Elon Musk says free employee lunches at Twitter costs more than $400 per meal

Post by mrtksn » Wed, Nov 16, 2022, 4:45 AM UTC

Shamu wrote: post #10

mrtksn wrote: post #8

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Okay, Twitter originally had 7500 full time employees. There are 260 workdays in a year and let's say %10 of those show up in the office as Musk says and 2 meals a day are served. So this works out as (13000000/(7500* 0.1 * 2 *260)) ~= $33 a meal. How to get this to $400 a meal? That's more than order of magnitude difference. 13M at $400 a meal buys you 32500 meals and this is 125 meals a day served. 125 meals a day…

The approximate 7500 figure is the total headcount of ALL twitter employees (not sure if this figure is global or USA only). According to recent articles, twitter laid off around 7-800 employees from its SF office. If we go by the reports that Musk laid off ~50% of the employees, that approximates around 1500 employees at the SF office. 10% showing up would give us 150 showing up daily.