Twitter is engulfed in flames as hundreds of employees resign

It hasn’t even been a month since billionaire and tech enthusiast Elon Musk took over Twitter, and things have gone horribly wrong, with employees being fired, asked to return, and now deciding to quit.

He famously entered the headquarters of the social media platform with a sink and tweeted, “Let that sink in.” This has come back to bite them, as the incident has become a meme with the phrase “I am going to sink this company.”

The latest scandal reportedly began on Tuesday night, when Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent an email to the company’s remaining employees with the subject line “A Fork in the Road.”

According to The Washington Post, Musk detailed his plans for the company’s improvement, dubbed “Twitter 2.0,” and stated that he wanted it to become “hardcore.”

“This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade,” he reportedly told his employees.

The email included a Google form on which employees could simply click yes or no to indicate whether they wanted to stay with the company. The deadline was set for November 17th.

Shortly after the deadline, “Fortune Magazine” reporter Kylie Robison tweeted that approximately 75% of the workforce (less than 3 000 employees) had not clicked “yes.”

According to reports, Twitter has informed employees that all offices are temporarily closed and badge access is no longer available, effective immediately. There is no explanation for this.

Steph Ruidiaz, a former strategist, tweeted “I still cant believe im writing this but … after nearly 9 years, today is my last day at twitter. there were many times i truly thought i would retire at Twitter someday.”

To add to the chaos, a message was projected onto Twitter HQ that read, “Elon Musk: mediocre manchild, space Karen, pressurized privilege, petty racist, megalomaniac, worthless billionaire, bankruptcy baby, supreme parasite, petulant pimple, apartheid baby.”