Report: Twitter to close Seattle offices after company stops paying rent

[Kennah]

Source: KIRO 7 (CBS affiliate)

Twitter has reportedly stopped paying rent at its Seattle office and now faces eviction, according to the New York Times.

The Times spoke with people familiar with the matter who said janitorial and security services were cut.

The apparent shutdown of the office coincides with a layoff notice sent in November by the Employment Security Department of Washington State. Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notices are required in Washington when 100 or more employees will be affected by closures or layoffs.

On November 4, a notice affecting 257 Seattle Twitter employees said layoffs would start on January 4.

Read more: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/report-twitter-close-seattle-offices-after-company-stops-paying-rent/3XS5IZW62RHOFFHISLOIY2VWVI/?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1i20_AqroKOXWsfU69P7jRyCYurZyqOO7rtQN_V-XJrDZtipzBjqE6BFs

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Once they stop paying for the server centers, they are done

[ananda]

1. The beginning of the end I guess.

Good riddance.

[KatyaR]

5. Nah, I'm sure EM thinks he can run the place all by himself.

After all, he's a GENIUS, how hard could it be?

[ret5hd]

6. But not from home!!!

He made a rule about coming to the office. Right? Right?

[BumRushDaShow]

2. I guess the term

"cluster fuck" pretty much sums up what is happening to that company.

[Jarqui]

3. Stopping payment of office rent usually doesn't get you off the hook

from the lease/rental agreement financial obligations.

If the landlord was in violation, they would normally get a notice and some time to cure the violation.

Maybe they had a sweetheart handshake deal because they were Twitter ... but that is questionable because most years, Twitter lost hundreds of millions.

[deurbano]

4. I feel feel one of that sociopath's goals is to help undermine the economies of liberal cities

by firing so many workers, not paying rent... etc.. The Twitter building on San Francisco also houses the Golden Gate Regional Center, a state contracted nonprofit that serves people with developmental disabilities, and I wonder if Twitter rent has helped underwrite a less onerous rent for that agency. In other words, I worry about some of the potentially widespread (but not necessarily on the radar) ramifications of the collapse of Twitter as a previously more responsible (comparatively!) corporate player.

[ret5hd]

7. Oh I see...you think he has a plan.

Isn’t that cute.

(I kid, I kid!)

[deurbano]

9. Yeah, that does seem to give him too much credit! But I think he's an agent of chaos,

whether there's a fully thought out plan or not, and he would (at the very least) be quite happy to have that chaos negatively impact the "libs."

[ret5hd]

10. Thanks for taking it in the spirit it was intended.

I was thinking “too snippy?” and then “nah, I’ll apologize later if I have to.”

[erronis]

11. I think you're both onto something here. Chaos is good, as long as the instigator is protected.

Stir the pot and see what happens. Doesn't matter to these oligarchs (unless they fall out of high windows).

The financial penalties are minimal compared to their wealth and potential financial gains. And, if necessary, declare bankruptcy and let the little people pick up the pieces.

[kimbutgar]

8. In the local SF newspaper they said he also wasn't paying rent for the headquarters in SF

But since downtown SF is mostly a ghost town I doubt he will be evicted.

[LiberalFighter]

12. Where will he move headquarters? His mother's basement?

[Kennah]

14. Corcoran

[womanofthehills]

22. Some think he might take Twitter to Austin

Lots of people/companies moving to Austin

[Renew Deal]

13. Many of those people will get scooped up by bigger and better tech companies in Seattle.

Microsoft being the biggest of them all.

[Mawspam2]

15. Twitter also closed the Sacramento server center.

https://www.kcra.com/article/twitter-closes-sacramento-data-center-reports-say/42370983

[NullTuples]

17. Who needs redundancy &/or capacity when it comes to servers, right?

[NullTuples]

16. Perhaps he's poisoning the company with debt so nobody will want to buy it after it fails.

(I still say he & his pro-fascist/dictator/monarchy investors bought it to destroy it)

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. Musk emulating Deadbeat Donny

Pay your fucking bills Eloon.

[SouthernDem4ever]

19. Musk is thinking of relocating twitter to the moon or possibly mars

the rent is cheaper there.

[dembotoz]

20. to break a lease is not a popular thing for a business to do

do you trust a business that can not be trusted to pay their bills?

why i never understood why small businesses would do business with trump.
If there is a risk of not getting paid you front end the terms to protect yourself.

may turn out that the best business deal you can make with either trump or eloon is to walk away and say no thank you.

let someone else get screwed

[wolfie001]

21. The wealthy do not like the poors debating US politics.....

That's how I interpret this whole 'twitter' clusterfuck.

[Kennah]

23. What you said

[wolfie001]

24. Cheers!!!

Happy New Year!