Balmain lost laptop, Slack, and Gmail access an hour after layoff email
Simon Balmain · Elon Musk Laid Me Off At Twitter: Simon Balmain · Nov 9, 2022 · at 2:24
Simon Balmain, a former Senior Community Manager at Twitter based in the UK, describes how Twitter executed mass layoffs after Elon Musk's takeover in November 2022.
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“Within the email kind of said, yeah, there's good, there's gonna be this huge reduction in, in head count. You will, if you're affected, you'll get an email to your personal email. And if not, you'll get something to your work email. And it was within an hour of that going out that I noticed my laptop flash. It had been sort of remotely removed from the system and kind of set to the Mac security pin setting that you get when you sort of remotely wipe or revoke access to systems. And after that I checked and it was the same with my Gmail G suite access that was revoked and my Slack access or revoked as well.”
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