Elon Musk attacks disabled employee he fired and calls him ‘the worst’ in humiliating Twitter spat

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Elon Musk has become involved in a humiliating spat with an employee who was not sure whether he had been fired.

The series of events began when Halli Thorleifsson – who has been employed by Twitter since it acquired his company, and has been working in product design since – asked Mr Musk whether he had been fired. He said that his access to his work computer had been cut off, but that he was yet to receive any official indication of whether he was still employed.

Mr Musk then began an exchange that some referred to as the strangest exit interview ever conducted. He asked Mr Thorleifsson “what work” he had been doing, to which he received a detailed reply.