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Elon Musk apologizes after mocking laid-off Twitter employee

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition, March 9, 2020, in Washington. After nine days of being locked out of his Twitter work computer, Haraldur Thorleifsson tweeted at owner Elon Musk, Monday, March 6, 2023, to find out whether or not he'd been fired. [AP]

If you're not told you are fired, are you really fired? At Twitter, probably. And then, sometimes, you get your job back - if you want it.

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