- A Twitter software program engineer stated he was fired on Tuesday, just days following Elon Musk took management.
- Emmanuel Cornet said he believes the new management did not want to offer with a “troublemaker.”
- Twitter HR previous calendar year requested him to just take down cartoons he tweeted and posted internally.
A cartoon-drawing Twitter worker thinks he was fired subsequent Elon Musk’s takeover mainly because the new management failed to want to deal with a “troublemaker.”
Emmanuel Cornet, who is also regarded as Manu, joined Twitter past yr as a computer software engineer following leaving Google, where by he put in a decade poking entertaining at the firm with his satirical cartoons.
Insider has claimed that Musk ideas to sack about half of Twitter’s employees and Cornet is 1 of those people who has misplaced his task.
The 41-year-old software program engineer claimed in a blog site write-up observed by Insider: “Since I was a person of the early layoffs immediately after the Oct 2022 acquisition of Twitter, some people have been curious about the causes. My recent understanding is that I was much too much of a prospective troublemaker for the new administration.”
He wrote that soon after he tweeted a cartoon last yr, Twitter HR questioned him to take it down, together with a person he experienced posted internally.
Cornet considered it was extremely not likely that Twitter fired him for poor functionality: “I hope individuals hardly ever appear or keep on being nominal, but the ‘poor performance’ layoffs have not began still.”
Manu Cornet
As Musk visited Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters previous 7 days, Cornet handed him a cartoon with a note that read: “I hope you do not thoughts a ‘court jester’ at Twitter or you will have to get me fired,” signed with an emoji sticking his tongue out.
Musk reportedly responded: “Perfectly, I purchased it in any case.”
Cornet concluded: “I you should not keep any grudges against people today who ended up just undertaking their job when confronted with a naive and mildly idealistic troublemaker like me, and I cherished my time at Twitter, specifically my coworkers.”
Twitter did not quickly answer to Insider’s ask for for comment.
