that they have an avenue for pursuing their rights.” She gets paid whether they win or lose.
Has it already started? Happy layoff eve! pic.twitter.com/0AcaQjGJvm
— Rumman Chowdhury (@ruchowdh) November 4, 2022
Your Role at Twitter
Musk told all staffers to watch their email accounts. If they got one on their office account with the subject line “Your Role at Twitter” it would mean they still had a job and the email would contain more details. The losing half would get an email on their personal account instead. One with separation paperwork.
“We recognize that this will impact a number of individuals who have made valuable contributions to Twitter, but this action is unfortunately necessary to ensure the company’s success moving forward.”
The same attorney who filed the Twitter suit already “sued Tesla over similar claims when the electric-car maker laid off about 10% of its workforce.” It didn’t stick.
Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists.
Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2022
“The company won a ruling from a federal judge in Austin forcing the workers to pursue their claims in closed-door arbitration instead of in open court.” Musk called the Tesla suit “trivial” when once asked about it.
Ms. Liss-Riordan, Esq. isn’t phased by Elon Musk’s aloofness. Twitter has deep pockets and she wants as much as she can get in hefty fees. “We will now see if he is going to continue to thumb his nose at the laws of this country that protect employees,” she snarled. He probably will.
After what he overpaid for the company in the first place, he can afford paying all the liberals he laid off a couple months severance pay. He’ll make that up on the payload fees from the next Space-X launch.