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Remember when Elon Musk ordered Twitter staff two years ago to \u201cclick yes\u201d in an email to promise to work in \u201cextremely hardcore\u201d mode or risk losing their jobs? One of those employees who didn\u2019t click \u201cyes\u201d just won a major ruling, according to the Irish news service RT\u00c9<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Ireland\u2019s Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) ruled that Gary Rooney, a former senior executive for the company known then as Twitter, was unfairly terminated when he refused to agree to Musk\u2019s email ultimatum in 2022 after nine years with the social media company. The commission also ordered X to pay Rooney \u20ac550,000 (roughly $605,000).<\/p>\n WRC adjudication officer Michael MacNamee singled out Musk\u2019s requirement to click \u201cyes\u201d as unfair because refusing to do so \u201cwas not capable of constituting an act of resignation.\u201d Therefore, the company had no grounds to justify Rooney\u2019s termination, according to the news report.<\/p>\n Musk sent an email to all Twitter employees<\/a> in November of 2022 just a month after taking over the social media company issuing an ultimatum of commitment. The email with the subject line \u201cA Fork in the Road\u201d told Twitter\u2019s then staff that they should expect to work \u201cextremely hardcore\u201d including \u201clong hours at high intensity.\u201d Musk gave his staff the opportunity to click a link in the email \u201cIf you are sure that you want to be part of the new Twitter\u201d and gave them 24 hours to either agree to the commitment by clicking the link or refusing to do so. Those who didn\u2019t click the link would be terminated and given three months of severance pay.<\/p>\n MacNamee ruled that Musk\u2019s 24-hour deadline was not a \u201creasonable notice\u201d for his staffers to consider the fate of their jobs. He also said no employee \u201ccould possibly be faulted for refusing to be compelled to give an open-ended unqualified assent to any of the proposals.\u201d Twitter\u2019s HR department confirmed that Rooney\u2019s termination was due to his decision not to click the email link despite not knowing about a possible severance or the implications of staying with the company.<\/p>\n Rooney is far from the last of Musk\u2019s former employees to take their former employer to court either for his behavior or what they deemed to be an unjust termination. A lawsuit filed earlier this year by a former SpaceX employee<\/a> accused the company of gender discrimination and basic safeguarding failures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n