After a week of suspense over rumoured layoffs after Elon Musk’s takeover last week, the job cuts have become a reality.
Unfortunately, Ghana’s own Benard Kafui Sokpe has confirmed his exit from working with the bird app.
Bernard Kafui Sokpe, popularly known as Meistermind on Twitter, senior partner manager for Ghana and Nigeria Twitter partnerships in Ghana, tweeted to confirm his current job status and in solidarity with the thousands of other ex-twitter employees.
Meistermind tweeted: “It’s been a year working at a place I never imagined I’ll ever get to work. I’m glad that I could represent Africa & I didn’t let us down. My best career experience by far & it was beautiful whilst it lasted. Much love to all the amazing tweeps that made it worth it. #OneTeam”
According to a companywide email from Twitter, workers were instructed to go home and not go to the offices on Friday. As badge access was to be revoked until further notice.
“In an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult process of reducing our global workforce.
We recognize that this will impact a number of individuals who have made valuable contributions to Twitter, but this action is, unfortunately, necessary to ensure the company’s success moving forward,” the email read.
Twitter’s manager for Ghana and Nigeria confirms exit from Twitter amidst Elon’s mass layoffs
Twitter email to employees preceding layoffs.
However, the email notice did not mention the total number of employees who will lose their jobs. It was also not signed by Elon Musk or any executive. Just a generic “Twitter” signoff.
Mr Elon Musk, after buying Twitter on October 27, 2022, at a whopping $44 billion, fired its chief executive and other top managers. Managers were also asked to reevaluate their team’s performances whilst other executives resigned.
#One Team is currently trending on Twitter as ex-employees share their experiences. Some employees said they couldn’t access the company’s laptops or log in to their official work emails.
IT’S OFFICIAL. IT’S BEEN AN HONOR. TWITTER STUDIO MANAGING DIRECTOR OUT. SO MUCH LOVE TO THE TEAM THAT ROAD THE WAVE WITH ME. PUT UP WITH MY SLACK SAPPY LOVE NOTES. NAVIGATED BIG CHALLENGES + CREATED AWARD WINNING WORK. ONWARD WE GO. TWEEP FAM 4 LIFE. #ONETEAM #LOVEDWHEREYOUWORK
— CRISTINA ANGELI (@CA_CRISSYANGEL) NOVEMBER 4, 2022
These changes are said to have been in effect sometime at 3 am this dawn. Thus, affected employees woke up this morning without a job – and with no warning.