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.
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.”
FULL ARTICLE
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.
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