The City Of San Francisco Is Investigating The Bedrooms In Twitter’s Offices
Now that TIME Magazine has done the right thing by NOT naming ghost-faced douchebag Elon Musk as their Person of the Year, the city of San Francisco is knocking on his door to check out a few bedrooms he had installed at Twitter‘s headquarters. On paper, it seems like a good thing; a place where tired employees can rest while their misguided master puts the whip down for a few seconds. But considering this is Elon we’re talking about, those rooms probably have timers that allow five-minute naps during a twenty-hour workday. And the Department of Building Inspection needs to investigate whether or not these rooms are up to code.
The New York Post reports Elon must think his last name is Hilton because he has a number of “bedrooms” set up at Twitter headquarters that feature the bare necessities; a bed and a nightstand. These rooms are supposed to give employees a break from work, but do you know where the real unwinding happens? AT HOME! Elon, you get no passes for allowing a quick nap before working your employees to the brink of madness. One Twitter worker, Esther Crawford, replied to a tweet giving a sneak peek into Elon’s impromptu workplace bed and breakfast, and by the looks of it, there’s no turn-down service, and the only cookies you get upon check-in are stale and taste like shattered dreams.
When your team is pushing round the clock to make deadlines sometimes you #SleepWhereYouWork https://t.co/UBGKYPilbD
— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) November 2, 2022
Esther don’t let that demon gaslight you into thinking this is cool. It’s not. And San Francisco’s DBI realizes that throwing a bunch of cheap beds inside an office building doesn’t make it a hotel. Especially considering he never discussed it with his employees before turning those spaces into “bedrooms.”
NEW: The BBC has obtained pictures of inside Twitter – rooms that have been converted into bedrooms – for staff to sleep in.
The city of San Francisco is investigating as it's a commercial building. pic.twitter.com/Y4vKxZXQhB
— James Clayton (@JamesClayton5) December 7, 2022
A representative for San Francisco’s Department of Building Inspection said officials needed “to make sure the building is being used as intended.”
“There are different building code requirements for residential buildings, including those being used for short-term stays,” department spokesperson Patrick Hannan said in a statement. “Everyone in San Francisco deserves a safe place to live, work, play and sleep, and no one is above the law.”
Forbes…said they were “sleeping quarters reminiscent of sad hotel rooms,” with “unmade mattresses, drab curtains and giant conference-room telepresence monitors.”
We basically know that Elon is on a constant mission to make sure Twitter burns to the ground, and Design On A Dime inspired living quarters will probably be another nail in the coffin for our favorite blue bird. But what was Elon’s response to these claims? He did what all rich white men who lack compassion do: Divert! Elon kicked it back to San Francisco mayor London Breed‘s lack of investigation into the growing fentanyl problem ravaging the city.
So city of SF attacks companies providing beds for tired employees instead of making sure kids are safe from fentanyl. Where are your priorities @LondonBreed!?https://t.co/M7QJWP7u0N
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 6, 2022
I hope Elon has someone on staff to help remove the splinters from his knuckles with this bottom of the barrel response because there’s an entirely different task force handling that issue. YOUR issue (among many others) is providing subpar living conditions for employees already experiencing a toxic work environment. Because if this is your sad attempt of trying to get into the hotel game I can safely say you’ve failed tremendously at that endeavor.
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