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Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by mindslight »

buggy6257 wrote: post #60
jonahx wrote: post #56

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> and then proceed to be publicly mocked on Twitter for their physical disability Today is my first time hearing about this scandal. Do you have a link to the mocking in question?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1633011448459964417 He also had a (now deleted) comment where he called the guy "just the worst": https://twitter.com/JamesClayton5/status/1633155915892527104

"The reality is that this guy (who is independently wealthy) did no actual work, claimed as his excuse that he had a disability that prevented him from typing, yet was simultaneously tweeting up a storm. Can’t say I have a lot of respect for that."

This is rich coming from the dude that got so addicted to Twitter he bought the entire company. It looks like we're in the "there's always a tweet" period of Elmo's implosion.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by 93po »

Pxtl wrote: post #152
starik36 wrote: post #86

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You mean people being let go? There have been layoffs in ton of SV companies, complete with fake "I take full responsibility". I am not sure what to do, other than let go people, if the company is hemorrhaging money with not much to show for it.

This is not just somebody being let go. Publicly grilling your employee with the mocking "what would you say you do here" on Twitter is ludicrously unprofessional, following up with trash-talking him about using his disability as an excuse for not producing. I honestly question Musk's sobriety at this point.

The employee made this public, not Elon.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by RivieraKid »

jack_riminton wrote: post #42

Elon's descent into an asshole Howard Hughes continues at pace. Part of me thinks Elon's doing this just to be the most talked about person on twitter again, which is equally abhorrent

He was always an asshole. People often say that he has changed but that's not really true.

He seems to have less self-control due to stress and power, it's like some people become aggressive after drinking alcohol.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by cody_coconuts »

starik36 wrote: post #116
JeremyNT wrote: post #108

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There's a "right" way and a "wrong" way to go about reducing headcount. I'm not exactly sure what the "right" way is, but I'm pretty sure that Elon's way ain't it.

The only thing that matters is what you take from it. Severance. Everything else is completely and utterly immaterial.

That might be the only thing that matters to you, but that's not what matters to many others, or notably, the law

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by octernion »

ClawsOnPaws wrote: post #142
danso wrote: post #81

To build a world-renowned web design firm based in Iceland (population 370k, barely bigger than Cincinnati, Ohio) is pretty astounding. Looking at the beautiful "coming soon" homepage [0] he presumably built for his restaurant (which is named after his mom [1]), I can see why he was well-respected in the field [0] https://annajona.is/ [1] https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633109753890058242

That site really doesn't play well with screen readers. When I clicked the link for the first time I was severely confused. I had to come back here to read that I had to scroll, and when I did, sometimes some new text showed up, and other times it didn't. This is just an observation. I understand that some people love making lovely things, and that sometimes those things are at odds with being accessible to some peop…

it's a website for an unopened and unadvertised restaurant. i am not sure what you expected.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by masfuerte »

DiggyJohnson wrote: post #141
walrus01 wrote: post #76

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This is a murder fantasy and has no place on HN, in my opinion.

"Smart" devices are getting everywhere, but surely no-one would build a Mars base that stops working when it loses comms.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by 93po »

Orangeair wrote: post #140

Surreal to me to see how many people in this thread and trying to steer the conversation towards whether or not the firing was justified based on his job performance. What the actual fuck does it matter? In what world is it okay to fire someone without communication and then publically mock them like Elon did here? I'm truly unable understand the willingness some people have to jump to the defense of billionaires.

Elon isn't mocking him - the employee made this public and Elon is defending his choice to fire him. It's interesting how Halli doesn't actually defend that he did any work, because it's clear he didn't. Instead he's tweeting "Let me know if you are going to pay what you owe me?" at Elon, which is only furthering Elon's stance that this dude is looking for a payday and went to publicly smear Elon to bully him into paying out while hamming up his "I built a trillion wheelchair ramps" and other awards.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by Quarrelsome »

starik36 wrote: post #116
JeremyNT wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a "right" way and a "wrong" way to go about reducing headcount. I'm not exactly sure what the "right" way is, but I'm pretty sure that Elon's way ain't it.

The only thing that matters is what you take from it. Severance. Everything else is completely and utterly immaterial.

that's not entirely true. Going out of your way to slander your former employees while revealing private medical information about them is nowhere near as kind as stating that your former employees are hard-working but the company simply made strategic employee head-count mistakes and needed to downsize.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

hintymad wrote: post #80

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> did this guy do his job in Twitter, or did Musk lie?

Honestly, that is completely irrelevant in my opinion of Musk. Musk just continues to delight in being a grade A psychopath and asshole, that's why I wish he would just shut up so I don't have to continually hear what assholish thing he does next.

To start with, the Director of Twitter HR was not even able to tell the employee if they still worked there. That is beyond fucked up. Musk's answer should have been a simple yes or no, not getting into some sort of "prove to me your worth peasant" bullshit in a public forum.

Musk has proven again and again that he is simply a lying asshole. I honestly don't care how much he's worth or how successful he is. He treats everyone around him like shit, and I don't understand why anyone would idolize that.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by Pxtl »

93po wrote: post #162
Pxtl wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not just somebody being let go. Publicly grilling your employee with the mocking "what would you say you do here" on Twitter is ludicrously unprofessional, following up with trash-talking him about using his disability as an excuse for not producing. I honestly question Musk's sobriety at this point.

The employee made this public, not Elon.

The employee made the question "am I fired or not, I tried to ask through the proper channels and got nothing" public, which is imho reasonable especially after 9 days.

Musk, being the head of numerous companies, should know better than to respond with anything other than "I'll follow up with HR".

When alt-right weirdos ask him crap, his response is just "looking into it". That's all he needed to do here.

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