Posted on 11/09/2022 8:17:05 PM PST by DoodleBob
A former Twitter Inc engineer has accused the company of firing him days after it was acquired by Elon Musk because he developed a tool to allow workers to save important documents in anticipation of mass layoffs.
The engineer, Emmanuel Cornet, filed a complaint with the U.S. National Labor Relations Board on Monday claiming he was engaged in protected activity when he shared the software on an internal Twitter messaging channel....Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the complaint.
Cornet, who was based in San Francisco, said in the complaint that he was fired on Nov. 1, a few days before Twitter began laying off about half of its 7,500 employees in a cost-cutting bid by Musk, the world's richest person.
Cornet and four other Twitter employees had filed a lawsuit in California federal court on Friday accusing the social media company of violating federal and California laws requiring employers to give 60 days' notice before engaging in mass layoffs.
Musk in a series of tweets on Friday said Twitter workers who were laid off were offered 90 days of severance pay, which could satisfy Twitter's obligations under the notice laws.
Cornet in the complaint said that late last month, amid rumors of mass layoffs at Twitter, he developed a Google Chrome extension to allow employees to download emails from their Twitter accounts. That would ensure workers could save important documents such as statements reflecting their stock in Twitter, performance reviews, and other human resource documents, he said.
Cornet says he was fired on the same day that he published the extension and posted a link to it on an internal Twitter messaging channel. Twitter removed the link later that day, according to the complaint.
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This is why Elon terminated the useless eaters with extreme prejudice. Internal sabotage of whatever they (mostly millennial types) could get their grubby little communist paws on.
Why is an extension needed? I usually just use print to pdf. I bet the twitter employees wanted to download more data than referenced in the article
He should be prosecuted for stealing company property.
if he was like almost all of those laid off, he wasn’t fired for cause and is still an employee during the WARN period while he’s receiving severance pay ... however, he’s now violated his contract to refrain from publicly criticizing the company and could NOW be fired for cause, thus eliminating his severance pay ...
Personal stock statements would be sent to your home, or accessible in ways other than through the company email systems.
No. Paper is minimized and filing cabinets are a thing of the past in most offices. It’s simply a waste of a space and resources at this point.
More offices are even fully eliminating the cubicle since there no need for employees to keep anything at their desk.
When I first started there was so much paper from printed archives my company leased storage space and had several employees just to maintain it. Now all those papers are backed up in the space of one small book. It is much easier to look at and search through piles of documents via big screen. Original digital files are also much better for forensics than printed versions.
For my business I save archives onto a second cloud and then onto external discs in 2 different locations that are normally disconnected from the network and kept in a faraday bag.
For the rare times I do get a paper original of something important, that is kept in a cabinet. But these days that is pretty much never and we are 99.99% digital. The only important things I can think of still kept on paper are some license certificates from the government.
Why hasn’t he been arrested for Theft and Embezzlement??
Twitter didn’t allow you to download emails and attachments?
Strange...
"That would ensure workers could save important documents such as statements reflecting their stock in Twitter, performance reviews, and other human resource documents, he said."
And the "such as" means that those are just examples -- it would be any document. So it could be confidential work meetings or anything, and he sent this extension to every employee to use on the company email system without asking permission. That's a no-brainer firing offense, almost certainly a direct violation of a written company policy regarding their system.
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