Twitter employees showered internal Slack channels with farewell messages and salute emojis as Elon Musk’s “hardcore” stay-or-go deadline passed on Thursday.
Earlier this week, Musk sent a late-night email to Twitter employees telling them to commit to his “extremely hardcore” vision for the firm or be laid off with three months’ severance. The email contained a button for staff to click if they agreed with his vision and wanted to stay at the company, with a deadline of 5 p.m. ET Thursday.
“I’m not pressing the button,” one departing Twitter staffer said in a Slack message Thursday, seen by The Verge. “My watch ends with Twitter 1.0. I do not wish to be part of Twitter 2.0.”
Twitter’s largest Slack channel, “social watercooler,” was overwhelmed with salute emojis — company shorthand for saying goodbye to coworkers — Insider’s Kali Hays reported.
In another Slack message, seen by The New York Times, one employee said: “I’ve met so many friends here. And will always remember the good times at twtr.”
