- Some Twitter employees aren't happy that Elon Musk has returned to his deal to buy the company.
- Several have expressed their frustration on social media and in private forums.
Some Twitter employees aren't happy with Elon Musk's announcement that he will proceed with the deal to buy the company after spending months trying to back out of it.
The billionaire wrote a letter to Twitter saying that he would agree to buy it at the price originally agreed as long the court wrangling immediately ended.
Since then, staffers have been using social-media networks and private forums to vent their frustrations and concerns about the proposed deal.
"Living the plot of succession is fucking exhausting," tweeted Rumman Chowdhury, the director of Twitter's ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability team.
She added that the company did not address the developments when they first emerged: "I am sitting on 2023 company wide strategy readouts and I guess we are going to collectively ignore what's going on."
Another Twitter employee, senior financial analyst Parker Lyons, tweeted a meme complaining that the company's 2023 plans were now "worthless."
Lyons also posted a series of memes lamenting the Tesla CEO's return to the deal, including a joke about Meta recruiters welcoming Twitter employees and an image of a young girl crying captioned: "Me writing my emails today."
CNN reported that some employees had also been venting on Blind, an anonymous private forum popular with Twitter staff.
Employee's comments on the forum were overwhelmingly negative, according to screenshots seen by CNN, with many staffers concerned that Musk would roll back Twitter employee's benefits including severance packages.
According to CNN, one employee commented: "Cue the layoffs."
Musk has alluded to layoffs at the company in the past. During an all-hands meeting with Twitter employees in June, Musk said the company "needs to get healthy."
Employees were informed of Musk's return to the $44 billion deal to buy Twitter with a brief email from Twitter's general Counsel, Sean Edgett, per CNN.
A Twitter spokesperson told Insider at the time: "We received the letter from the Musk parties which they have filed with the SEC. Our intention is to close the transaction at $54.20 per share.
Representatives for Twitter did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment about staff morale, following the news.
Twitter employees have expressed concerns about the potential deal before. In April, a former Twitter executive said many employees had plans to quit in protest if Musk took over.