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Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by Waterluvian »

denton-scratch wrote: post #201
nonethewiser wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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."

> The meals still exist. They're just not free. Evidently Twitter are expecting to serve less of them, otherwise they wouldn't be decommisioning what appears to be a commercial kitchen. My guess is that Musk still hasn't got rid of all the staff he wants to lose. And I suspect that the ones he's already lost weren't the ones he was hoping to lose. I smell panic.

This might also be, “we fired half our employees and expect to make half as many meals.”

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Post by Waterluvian »

deegles wrote: post #212
influx wrote: post #55

I always think about the $10,000 couch in the lobby of the Seattle Twitter office that no one ever sat on. Twitter wasted money on shit that didn’t matter for years.

What would you have chosen to put in place of that sofa?

Inflatable castle.

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Post by mint2 »

Bluecobra wrote: post #174
bgentry wrote: post #92

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Subletting commercial space in San Francisco is not a simple endeavor at this time: https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/sf-office-vacancy-...

Do you have a permit to make this post about San Francisco?

Don’t draw attention! Installing a permitted comment is $1.7M so no one is doing it by the books. It’s unpermitted comments all the way down. Like be honest Did you get a permit for that comment?

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by mythhouse »

astrange wrote: post #243
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.

Sounds dangerous. You could tear your ACL.

small price to pay.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by UncleEntity »

mikeryan wrote: post #98
drexlspivey wrote: post #82

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Is this a joke? You are struggling to think how the richest man on the world can afford to pay interest on a loan? He has assets worth $150B

The interest on the loan is $1B a year. Twitter’s revenue in 2021 was $6B. Can he pay the interest back? Sure. Is he going to have 1B in liquid capital every year? Harder. Does he ever recoup the cost of buying Twitter at that rate? outlook doesn’t look good.

Just because he’s super-rich doesn’t mean he’s immune to bad decisions. Becoming rich and staying rich are two different skill sets. Many a fortune has been squandered by people pursuing bad ideas.

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Post by Ferrotin »

zimpenfish wrote: post #239
nailer wrote: post #216

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It seems fairly clear that Twitter had at least some employees that were adding very little. Trust and Safety leadership enforcing moderation based on political views while ignoring staff concerns about child sexual abuse (per this morning’s news) seems like one example.

> Trust and Safety leadership enforcing moderation based on political views I assume you're referring to the "Twitter Files" revelations* there? Because that showed nothing of the sort, did it?

Yes it did.

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Post by zimpenfish »

Ferrotin wrote: post #256
zimpenfish wrote: post #239

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> Trust and Safety leadership enforcing moderation based on political views I assume you're referring to the "Twitter Files" revelations* there? Because that showed nothing of the sort, did it?

Yes it did.

Can you point to some examples? Note that they have to be examples which only apply to one side (I'm going to assume you mean conservatives) and aren't standard violations of ToS.

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Post by uxp100 »

MontyCarloHall wrote: post #76

Out of curiosity, why announce this auction so early? Bidding doesn’t start for over a month.

Gives you time to arrange a time to come in for inspection. Pretty typical for commercial auctions I think. This one is a little more interesting than most. Commercial kitchen gear is maybe the most common thing I see, but usually someone would have taken home stuff like the bird or the at planter, anything fun or with branding usually doesn’t make it to the auction.

Signed, Someone who wanted unique branded items from a well known local brewery that went under, but just read through 20 pages of “Lot of 100 spoons” instead.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by ipaddr »

orwin wrote: post #208
nonethewiser wrote: post #184

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

I used to work as an intern in a PaaS startup. We had meals paid for by the company. We ate in 35 to 50 minutes, then got back to the office where we started our work environment, putting some work before the official end of the lunch break. I changed jobs and now work as a "freelancer" (i have missions, the last one had an objective and lasted 20 months, the new one is a bit less clear). The meal is practically free…

Sounds like you get more work done with a 90 minute lunch that includes walking/moving then a rushed 30 min in house lunch
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