Former Twitter employees are warning that they believe Elon Musk thinks laws are "just bulls--t" and that they can be bypassed by some people.
"Elon thinks that all that stuff [laws and regulations] is frankly, just bulls--t, and it's just there to be a harassment," a former senior employee at X told CNN, adding that Musk believes some regulations and procedures can be disregarded.
The former employee cited this belief from when the platform tried to shut down one of their data centers in December 2022 to save money. But when workers tried to tell him that it would take six to eight months "to do it safely," the employee said that Musk was "like, 'f--k it.'"
Another former manager at the social media platform told the outlet, "Musk leads very much like a bull in a china shop that, through the mere force of his desires, his impulsiveness and his will, he tries to do something very immediately bold and disruptive."
After being selected by President Donald Trump to help lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Musk's influence has come under repeated fire from social media users and Democratic lawmakers.
The Tesla CEO was most recently attacked after reports revealed that DOGE had accessed the Treasury Department's payment systems, leading many to question the necessity of this typically restricted information.
Several users also compared a buyout offer received by federal employees in January, proposing that they leave their position in exchange for several months pay, to the email Twitter employees received when Musk took control of Twitter (now X) in 2022. Both offer letters were similarly titled, "Fork in the Road."
Yao Yue, a former software engineer at Twitter, offered advice to those going through the same situation Twitter employees went through in a series of tweets on January 28. She suggested that employees who chose to stay "record things," "take notes" and "don't comply without question."
2. Record things, safely. Take notes. Take voice memos. Take pictures of your screen, emails, or documents using your own device and stash them away in a safe location. They may or may not matter in the end, but if they do, once you lose access there’s no way to ever get it.
— Yao Yue 岳峣 (@thinkingfish) January 29, 2025
"You will survive if you band together with your trusted coworkers, family, and friends. You are not alone. Tell us what you need. We will get through this together," Yue wrote on X.
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