Business Citing $13 Million Price Tag With 20% Capacity Used - Elon Musk Cancels Twitter's Free Meal Program. Employees Cry Some More. - “There are more people preparing breakfast than eating breakfast”

Well, the worst nightmare of "workers" at Twitter, having to work more and party less, just got that much worse... the latest perk to be taken? Free lunches (that nobody used).




Twitter workers who survived the chopping block after Elon Musk overpaid for the social media site will soon have to pay for their own meals.

The billionaire said he will scrap the free meals served at Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco because it was costing the company around $400 per worker.

Musk completed his $44 billion takeover of Twitter last month and promptly fired about half of the 7,500-person workforce.

He also proceeded to mandate a return to the office and pointed to the lack of mouths to feed as driving up the cost of the free-lunch program.

Musk took to Twitter on Sunday to say that offering free meals at the company cafeteria had become unsustainable because “almost no one came to the office.”

He estimated the free meals cost the company around $13 million a year.

A Twitter employee who quit after Musk took over denied his claims hours later, saying the free meals cost the company no more than $25 per person per day.

“There are more people preparing breakfast than eating breakfast,” Musk said. “They don’t even bother serving dinner, because there is no one in the building.”

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As you'd expect, the usual suspects are Tweeting with Rage (tm) at Musk, claiming everything from being starved to him lying about the costs.

Also as you'd expect, the blowback from the non-Twitterized public has been prompt, massive and unsympathetic, with the majority of people pointing out your average worker does NOT get fed for free should they CHOOSE to come into the office.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

The people who complain about Elon Musk using that 44 billion USD to "solve world hunger" instead of buying Twitter are absolute lunatics. At most Elon Musk would be able to buy everyone on Earth a Happy Meal. Just one. He would solve world hunger until dinner.

A plan was published last year about how Musk could solve world hunger (my rant about it).

Key quote

The US$6.6 billion required would help those in most need in the following way: one meal a day, the basic needed to survive – costing US$0.43 per person per day, averaged out across the 43 countries. This would feed 42 million people for one year, and avert the risk of famine.

When people want Musk to "solve world hunger", they want him to feed a subset of the world a single 43 cent meal per day. At my local McDonald's 43 cents could get me 1.5 packets of BBQ sauce, a happy meal would be a luxury.

 

[Tanner Glass]

A plan was published last year about how Musk could solve world hunger (my rant about it).

Key quote


When people want Musk to "solve world hunger", they want him to feed a subset of the world a single 43 cent meal per day. At my local McDonald's 43 cents could get me 1.5 packets of BBQ sauce, a happy meal would be a luxury.

Not included in the well reasoned rant was

US$400 million for global and regional operations management, administration and accountability

US$700 million for country-specific costs to design, scale up and manage

Basically Musk is supposed to donate the entire 6 Billion, but the people who work there need to get fucking paid (they need offices, security, and so on) and will take up operationally 1.1 Billion - at a minimum. Nearly 20% of the entire budget goes to admin and the best they can do is move the goalposts from "ending world hunger" to "slightly slowing it down a bit, for some specific people".

 

[SBG]

I don't understand why they made the food beforehand. It looks good, the plating looks good, but the way they were doing it seems like a waste.

Like I get why a company would feed employees. Someone making $200,000 a year spending an hour and a half to eat out versus half an hour to eat in, that's a lot of money at the end of the year.

I don't get why they didn't do it like the cafeteria at the student union at any mid-sized college.

Burrito station, pizza station, burger station, curry station, salad bar. Pre-packaged cold sandwiches and wraps.

This is not rocket science.

Get three Mexicans, a Dago, and two Pajeets and they'll have it turning a profit in a week.

To be fair, they did do stuff like the pancake, waffle stations, sushi stations and whatever else.

But they look like they were going all out with everything, every day, with multiple choices for everyone due to dietary issues.

The fact they didn't have to turn a profit means they'd never have to deal with managing waste so they could go overboard with providing everything everyone wanted. All makes me curious just how much they were paying the staff in the back to be able to mess around like this.

Knew a woman once who told of working in one college cafeteria. She was an executive chef there alongside like a half dozen others and none of the others felt the need to do any actual cooking since they were similar to the managers of the place. She did cook though and it actually annoyed them (likely since it made them look bad). So I have to wonder, what kind of salaries did the cooks at Twitter get and what did they do?

 

[Gar For Archer]

Not that that would save them any money, you just KNOW the SF crowd expected Whole Foods-grade fare at the cafeteria...... there were probably no "institution sized" cans of vanilla pudding on the shelf in that kitchen. With most of it going in the trash instead of being served.... ironic, the "eat bugs to save the world" crowd probably wasted a small town's worth of food every day and thought nothing of it.

Not ironic at all; in their dream world, you are eating the bugs, not them.

 

[Paul Pelosi's Boyfriend]

Not included in the well reasoned rant was



Basically Musk is supposed to donate the entire 6 Billion, but the people who work there need to get fucking paid (they need offices, security, and so on) and will take up operationally 1.1 Billion - at a minimum. Nearly 20% of the entire budget goes to admin and the best they can do is move the goalposts from "ending world hunger" to "slightly slowing it down a bit, for some specific people".

Realistically that's the most that can be done. The warlords in Africa are not going to be swayed by your kind words and generous heart.

 

[Eggplant Wizard]

It is a symbol of the overwhelming wealth in tech companies. Check out this article from 2012 by Penny Arcade, when they began reporting on gaming industry topics and decided the first thing they will do is tour Valve:

https://web.archive.org/web/2012101...penny-arcade-report-goes-for-a-tour-though-th

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It isn't just Twitter that needs to downside on retardation, that's for sure. Gen Xers seem to treat their workplaces as playgrounds and school cafeterias.

I give it a pass when the company might lose money if someone actually does something, such as in the case of Valve. The passive income is ridiculous. Same for Microsoft, the world literally needs their services, so they can play around on the clock a bit too. Twitter…no. Just no.

 

[AnOminous]

Nearly 20% of the entire budget goes to admin and the best they can do is move the goalposts from "ending world hunger" to "slightly slowing it down a bit, for some specific people".

At this point, Musk literally owns the whole joint. He has no obligations to anyone. The sole issue is "does this make money for me personally" and if it doesn't, Musk brings down the axe.

This is exactly what I hoped for. I love watching these little nematodes whining that their tapeworm existence is ceasing to exist.