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.

 

[MG-34]

Fuck we didn't even get free food in the military and these California assholes were getting free gourmet lunches that were largely going in the trash? How do NPCs feel bad for these faggots yet bemoan the 1% in the same breath?

 

[Stoneheart]

's hard for people not in the industry to understand. Engineering is the value generator for these companies. Employee related costs is always going to be the greatest cost to a company, but these companies profitted 3-10x per employee that they hired. Employees are all salaried, so some companies try everything to squeeze the maximum amount of productivity from every employee. Free food is a drop in the bucket.

Its a horrible idea to give those perks to HR and other people that dont generate money.

We get free lunch at work too, but thats only for people who work in production and people who work in planning and stuff like that. HR has to pay for their food.
Why? because it takes a year to train the lowest level in production and losing one is very expensive. HR can be replaced in a day and they dont need any training.


ALso whats up with wine from Tap? who does that?

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

Wow.
Twitter workers are, like, African diamond miners n' shiet.
Those pooor dudes, I feel soo soory for them.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

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Yeah but they weren't just eating eggs, toast and ham.

I don't like hitting women. But 100% I wanna spark her out, holy fuck.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

Fuck we didn't even get free food in the military and these California assholes were getting free gourmet lunches that were largely going in the trash? How do NPCs feel bad for these faggots yet bemoan the 1% in the same breath?

When the fuck did they stop doing free food?

 

[MG-34]

When the fuck did they stop doing free food?

It was always taken out of your BAS unless you lived outside of the barracks as far as I can remember unless you were at a deployed location.

 

[sadrefrigerator]

Its a horrible idea to give those perks to HR and other people that dont generate money.

We get free lunch at work too, but thats only for people who work in production and people who work in planning and stuff like that. HR has to pay for their food.
Why? because it takes a year to train the lowest level in production and losing one is very expensive. HR can be replaced in a day and they dont need any training.


ALso whats up with wine from Tap? who does that?

HR and other non product employees are considered support cost for product development. Meaning X number of engineers would need Y number of HR (and every other kind of employee). The total costs for support staff (including the meals and benefits) are considered when hiring an engineer. In the end it is still profitable.

 

[Burned CDs]

CEO of the year

 

[SBG]

Looked up some of the food they'd do and it does look nice.

Can see how it could have cost a bit, but the main issue was probably just a lack of employees actually showing up the building. It is easy to see though how they probably did require a decent bit of staff in the kitchen to actually prepare multiple options for everyone every day and it had to have looked all the more obnoxious to Musk when he saw how disrespectful the employees were.

Like there was a lot of seething over this guy especially:


Some of the eggs benedict they'd do:

The chicken Romesco:

 

[Loose Goose]

Something does not add up with the numbers, even if it is pricy food and expensive chefs. Someone at HQ probably had his fingers in the cookie jar. With these wasteful companies, a lot of money flows out unnoticed, and it is not just through sinecures for entitled upper class bums. Those can be serious revenue streams if nobody does an audit.

 

[Criticallacitirc]

Ok hear me out. The Twitter HQ sits right next to Junkie Street Shitter HQ in SF. Twitter got a massive tax break because it was supposed to revitalize the mid market area, but it never happened . There's really no where to eat and it's like a 3rd world country right outside your door. I sorta understand the free food as a way to keep employees from venturing outside and getting shanked or slipping in human feces.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

The price isn't even the biggest issue here, but rather how these oversized children

Emphasis on "oversized".

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

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yeah too many food wasted

That reminds me - has anyone confirmed whether that airheaded cunt was one of the people that got shitcanned?

 

[Happy Fish]

Honestly I'd be annoyed if I were at a company with an employee cafe and they cut those benefits. On the other hand it is Twitter so fuck them.

 

[notafederalagent]

In a previous career, I used to call on a pulp/paper mill. I would love to see these entitled, pampered fucks try to make it just one hour doing actual work in a quite literal Hell, then having to eat the "food" that was provided by the canteen. Modern society has made people softer than baby shit.

 

[Looney Troons]

A lot of larger companies offer pointless incentive shit like free food and beverages and your average idiot literally eats it up. Wow. Great perk of the job! Then you realize you’re getting tasteless, shitty eggs out of a carton that get wrapped up in a stale tortilla alongside rubbery sausage of dubious origin - wash it down with a Pepsi…. Or Franzia one Friday out of the month!

It’s a way to rope people in. Gearbox Software had a cereal bar… yes, a fucking cereal bar… that retarded people went apeshit over and made them really think about applying for a job under Randy Pitchford because they could get cereal from a solenoid.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

The same faggots who want you to use paper straws are complaining it's unfair that they don't throw tons of food every week into the garbage bin.

 

[JosephStalin]

I don't like hitting women. But 100% I wanna spark her out, holy fuck.

Ya, sure am glad to see Elon cleaning house. What a fucking waste of money. Well, the grift is over, and a bunch of turds need to find real jobs.

It was always taken out of your BAS unless you lived outside of the barracks as far as I can remember unless you were at a deployed location.

Ya, depends on several things. Your marital status, your rank, if you live in the barracks or not, if you are part of essential unit messing. One funny thing...officers get less BAS than the enlisted. Wonder why.

 

[Tanner Glass]

Something does not add up with the numbers, even if it is pricy food and expensive chefs. Someone at HQ probably had his fingers in the cookie jar. With these wasteful companies, a lot of money flows out unnoticed, and it is not just through sinecures for entitled upper class bums. Those can be serious revenue streams if nobody does an audit.

Waste and overhead.

The point is that the food would be pretty expensive (~$30-$60 per person, per day) if everyone eats all the food every day. Elon's point is the food is even more expensive when you're making 7,500 portions for at most 1,500 people (and then throwing 6,000 portions directly in the garbage). They were preparing 5 times the amount of meals they actually needed (god forbid they run out) and there was a person who allegedly had this as their entire job - apparently the person couldn't be bothered inside of ~2 years to reevaluate the food amounts (even though they could have saved the company ~9 million dollars a year, each year, for two years).

 

[That Chris Guy]

Good thing this massive amount of waste has been ended for good. I worked in the hospitality industry for a brief spell, and the restaurants there would throw out food that wasn't eaten instead of being conservative and serving it as leftovers. Hell, they could've just walked down two blocks and there would've been plenty of vagrants who would eat dirty serviettes if given the opportunity.

As for the rags that are bemoaning this loss, it's just a symptom of the tech industry being full of immature, pampered assholes who never experience any of the hardships they pretend to champion. The whole GamerGate debacle had the tech industry and associated media crying over the thought of being held responsible for journalistic integrity, and now they're crying over being expected to do an honest day's work like the rest of the serfdom.