Originally published at: Musk apologies to disabled Twitter employee by blaming other people | Boing Boing
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“My mistakes were made; but not by me.”
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My vague understanding is that Halli has a massive payout in his contract if he gets terminated. I heard the number “100 million dollars” being thrown around.
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Separately, William LeGate , an entrepreneur, showed that Twitter might be on the hook to pay Thorliefsson $100 million as part of his contract. Musk tweeted Tuesday evening that he had spoken with Thorliefsson and decided to keep him on as an employee.
I think there is a lot of speculation on the final number.
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Something Musk and I can agree on apparently: don’t tweet, talk to people
Funny to hear that from the CEO
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Sooo. . . Musk is just using the old “Hey, don’t blame me, I was just repeating something I heard people saying”-- a.k.a. the Fox News defense.
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I appreciate Boing Boing posting this, but the people who posted this on the previous threads from yesterday should be given credit for this story (no offense intended to Frauenfelder). 
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I am not a lawyer, but I don’t think that tweeting a half assed apology for breaking a law necessarily gets you out of trouble.
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“Better to talk to people than communicate via tweet.”
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I wonder if that’s why he hadn’t been formally told that he was fired?
Musk: “Fire him! But don’t tell him that he’s been fired, genius!”
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Exactly, it’s something he should have done due diligence about before spending 44 billion on a communication company that’s bad at communicating. I’d suggest to him that if the moderation were better, it could be a decent way to talk to people, but I refuse to wallow about in Twitter.
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My impression was “fire this guy he’s useless” and then “wait, what happens if we fire him?? How many dollars?? haha just kidding we never fired him.”
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I’m not well versed on the rules of the ADA but does the fact that Halli is based in Iceland matter in terms of standing for a lawsuit? Or is it because Twitter is a US company?
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IANAL but it depends on whether he was employed by Twitter Inc. or a by foreign subsidiary.
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It’s mind-blowing to think of how much more money and prestige Elon Musk would have today if no one had invented Twitter.
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Hey, FYI, you repeated your thought/sentence twice, between the end of the first paragraph and the start of the second.
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