Twitter employees who were laid off over the past 24 hours arent leaving quietly.
Last Thursday in the SF office, really the last day Twitter was Twitter, Rachel Bonn, a content marketing manager, tweeted, beside a photo of herself. 8 months pregnant and have a 9 month old. Just got cut off from laptop access.
Another former employee, Rumman Chowdhury, who worked on machine learning at the company posted a photo that showed that she had been locked out of her email. A message on her login screen read: your password was changed less than an hour ago. Alongside the photo, she tweeted, Has it already started? Happy layoff eve!
And a senior engineering manager, Joan Deitchman, on the same team shared on Twitter what she called her last Slack message to a team that she said is now gone.
Know that this was a special team. One that stuck together to the end, full of integrity, supporting each other, and willing to stand up and do the right thing, the message said. There will probably never be a team like Twitter META again, a reference to her teams name.
The layoffs come nearly a week after Tesla CEO Elon Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion and set about to quickly overhaul the social media giant. He hasnt tweeted about the layoffs since they started. Instead he lashed out on Twitter about activists trying to destroy free speech by pressuring companies to stop advertising on his service. He said the exodus has resulted in a huge drop in Twitters revenue. Meanwhile, the profile language on Twitters corporate Twitter account, as if shocked by all the upheaval, has been switched to ask no one in particular: Whats happening?!
In the weeks leading up to the takeover, several news outlets reported about Musks layoff plans, including one that said Musk was planning to cut 75% of Twitters workforce of 7,500. The actual total is expected to be 50% of the company, or 3,700 workers.
Back on Twitter, another former Twitter employee, Chris Younie, who worked on entertainment partnerships for the company, and who seemed resigned to being laid off, wrote: well this isnt looking promising. Cant log into emails. Mac wont turn on. But so grateful this is happening at 3am. Really appreciate the thoughtfulness on the timing front guys.
Meanwhile, other former employees have posted messages saying theyre grateful and honored to have worked at Twitter, using the hashtag #LoveWhereYouWorked. Some also posted photos of them with their colleagues, reminiscing on the memories they shared.
But not all employees are upset about being let go.
Honestly happy to be laid off but the veil of @elonmusk is pierced, Kushal Dave, the companys former director of engineering, wrote. As messy as Twitter was pre-elon, it is a veritable clowntown of politics and toadyism and psychological abuse now. Afraid to get in my Tesla with what I learned this week.
And extremely pissed for the people who were on the wrong side of Elons court intrigue. This isnt a game, he continued. Also just bad decision making as a business owner.
Another former employee Kristian Lum, a machine learning researcher, wrote, and Im out. Condolences to the survivors.
Twitter and its former employees cited in this article did not immediately respond to Fortunes request for comment.
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