Musk begs wrongly fired employee to return to work! Employee: I will never trust you again!

According to Bloomberg, after Musk ordered a large-scale layoff, it was discovered that some employees were "wrongly" laid off because Musk needed these key employees to help him develop the new Twitter features he envisioned. On November 5, Twitter began to ask these "wrongly laid off" employees to return to work.

Twitter has now contacted dozens of key employees with relevant work experience and asked them to return to the company. However, some employees rejected this "farcical" invitation because they felt they were "used" and worried that they would be fired again.

Twitter has been sued by fired employees who say Musk did not give 60 days' notice of dismissal, as required by California law.

It is reported that Musk's violent layoffs last week caught Twitter employees off guard, so much so that some employees did not know they had been laid off until they could no longer access the company's email and Slack.

On November 4, Musk defended Twitter's layoffs: "Unfortunately, when the company is losing more than $4 million a day, I have no choice. Everyone who left received 3 months of severance pay, which is 50% more than the law requires."

A report from The Verge said the layoffs range from Twitter's "product trust and safety, policy, communications, tweet moderation, ethical AI, data science, research, machine learning, social good, accessibility, and even some core engineering teams."

Musk has reportedly been working hard to push Twitter employees to launch new features, such as the ability to attach long text to tweets. Although according to some former Twitter employees, some of the features Musk requested were already in development. Previously, Twitter focused on running new features through internal and external testing, but Musk seems to be more focused on external testing. This has led to some employees even having to live in the office and work overtime to meet the accelerated feature delivery time required by the new owner.

Paid verification delayed until after presidential election

Twitter has also reportedly delayed the implementation of Musk's $8-a-month blue checkmark verification fee until after the midterm elections on November 8. Twitter prematurely stated in the release notes of its iOS app update on November 5 that paid verification would be rolled out "starting today." But Twitter executives confirmed in a tweet that the plan has not yet taken effect.

It is learned that paid verification may also be launched this week. Although the plan "was postponed to Wednesday to avoid the risk of possible network outages during the US midterm elections." But a week ago Musk ordered employees to implement the plan before November 7.

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