The internal situation of Twitter is becoming lunar, to the point that employees are forced to take legal action to keep their jobs. This is indeed the solution that Sinead McSweeney, an executive working in the company’s Irish offices, had to resolve after she refused to answer Elon Musk’s famous email asking employees to adopt a culture “Hardcore”.
Not a day goes by now thata new escapade of Elon Musk at the controls of Twitter from making headlines. It must be said that the billionaire’s ideas and management methods have been erratic to say the least since his arrival at the head of the firm. We were of course treated to the huge fiasco that was the launch of the paid certification, but also to the very controversial decision to restore certain particularly problematic accounts on the platform.
And then there was also the wave of layoffs that are very difficult to justify. Besides the fact that Elon Musk obviously does not appreciate being contradicted in public by his employees, the thing is even more incomprehensible when they are pushed out for refusing to submit to a new corporate culture. toxic as can be. Sinead McSweeney, global vice president of public strategy, has had a front-row seat to this disaster.
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Sinead McSweeney thus recounts having had Elon Musk on the phone on November 13, a few days before he sent this famous email asking employees to adopt the new hardcore culture of Twitter. The CEO then assured him that all competent employees who had left the company would be called to return. “He accepted that people can be talented but have a negative impact on the team and he said he didn’t want assholes,” explains Sinead McSweeney.
From then on, the vice-president said she was reassured, until she herself received the email, specifying that Elon Musk’s objective is to reduce the workforce of Sinead McSweeney’s department by at least 20%. . The latter then refuses to respond and to adhere to the new corporate culture. While thousands of employees were already bidding farewell to the firm on their social networks, Sinead McSweeney refuses to leave his office. However, she claims that the company acted as if she was no longer part of its teams.
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Indeed, Sinead McSweeney received a message shortly after this email notifying her that she had accepted her severance pay. Moreover, she has lost access to all internal systems, including his email account. She then warned the management that she had not resigned from her post, without this causing any reaction. Forced, Sinead McSweeney decides to appeal to justice and obtains an injunction from the Supreme Court of Ireland against Twitterpreventing the company from firing her.
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Following this decision, the Irish justice sent a letter to Twitter, whose lawyers confirmed the reception. They responded that Sinead McSweeney’s dedication to his work “had never been questioned”, before ensuring that she would soon regain access to her professional accounts. However, for now, this is not yet the case. The leader also specifies that she was prevented from attending a meeting, entry into the offices of Twitter having been refused to her.
Before the Court, Sinead McSweeney claimed to have often exceeded the 40 hours of work per regulatory week listed in his contract. Following the multiple layoffs, she explains that she needed to work more than 75 hours per week. She says it’s impossible to trust Elon Musk, who she says runs the company “in an unorthodox way”, without any apparent logic.
Source: The Irish Times