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Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by zimpenfish »

yreg wrote: post #146
qwertyuiop_ wrote: post #99

Surprising the system appears to run efficiently without the extra 7000 employees.

Elon didn't fire _everyone_ so the delta is less than 7k. Still, has it been long enough to evaluate that? The missing employees might be noticeable once there is some big issue with the infra and all the greybeards are gone, or once there is some big EU investigation and all the compliance experts are gone, etc.

> some big EU investigation and all the compliance experts are gone

AFAIK the compliance experts are gone and they have an FTC audit in January.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by nonethewiser »

sio8ohPi wrote: post #109
bombcar wrote: post #12

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They famously shut down the free meals.

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…

> untaxed comp that minimizes the time employees need to spend thinking about food during the day

The meals still exist. They're just not free. So they still dont need to spend time thinking about food. And the company is reimbursed for it.

Obviously it's worse for the employee. But it's not some "own goal."

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by [deleted] »

mberning wrote: post #180
ransom1538 wrote: post #179

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Can they let the homeless stay in the unused floors? Surely they can find a spot in their heart to help out people down on their luck during Christmas.

Sounds nice until they piss, shit, and do drugs everywhere and get your entire company evicted by the building owner.

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Post by nonethewiser »

sio8ohPi wrote: post #154
discreteevent wrote: post #129

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> (at least) order and receive their own lunches and dinners? "At least" would be to make some sandwiches and put them in a lunch box like millions of people do every day.

My experience working in such places has been that most people bring better food. Soup, pasta, rice and beans, etc. I'm sure some people bring sandwiches and eat at their desk, but most people prefer hot food. Food prep at home is cheap, but has a labor cost in time. Are employees really going to do their own food prep in the middle of 80 hour weeks? When I prepped my own meals I was much more inclined to go home at…

You're ignoring that they can still get lunch at Twitter though. It's just not free.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by nonethewiser »

ipqk wrote: post #141
Consultant32452 wrote: post #117

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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.

You can't believe half the stuff that comes out of his mouth. He probably said that so he can justify removing the perk.

But if its true? I mean is it really doubtful that Twitter, a remote company, had very low office utilization?

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Post by moltar »

SilverBirch wrote: post #13

This is pretty unsurprising, they're not really going to raise any serious money from this (what do we reckon? 1FTE Salary at most?) but they've got office space for 7.5k people and less than 3k less. Musk keeps saying "If you code come to the 10th floor" - which basically implies that their entire team of engineers fit onto 1 floor of the building and that there a load of empty floors now that don't need kitchens or…

You'd be surprised. Some of that restaurant equipment is in high demand, and is also pretty pricey. Anything pro grade can be tens of thousands of dollars each.

Just some of those espresso machines are $10K [1] and $25K [2] each.

Freezer is $24K.

Of course, all these are "new" prices.

[1] https://www.espressoparts.com/products/la-marzocco-linea-cla... [2] https://www.espressoparts.com/products/la-marzocco-strada-ee... [3] https://www.webstaurantstore.com/traulsen-rlt232dut-hhs-stai...

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Post by ElevenLathe »

elygre wrote: post #91
mythhouse wrote: post #69

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I worked at twitter's data engineering org in 2018. It was the most relaxed work culture I've experienced. Great WLB ( code for its ok to coast) . Spent my winters working from ski resorts and ski lodges. My mental and physical health were at all time high.

Why is “great WLB” code for “ok to coast”? What does one write for actual great WLB, without the coasting?

There's no such thing when you define "coasting" to mean "work 40 hours a week plus unpaid on-call between 30% and 100% of the rest of your time."

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by speedgoose »

capableweb wrote: post #170
speedgoose wrote: post #130

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Europe is catching up on the obesity rate.

According to what data? Here is a map I came across recently (with references that checks out): https://i.redd.it/3tmf1l3g38n91.png From https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/xbh97v/obe...

I haven’t searched for all Europe but here are two sources about Norway and France:

https://www.fhi.no/en/op/hin/health-disease/overweight-and-o...

https://liguecontrelobesite.org/actualite/taille-poids-et-to...

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by Anon1096 »

giraffe_lady wrote: post #161
whywhywhywhy wrote: post #144

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Question is more why are they paying for moderators when Reddit has proved they’ll do it for free.

Reddit shows that people will sign up to moderate interest-specific forums that they self-select into. Not that people will sign up en masse to generically moderate a large social media platform.

There are a ton of people frothing at the mouth to moderate Twitter for free, it's just that Elon probably doesn't want them too (for good reason!). Hell, many of them regularly @elon even now asking him to remove content they don't like.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by duxup »

defrost wrote: post #21
gonzo41 wrote: post #17

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Wouldn't it just be smarter to sublet the space and fill up the building. Rather than having empty floors on a building you barely use.

There's more than the whiff of a move to Texas in the wind.

I think Twitters priorities are balance sheet related. Moving would seem like a bizarre distraction.
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