San Francisco Is Investigating The Bedrooms Elon Musk Installed At Twitter For Possible Code Violati

[Temeret]

Source: Forbes

San Francisco’s Department of Building Inspection is investigating a complaint that Twitter CEO Elon Musk has converted office space at the company’s headquarters into bedrooms for employees, following a Forbes report.

“We need to make sure the building is being used as intended,” said Patrick Hannan, the communications director for the department, in a statement. “There are different building code requirements for residential buildings, including those being used for short-term stays.”

Forbes reported Monday that Twitter employees arriving to work that day had been surprised by the rooms, which feature what appear to be queen-sized mattresses. An image shared with Forbes showed a room that looked like it had been converted from a conference room, based on two large telepresence monitors on the wall. The conference table had been replaced with an unmade mattress.

“It’s not a good look,” one source who requested anonymity for fear of reprisal told Forbes. “It’s yet another unspoken sign of disrespect. There is no discussion. Just like, beds showed up.”

Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/katharineschwab/2022/12/06/elon-musk-twitter-bedrooms-san-francisco-investigation/?sh=7fca6ea61af1

[dutch777]

1. Here come the Tinder dates to Twitter HQ! I am sure anyone with an option has left Twitter employ.

Just probably the people on work visas or trapped due to needing ongoing health insurance or some other money issue staying. Maybe a few masochists or folks that want to help set the scuttling charges.

[tanyev]

2. Just a bare mattress lying on the floor?

Twitter offices are soon going to look like a giant crack house at this rate.

[Hotler]

11. Brass poles coming soon. nt

[highplainsdem]

3. Musk's followers are shrieking that this is another example of their

hero being persecuted by government.

[SergeStorms]

18. Seriously?

I'm not a Twitter watcher, so I won't verify this myself. It certainly wouldn't surprise me that much.

[Ford_Prefect]

4. Upholstering cube-land is one more example of how badly Eloon underestimated

what twitter is and needs to be. Or else it is exactly what he wanted it to be: a prison for the Tweeps who must bend to his vision 24/7 or else. His enormous insecurity is telling.

I have worked for several bosses who felt they needed this level of commitment from their staff. You never get credit for what you've done. You sacrifice far more than you can get in return. TLG is one of those. Constant demands of personal loyalty work only in one direction and aren't worth the paper they're not written on. Bosses like this have a very short memory for anything you accomplish and always ask why more wasn't done to make it better. It is a recipe for burnout and depression.

If Eloon really has a coherent vision for Twitter 2.0 he's done little to plan for it other than performance goals. That's a sign of a really, really BAD executive who cannot prioritize and will not accept the needs or views of others working with him.

[Irish_Dem]

8. For bosses like this, people are expendable. They burn out employees and then hire new ones.

It is a sad situation for employees.

[Irish_Dem]

5. What's the real purpose of the mattresses?

A man who demands total control over employees, has zero self control, acts out his fantasies every day, and posts sexually inappropriate public comments. And now is putting mattresses in offices.

[Farmer-Rick]

19. Aha, I figured it out

He's doing pornos on the side, with the Twitter employees, for extra cash. See Musk does believe in extra perks on the job.

[Irish_Dem]

20. He is entirely capable of doing what you describe. :(

[Farmer-Rick]

22. I know..

This is the sad state of feudalism in the workplace.

[Irish_Dem]

23. Right. When a boss puts a mattress in your office, it is a hostile work environment.

It is a signal that you will not be allowed to leave at the end of the day.
And forced to work through the night.

And women are going to go WTF. No way a male boss is going to put a mattress in my office.

[jmowreader]

33. Morale

You work at Twitter. You have a significant other. Musk hires that person too. If you need a little stress relief, the two of you head off to the barracks for a 30-minute sex break.

Only problem is, Musk has a sound level meter and posts the decibel level of the moaning to the internal website.

[Irish_Dem]

34. Nothing Musk does would surprise me at this point.

[IronLionZion]

6. Maybe workers on visas are not actually stealing jobs from Americans

"nobody wants to work anymore" so no point going home, or even having a home, right?

[Lonestarblue]

7. What Musk is doing to Twitter employees tells us we need some new labor laws.

No employer should be able to expect employees to work 100+ hours a week. Companies have been violating the working hours of employees for decades, and we need some new protections since either the old ones don’t work or aren’t being enforced. I worked in corporate world most of my career, and often worked 80+ hours per week, not because I wanted to but because the company refused to hire enough staff and simply expected existing staff to do the jobs of two people. As a manager, I was exempt from overtime, and corporations have used the exempt designation for many employees who are not true managers to force longer hours and no overtime. Wage theft is a huge issue among US companies. Why does Congress never seem to address this?

[area51]

9. +1 n/t

[Farmer-Rick]

21. The fact that our "democratic" legislature believed workers should Not get Sick Leave

Tells you Americans are living in a full on Oligarchy. Nobody but the filthy rich would think Sick Leave is wrong.....think about it.

These are the same people who wanted 8 year olds to be factory workers. These are the same people who said Factories were made for children and children were made for factories. See even back then they knew how to manipulate propaganda.

[CrispyQ]

10. Queen size?

So they're gonna be sleeping with someone else? Do they get to choose their bedmate?

Even the Chinese build dormitories for their employees who live on site.

[AZLD4Candidate]

12. They are actually warm, have wifi, and are pretty big.

My FiL is a construction engineer and had to stay in one for a project until he got his management apartment. We visited him.

It was rather enjoyable, albeit just a studio with a bathroom.

[truthisfreedom]

13. He's lost it.

[TNNurse]

15. You sure he ever had it???

[Mr. Sparkle]

14. Maybe he opened an airbnb to make a bit of cash on the side.

[carpetbagger]

17. I'd sleep there to stay in SF for $8. Nt

[TNNurse]

16. As they say in my home state of GA who elected Warnock last night!!!

He may be smart but "he does not have a lick of sense".

[IbogaProject]

24. Sexual Harassment

No lock on that door. Why queen size? This amounts to what a lawyer should call sexual harassment. I hope some employees grab lots of Mr Musk's money.

And on other points we need to start agitating for workplace reforms. The Mananagement no overtime loophole needs to go. Annual Salary is for 2,000 hours maximum. After that the OT should be at time and a half extra I bet corporate America will only pay that for the best and brightest. Sick leave needs to be mandatory too. We need to look at beginning to reduce full time and eventually cap overtime to a max. The only exception should be owners no salaried employee should be forced to work beyond a maximum per week. We need to look at how much excess labor we have and see if we can transition to a fuller employment having everyone work less. This would boost the economy by having more consumption.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

25. For my part I've had days at work where I'd have loved a bed in the office

To take a nap during lunch break.

But I suspect that's not what those are for when Elon is providing them.

[twodogsbarking]

26. Seems like he is imprisoning them.

[Joinfortmill]

27. Another f*cked up billionaire. Tax him

[turbinetree]

28. This is what you call a sweat shop....

and there are laws on the books about this crap.....and there are laws on the books about hours per day of working on the job....and the are laws on the books about health and safety....

[JudyM]

29. Not The Onion?

The new normal is not at all normal.

[Mr.Bill]

30. Do they have to report the value of the lodging

as income?

[Demobrat]

31. What about showers!

Are they supposed to stay at work for days at a time without showers?

[Kennah]

32. What are the odds they find a BDSM dungeon?