Ex-Twitter Employee Receives 10-Year Work Anniversary Gift Just Days After Getting Fired
She said the company sent her a card and a commemorative block on Sunday to acknowledge her ten years at Twitter.
After being fired, a former Twitter manager claimed she received a thank-you present from the company for her anniversary. Elaine Filadelfo, a former senior research manager for Twitter's Consumer Insights division, said on Friday that she had been fired after ten years with the business.
"End of an era. This is a brutal way to go after ten years," she said. "This hit my *entire* team."
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She said the company sent her a card and a commemorative block on Sunday to acknowledge her ten years at Twitter.
got a special delivery today!! pic.twitter.com/Xzc3cmEEfJ
¡ª Elaine Filadelfo (@ElaineF) November 7, 2022
The note read: "Elaine, Happy Twitterversary! Congrats on reaching a huge Tweep milestone. We can't wait to see all that you accomplish this year. #OneTeam ¡ª Twitter."
this is 100p real and not a bit. look at the date on the tracking sticker!
¡ª Elaine Filadelfo (@ElaineF) November 7, 2022
On Friday, Twitter slashed over 50% of its workforce in an attempt by its new owner, Elon Musk, to lower operating expenses. Kurt Wagner of Bloomberg said that the communications team was reportedly reduced from 80 to 100 individuals to only two.
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For many employees, the Twitter mass layoffs have been accompanied by turmoil and uncertainty.
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Employees claimed that entire teams had been let go, and some indicated that they had been locked out of work emails before the layoffs were formally announced. In one case, a laid-off worker was claimed to be expelled from the company's systems amid a virtual meeting.
The post has received from many.
Here is how the internet reacted:
So many are celebrating you! Sure beats the parting gift I got in 2016 - a standard shipping box containing a half used container of disinfecting wipes? cc @racheld
¡ª christina (@bogats) November 7, 2022
A wooden block. Does it help to 'touch wood' or is it a way to signify 'dead wood'? Either way, this just shows how things have changed all of a sudden.
¡ª V Sudarshan (@sudarshanindia) November 8, 2022
Anyone knows what @elonmusk is eating these days? https://t.co/liFwfTqBAD
¡ª Robi (He/Him) (@EXTREMEHEAT7) November 8, 2022
Wow. This is great. I never even got a block. https://t.co/INrZXlZhTZ
¡ª kenneth (@kpk) November 7, 2022
While some people praised Filadelfo for working tirelessly, others felt it was a loss for the company to terminate her.
The mistimed gift has been commonly viewed as being incredibly unprofessional.
¡°This takes the whole ¡®pause timed ads¡¯ during a national crisis to a new level,¡± wrote a Twitter user. ¡°There are actually still people left at Twitter,¡± commented another.
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