With whimsical billionaire boss Elon Musk at the helm, working at X/Twitter is fun. No?
Yacin, a techie who joined X/Twitter as a technical staff, was fired from the house of X, despite being an avid contributor and being followed by Elon Musk, the boss himself. The engineer took to their X/Twitter profile and ranted about being axed.
The posts got traction until the boss noticed and tweeted, “It was news to me that Yacin was let go.” However, the tweet was shortly deleted and the techie posted how he even unsubscribed from them as well after an unfollow.
The developer mentioned that they were fired on the grounds of performance; however, they claimed that they had been burning midnight oil solving issues that no one else seemed to bother with, including fixing long tweet notification problems, hacking Apple’s font core text renderer, and others.
The techie also praised Elon earlier, stating, “Elon is maximally aligned to humanity. I really really appreciate everything he’s done. God, I love Elon. He’s seriously just a good engineer.”
i just got fired
please respect my privacy at this time pic.twitter.com/b7s518sXdi
— kache (@yacineMTB) June 21, 2025
Bruh my severance is going to be two weeks and a cardboard box to ship my laptop back in 💀😂
— kache (@yacineMTB) June 21, 2025
I spent so much time going through commit history, learning about the history of twitter, figuring out why decisions were made. It helped me myself make decisions. It helped me learn. I shipped features. I hacked apple’s font core text renderer 🔫
— kache (@yacineMTB) June 21, 2025
in fact, the one thing I will say is that elon is maximally aligned to humanity. i really really appreciate everything he’s done. god, i love elon. he’s seriously just a good engineer
— kache (@yacineMTB) June 21, 2025
fuck it, the other engineers know it wasn’t performance
i don’t care. either let it vest out or don’t let it vest. but understand what either action communicates carefully pic.twitter.com/p4W1i0ZJh2
— kache (@yacineMTB) June 21, 2025
“Was yacine a good performer”
>Yes
>No https://t.co/LS8hlE7Jlt
— kache (@yacineMTB) June 22, 2025
🚫 @elonmusk is no longer following @yacineMTB pic.twitter.com/sQ6FC9CV0C
— Big Tech Alert (@BigTechAlert) June 23, 2025
Meanwhile, in another post, the techie expressed his gratitude that they were not an H1B1 worker or would have gotten deported. “World’s brutal for some people, man,” the techie quipped.
Thank God I’m not an h1b worker because I’d be getting deported. World’s brutal for some people man
— kache (@yacineMTB) June 23, 2025
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