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Possible pranksters may have posed as fired data engineers

Two men claiming they were Twitter data engineers recently let go under Elon Musk's reign may have been lying to the media.

The potential pranksters were spotted outside Twitter's San Francisco office Friday carrying cardboard boxes just a day after Musk took control of Twitter for the hefty ticket price of $44 billion and ousted its top executives.

One of the alleged employees identified themselves as a software engineer named "Rahul Ligma" during an interview with reporters outside, according to the Verge. However, the outlet confirmed that an employee by that name was not in Twitter’s Slack or email system and that there is no employee by that name on the online employment service LinkedIn.

Representatives for Twitter have not immediately return FOX Business' request for comment.

"Some questions being raised about whether these are really twitter employees. Still trying to verify," Deirdre Bosa, co-anchor of CNBC's bi-coastal tech-focused program "TechCheck," tweeted Friday.

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"confusion reigns outside twitter HQ

are people being let go? Are they trolling the media?

…unfortunately corp comms isn’t returning calls"

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"fyi -some questions being raised about whether these are really twitter employees.

Still trying to verify"

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Oh, well. It was great while it lasted. When do we get to the real cannings?

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
One presumes his people are makin' a list and checkin' it twice

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Originally posted by Skull Leader:
I like how he's given himself the moniker "Chief Twit".

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In a recent open letter, Twitter employees rattled off a list of demands for Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk as his takeover of the company was being finalized.

Among the demands was that workers “be treated with dignity, and to not be treated as mere pawns in a game played by billionaires,” according to TIME, which exclusively reported on the letter three days before Musk’s acquisition closed on Oct. 27.

Workers called for a reversal of Musk’s reported plan to lay off three-quarters of Twitter’s 7,500-strong workforce. It said the threat of such a deep cut is a “transparent act of worker intimidation,” adding that it would impact access to “essential healthcare” and put visa-holding employees in danger of being deported.

While cuts are still expected, Musk recently told Twitter employees they won’t be as severe as 75 percent, according to Bloomberg.

Musk delisted Twitter from the stock market, a move that will give the controversial billionaire more personal control over the now-private company. The social media site’s nine-member board of directors is expected to dissolve, with Musk likely to appoint a new board of his friends and investors, according to the Times.

In their letter, Twitter employees also demanded that Musk “explicitly commit” to preserving their benefits, particularly remote work.

Musk earlier this year cracked down on remote work in his other companies, telling workers at Tesla and SpaceX their days of working from home were over, according to the New York Times. Now-fired Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal told employees this summer they could work from home “forever,” Forbes reported.

Workers also called for leadership to “not discriminate against workers on the basis of their race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or political beliefs.”

TIME noted that it isn’t clear how many Twitter employees signed the letter.

About 530 Twitter employees have left the company in the last three months as the drama of Musk’s acquisition unfolded, according to Insider.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
Now that Musk has completed his acquisition, I'll stay on Twitter, but all the social/political follows are going away. I'll follow tech feeds (probably mostly security-oriented, again) and probably a few manufacturers/vendors (guns, golf, health and fitness, etc.).

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Originally posted by parabellum:
https://twitter.com/mad_libera.../1585961047982153728