Layoffs at Twitter were supposed to be a big news story; Reuters had even set up a live video feed outside of Twitter headquarters so people could watch all of the poor ex-employees walking out … apparently not knowing that employees had been told not to come in that day. CNBC had a reporter on the ground who interviewed two former employees holding cardboard boxes of their belongings. She said they were a couple of “visibly shaken” data engineers named Rahul Ligma and Daniel Johnson. Johnson said he owned a Telsa and how no idea how he was going to make the payments.
It turns out that Ligma and Johnson were just trolling the media, and Elon Musk called it “one of the best trolls” of the media ever.
Ligma Johnson had it coming 🍆 💦 pic.twitter.com/CgjrOV5eM2
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2022
After Musk fired an employee in real-time for trying to embarrass him on Twitter, some asked if Ligma and Johnson would be welcomed back. And indeed they were.
Welcoming back Ligma & Johnson! pic.twitter.com/LEhXV95Njj
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 15, 2022
Important to admit when I’m wrong & firing them was truly one of my biggest mistakes
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 15, 2022
🤣🤣
This is true comedy— Optimus (@TeslaAIBot) November 15, 2022
Legends
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 15, 2022
Legendary trolling 👏👏👏
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) November 15, 2022
GIVE THEM FREE LUNCH!
— 🫃🏼🇺🇦💉Hollaria Briden, Esq. (@HollyBriden) November 15, 2022
Didn’t Ligma just get fired from @FTX_Official ?
— Badluck (@Badluck33) November 15, 2022
Yes, they let him go too.
Former FTX employee, Rahul Ligma, says FTX has just fired an entire team of data engineers at their HQ in the Bahamas. pic.twitter.com/pMM3awkBEv
— Chairman (@WSBChairman) November 10, 2022
Might be the greatest tweet on this app.
— Frank (@frankdegods) November 15, 2022
Okay this one is legendary.
— Austin Rief ☕️ (@austin_rief) November 15, 2022
A shining example of putting ego aside and doing the right thing 👏
— John Knopf (@JohnKnopfPhotos) November 15, 2022
Employees of the month !!!
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) November 15, 2022
legendary twitter moment
— djo (@dylanorrelI) November 15, 2022
so glad you guys could work it out
— Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) November 15, 2022
Not the heroes we deserved but the heroes we needed
— Martynas_Why? (@MartynasWhy) November 15, 2022
This picture belongs in a museum
— Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) November 15, 2022
I'm crying
— Ricky Berwick (@rickyberwick) November 15, 2022
Musk might have an infantile sense of humor, but 1) he has a sense of humor, and 2) he’s declared that “comedy is now legal on Twitter.”
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