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.”

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.

 

[Tanner Glass]

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.

They expressly cannot do that for liability reasons.

If a vagrant gets sick from the food - they have the right to sue the establishment (and have done so many times in the past) for a comical amount of money. The absolute best a restaurant can do (legally) is try and partner with a 3rd party company - and only for "preservable" food. It's a sad state, but restaurants basically have to take extreme steps to cover their own ass legally (throwing out food, locking the trash bins, mixing in chemicals to the food so it can't be eaten, etc) because the lawsuits can be so devastating.

 

[SBG]

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.

Yeah it’s part of why nice cafeterias are the norm at many companies. My city even has an underground mall only operating during the day that’s connected between all the major office buildings. That way you never have to go out on the street downtown.

 

[KiwiFuzz]

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.

 

[AnOminous]

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

Because that's not good enough for these hothouse orchids.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Musk should fact check this employee who probably ignores the cost of maintaining and the salary of the chefs and cleaners.

He did in fact fact check that employee.

 

[NoReturn]

it needs to be organic free-range eggs
or some eggs imitation (that yellow liquid bottle)
don't forget that plant-based food
it will triple in cost
also, add mimosa on tap (maybe)

More than that if you consider that's what it costs to produce (it would be more if they were selling it like a restaurant), but less than that if you assume they eat more than one meal a day there and it might go through crazy accounting where it is a benefit but it's not salary so it's valued weirdly.


Could also be long term contracts with suppliers that they can't shrink on a whim, and the uncertainty of when if ever they'll need to return to full capacity again.


I've heard this rationale applies to other amenities like laundry, gyms and sleep pods.

That's right, sleep pods.

Not because they want you to sleep at work, but because they want it to be real easy to convince you to do stupid late overtime. Worst case scenario, skip your 4 hour commute, sleep at the office! Never go home, you're stuck here now.

The Circle's fictional company has dorms inspired by projects like this, irl.

Its like 4 or 5 stories of a skyscraper in bellevue with parts of the floor cut out to be more like one room.

Didn't they move during rona?

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?

I had a conversation the other day with someone who works in SF. They were "Eat the rich!" and when called out on it said $150,000/year isn't "rich".

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

Have another woman do it. That makes it ok.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

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.

I mean, I would too, but also I would haul my ass to work to use those benefits, unlike the WFH gremlins.

I would also be the asshole who tries to sneak food home in a Tupperware and gets the place shut down for overuse instead of underuse.

Use it or lose it, twittards.

 

[WelfareNiggerQueen]

Screencap from the infamous "red wine on tap" video
View attachment 3867102View attachment 3867096
yeah too many food wasted

They're paying what now for that!!!!! Lmao That's what I make for a lazy day minus the hentai grass

 

[Particle Bored]

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.

Never been to twitter, but I worked a project at the Google campus in Menlo Park, where they also do the "free food" thing, and yeah, these aint free tuna sandwiches in the little triangle plastic box. This is "pick one of today's five international cuisine stations and get a full plate made-to-order, no charge, and enjoy it in our modern-rustic hipster café decor."

 

[That Chris Guy]

They expressly cannot do that for liability reasons.

If a vagrant gets sick from the food - they have the right to sue the establishment (and have done so many times in the past) for a comical amount of money. The absolute best a restaurant can do (legally) is try and partner with a 3rd party company - and only for "preservable" food. It's a sad state, but restaurants basically have to take extreme steps to cover their own ass legally (throwing out food, locking the trash bins, mixing in chemicals to the food so it can't be eaten, etc) because the lawsuits can be so devastating.

Good to know. I guess it's like being afraid to help someone out in an emergency, lest they disapprove of your assistance and sue you, Good Samaritan Law be damned.

 

[Kel1 shi1]

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.

Kitchen staff would have been taking bags of food home every night, not the leftovers but the raw uncooked stuff. If they did that shit at a normal restaurant the owner would have been on them for it. But in corporate world they would have had no oversight.

 

[Stoneheart]

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.

yeah, but you dont need to pay them so well or give them free food...
They should get less pay tab the cleaning staff. Its hard to find good cleaners and they play an important part, unlike most other support staff.

 

[WelfareNiggerQueen]

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.

>The bug people don't know it's cheaper to cook for yourself even getting shitty microwave food is cheaper.

 

[Markass the Worst]

The bigger news story is that twitter was doing this retardation in the first place. Holy shit just make your own lunch like 99.9% of the working population, it's not that fucking hard.

 

[ZehnBoat]

noooo elon, you can't buy twitter, you should use that money to save the world
noooo elon, you can't save the world, you should use this money to feed my lazy ass

 

[Vect]

There's free food and there's free food. Look at that shit. Some poor fucker was making that and is watching a bunch of people cry about their right to not eat it.

I'm doing a cooking course as a side hobby with chefs so French they sneeze minced garlic, and even in the swanky posh-nosh cafe where water is paddle-scooped in the Alps and flown in for $3 USD a bottle we don't get artisanal grub like that.

This isn't a tech company, it's a zoo for the kinds of people who laminate their socks and give their USBs names and personalities.

 

[AnOminous]

I'm doing a cooking course as a side hobby with chefs so French they sneeze minced garlic, and even in the swanky posh-nosh cafe where water is paddle-scooped in the Alps and flown in for $3 USD a bottle we don't get artisanal grub like that.

These fucking worms are people who eat Eggs Benedict for breakfast, avocado toast for lunch, and lobster etouffee for dinner, but couldn't soft boil an egg to save their lives.

Meanwhile they tell coal miners to eat cake.

Against the wall. Learn to code.

 

[Snekposter]

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

Considering the average Twitter employee was a childless single woman who sleeps around or a feckless nu-male? Yeah, you bet they were ordering wine by the keg and not the case.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

How to make a decent breakfast fast by Some sperg on a gossip forum

Step 1: Get rice cooker. Idiot proofs the rice making process somewhat.
Step 1.5: Plug rice cooker in. Do not lick plug.
Step 2: Rinse whatever rice you're using. Skip this step if you don't give a fuck.
Step 3: Put water in rice cooker.
Step 4: Press button.
Step 5: Go play your Switch for 20 or so minutes.
Step 6: Put some rice in a bowl. Add whatever you want to your bowl of rice.
Step 7: Put leftover rice in the fridge. You can have this for breakfast tomorrow.

 

[Alligator Alcatraz]

noooo elon, you can't buy twitter, you should use that money to save the world
noooo elon, you can't save the world, you should use this money to feed my lazy ass

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.