Ps: I’m no native speaker and I don’t use Twitter. So I’m not sure about the tone and the behaviors here. That’s why my asking. For me, it doesn’t sound like mocking but disbelieve (but who knows )
A good answer would be "Check your email, HR has responded to you."
Instead, this guy got:
- asked to describe what his role was (not needed to answer the question)
- when he described his role, 2 "rolling on the floor laughing" emojis
- an Office Space meme, the context of which is useless employees
- an accusation that he was a malingerer feigning a disability to slack off
In the middle of this, Elon tweeted a meme about not being able to feel his legs. Coincidentally, the fellow who he is conversing with is wheelchair-bound and does not have the use of his legs.
He also, of course, got Musk's personal army ripping into him.
The ROFL emojis, Office Space meme and can't-feel-my-legs meme all count as mocking for me.
PS: I’d say the article was poorly written, but now I wonder why it’s flagged? It seems HN users nowadays are ways more hot-tempered than in the past.
Language wise, it was mocking from the start, the lack of professionalism in a conversation with an employee is out of place for a person in any management capacity but might not from close colleagues.
There is so much wrong in Elons response and tone that is hard to articulate without writing multiple paragraphs to cover it all.