Musk actually buys Twitter.

[DarthOne]

It is technically because you never see it AT all. There fore free.

But if you’d opted out or whatever you would have seen that money. Therefore the food was not free.

 

[Zachowon]

But if you’d opted out or whatever you would have seen that money. Therefore the food was not free.

You don't opt out.
Unless you are married or E-6 or out of tje barracks.

 

[The Whispering Monk]

But if you’d opted out or whatever you would have seen that money. Therefore the food was not free.

If you're in the barracks, you don't get to opt out of that.

 

[Sobek]

There is the slight , tiny issue that THE ARMY IS NOWHERE CLOSE TO TWITTER!

You get "free lunch" cause you are expected to stay in the barracks all day pretty much. You are fed because you are being used as a body for the army, they are constantly moving you and your equipament. You are a part of the entire machine of the military, so they need to account for that.

Twitter isn't. It's a regular IT company.

Not to mention the issue isn't just the fact Twats get free food, they get posh food and extremely over the top shit and snacks that have no place being a daily occurrence on the job.

 

[Rocinante]

Who cares if they get food? As stated, this is to attract workers. Who cares if its top tier fancy food? If the company can afford it, they can do as they please.

For fucks sake, how is a board of right wingers complaining about private companies making their own financial decisions, spending their own money, and deciding that providing amenities will attract more workers?

The funny part here is twitter folk acting like revoking this is literally starving people.

 

[bintananth]

I work at a arcade with a bar and grill the best I get is a discount. (Which is par for the course) for these kids I'ma play the world's smallest violin. 🎻🎻🎻

Edit: people have paid for my meal's before but that's not standard issue.

I work for an engineering firm. He're the free meals we get:
- lunch meetings
- the office Christmas party
- there's deadline and a bunch of people are staying late
- when you're out of town on business you get a per diem

Practically everything else is on you.

Smallest violins from me as well.

 

[Bear Ribs]

Yeah, there's nothing unusual in a company giving food to its employees. I had a previous job that kept a kitchen loaded with snacks for the workers to eat whenever, not full lunches but still it was just a way to attract better-quality talent.

Google actually has a ludicrous array of benefits ranging from massages to food to fitness centers in their offices. Actually, I've seen a few companies with exercise programs and fitness for workers, it's quite common in California.

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The big question is if this will drive away talent that Elon actually needs. If other big tech companies are offering all these incentives and he's not, he'll either have to pony up more dough, which as noted is more expensive because California tech workers overvalue things like free lunches, or he won't be able to attract as good a quality of employee as his competitors. But ultimately it's his decision and I presume he's done a lot more research on it than I have.

 

[Robovski]

I don't care. Elon said meals were running at $400 because hardly anyone was there to eat them, so the kitchen staff are there, the rest of the workers weren't. He decided to not offer free lunch anymore? Fine with me, it's perfectly normal to not offer it and it is his business now. If I had been getting that benefit and it was being taken away I could see being upset but Twitter is losing money and things need to turn around.

 

[Typhonis]

I can confirm that a certain company whose name starts with G has free food for the employees. The honestly had lobster tails in the cafeteria one day and one of the break areas has booze in it.

 

[DarthOne]

 

[ShadowArxxy]

I'd rather get paid more than have "free" food provided by the company, because then I am sure I will be getting food I like and will for sure eat. Plus, just on general principal.

You're certainly entitled to your own opinion, but apparently, the majority of tech workers don't agree with you and the companies are going to do what works.

 

[ShadowArxxy]

In any case, I think this whole "blue check mark" thing is clearly a huge misstep by Musk. He was probably not wrong that Twitter needs a "premium account" revenue stream, but entangling premium accounts with verified accounts was a complete self-own. Especially when he then got super mad about account impersonation -- dude, the ENTIRE POINT of account verification was to cut down on that some, what did you think was going to happen when you let people buy verification status without actually being verified?

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

Isn't that some kind of crime? Like, pinning a crime on an innocent party?

 

[LordsFire]

In any case, I think this whole "blue check mark" thing is clearly a huge misstep by Musk. He was probably not wrong that Twitter needs a "premium account" revenue stream, but entangling premium accounts with verified accounts was a complete self-own. Especially when he then got super mad about account impersonation -- dude, the ENTIRE POINT of account verification was to cut down on that some, what did you think was going to happen when you let people buy verification status without actually being verified?

Two things:

1. The current problem is not the concept, it's the application. It is clearly too easy to become verified, thus all the fraudulent accounts.

2. Destroying the socially-elite status of 'blue checkmark mafia' is a good thing.

 

[Terthna]

Is there some rule you imagine that jobs *can't* provide quality of life anemities as part of what draws people to work there? Keep in mind that the big tech workplaces *are* large campuses on par with any college, and that these are not things provided out of "charity", but cold-blooded calculation that they're able to attract and retain better talent, push them harder, and get more out of them by providing such.

No; but neither is there a rule that says they have to. Particularly when company is unprofitable, and the employees spend more of their time on the clock being activists than doing their jobs.

 

[DarthOne]

Isn't that some kind of crime? Like, pinning a crime on an innocent party?

Yeah. Wanna be they get away with it anyway?

(Sorry, I’m feeling remarkably cynical this morning)

 

[Rocinante]

Called it.

Didn't take long for the left to go from "it's a private platform" to "government must control it," once Musk bought it.

 

[DarthOne]

Called it.

Didn't take long for the left to go from "it's a private platform" to "government must control it," once Musk bought it.

Funny how that happens.

 

[PsihoKekec]

The Email Caste's Last Stand

Yet there is another aspect of the Musk takeover that has little to do with free speech or even ideology—although it has a great deal to do with the class interests of Big Tech censors. As a recession looms, Silicon Valley is shedding the non-essential workers it acquired when unlimited venture funding made turning a profit an afterthought. Musk happens to have taken the helm at Twitter just as this reality is asserting itself. In this sense, the revolt against his leadership is the last stand of a cohort of activist hangers-on who are about to find themselves unemployed.

Musk paid $44 billion to acquire Twitter, and all indications are that the platform isn’t worth anything close to that. Once he got access to the company’s finances, the Tesla boss realized it was losing millions of dollars every day, and that many of its employees weren’t doing much work at all. So he proceeded to do what most executives would do in this situation: He laid off some of his workers.

“Tech companies ran off the cliff long ago.”
The abrupt firing of thousands of employees solicited a new wave of outrage from Musk’s haters. But even if you remove him from the equation, Twitter couldn’t have gone much longer without massive layoffs. The same thing is happening across Silicon Valley. Last week, the online-payments company Stripe announced it would cut 14 percent of its workforce, as did the rideshare giant Lyft; Facebook parent company Meta looks poised to do the same. Like Wile E. Coyote, tech companies ran off the cliff long ago; only now is economic gravity starting to assert itself.

In short, Musk taking the axe to the Twatter ''workforce'' is but a symptom of the coming times. In times of endless credit the social media companies were a safe depository for spoiled brats of professional managerial class (PMC), with their useless diplomas. But endless credit is coming to an end and among the other measures, companies will seek to shed the useless hanger ons.

 

[Arch Dornan]

The Email Caste's Last Stand



In short, Musk taking the axe to the Twatter ''workforce'' is but a symptom of the coming times. In times of endless credit the social media companies were a safe depository for spoiled brats of professional managerial class (PMC), with their useless diplomas. But endless credit is coming to an end and among the other measures, companies will seek to shed the useless hanger ons.

Like the dotcom bust?