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Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by electroly »

Consultant32452 wrote: post #117
sio8ohPi wrote: post #109

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That's wild. It's untaxed comp that minimizes the time employees need to spend thinking about food during the day. He's mandating employees come back to the office for long hours, but now they need to (at least) order and receive their own lunches and dinners? If he's trying to retain some sort of high-intensity hardcore ninja startup bullshit, I would think free food would be the last thing cut. Or is he planning fo…

Musk said publicly the free food was rarely eaten. They had more people cooking breakfast than eating it. That’s probably exaggeration, but it’s probably true that it had little utilization.

It was rarely eaten because nobody was in the office, wasn't it? If he forces everyone to return...

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by bobitronn »

pavlov wrote: post #11
ShivShankaran wrote: post #5

I am struggling to think how Elon is going to pay the interest on the loan he took for buying Twitter. On other hand his collateral , tsla stock, is crashing. He got carried away to make this purchase during the rising tide of covid bull market. I suspect this is going to severely affect both tsla and twtr

Apparently he’s looking to replace some of the expensive debt with new margin loans backed by his TSLA shares: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-08/musk-bank... IMO this Twitter deal has been nothing but bad news for Tesla shareholders. The CEO is completely distracted and forced to sell his shares, and the company has been dragged into stupid culture wars. Tesla brand perception has crashed among Democ…

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Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by zimpenfish »

yreg wrote: post #103
LightG wrote: post #22

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By the time they make the move, they'll be able to fit all the staff in a campervan. They can take a road trip over to Texas.

Why is the sibling comment flagged and dead?

At a minimum, I'd suggest "office freeloaders" and "energy vampires" are indicative of someone not commenting in good faith.

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Post by kibwen »

SanjayMehta wrote: post #86
lapcat wrote: post #49

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Reddit has an army of unpaid moderators. Not to mention the Reddit users who upvote and downvote. Also, politicians and other important public figures don't use Reddit like they use Twitter.

Anyone know why those unpaid mods do what they do? It's like a cult.

I have a subreddit dedicated to a specific programming topic, and I moderate it so that the intelligent, interesting, insightful, and empathetic members continue to participate and aren't driven away by trolls and low-effort content. There's nothing wrong with volunteering in order to make the world (from one's own perspective) a better place to inhabit.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by j-bos »

For those interested in buying but not in SF, you'll need to arrange your own pickup, craigslist style:

"Buyers may either pick up Goods at the designated auction site themselves or can contract with a third party agent to manage the removal process for them."

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by kzrdude »

philliphaydon wrote: post #127

I feel like the more we learn about Twitter the more it’s just a tiny company that tried to look like Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple. It’s really just a trash company that had a lot of junk and a lot of people doing nothing with overly inflated salaries.

Why is twitter trash? Problems are pointed out with all those four large companies way more often than with twitter. Maybe smaller companies with smaller scope are in fact more productive, effective and less problematic rather than the opposite.
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