A fired Twitter engineer said he would have come up with 'way cleverer and more devastating jokes' about Elon Musk if he'd known he was getting canned

If he'd known he was going to be fired, he would have made funnier and more damaging jokes about Musk.

After laying off half of the company's workforce, Musk has been firing workers for critical of him and his leadership on the platform, leading to some workers removing their posts out of fear for their jobs.

A current employee told Insider that the firings seemed to target many people in an internal Slack channel called Social Watercooler, which has around 2,000 members and has been used by staff to chatter and criticize the company.

"I've been fired for recent behavior in violation of unnamed company policy and I'm hanging out in the social-watercooler," said Daniel Fletcher on November 15.

There were some posts that were critical of Musk's leadership, including one by Benjamin Leib who said that Musk has no idea what he's talking about.

He posted a thread about his time at the company. He commented on the jokes he believed caused his layoffs, as well as discussing his job and praise for his colleagues.

If I had known I would be fired for participating in the 1200 RPC discussion, I would have made funnier and more devastating jokes.

We were just having fun.

The 1200 RPC discussion refers to Musk's apology for the app's performance. Leib, as well as two other engineers, said they were fired because of their public criticism.

After the thanos snap, I was in the middle of building a generic system for harmful media detection when the axe found me.

Musk's layoffs have been referred to as "the Thanos snap," a reference to the comic book character who snapped his fingers and wiped out half of the universe.

I had intended to spend my entire career at the micro-messaging site.

After Musk took control of the company, both current and laid-off employees were quick to make fun of him on the micro-blogging site.

Dozens of employees have left the company in the wake of mass layoffs and targeted firings. The voluntary layoffs came after Musk told workers they would need to be extremely hardcore and work long hours if they wanted to keep their jobs.

According to a person familiar with the company's processes, less than half of the company's 4,000 employees chose to stay at the company.

I bet that thousands of years of domain knowledge and expertise left the social networking site. The day before his deal to buy the platform went through, Musk brought a sink into the company's headquarters.