Whether Twitter was "wrong" to fire him is not really relevant. The employee in question wasn't trying to get his job back, but just trying to get a straight answer about whether he was fired and whether Twitter would honor their contractual obligations, only to get dumped on by Musk and his remora-like followers.

Contractual obligations are relevant because Twitter is famously just ignoring their obligations and stiffing their vendors and contractors, under Musk's watch. This is also something he did with Tesla. So its entirely believable that Musk intends to do the same here.

He started out by asking Musk if he was fired. An employee has a right to know this, whether they're laid off or fired for cause. HR could have told him that, and he did ask them first, for days. Musk could have directed HR to finish his paperwork, or his manager to tell him what's up.

Even if this guy was doing zero work, it doesn't matter. The employer at some point has to say your employment has ended as of today. This is generally required to be given it written form. Locking you out of systems != firing, it can be something done by accident or for a multitude of legitimate reasons.

If you just want to talk about facts, it's this: as an employer, Twitter was required to give notice, and they didn't. If his written notice was as of yesterday then I think Twitter owes him for that 9 days plus whatever else his contract says.

Ironically, weather the guy did his job or not has absolutely no material affect on the discussion of his termination! He could have been the absolute best or worst employee in the history of the world, and the way twitter/elon handled this would be terrible regardless. You somehow managed to find the one thing that _absolutely does not matter_ and fixate on it while wrapping yourself in the flag of "I only care about logic."

It doesn't matter if that person was good at his job (which btw from whatever his peers say about him, he most definitely was) - everybody deserves a right to at least be told that they are fired and no longer working at the job.

> 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.

> If we get the answer, shouldn't we ask if Twitter is wrong to fire a disabled person if he didn't do his job?

I would assume that would be dependent on said answer, but you weren’t actually trying to propose a real question were you…