Elon Reportedly Wants His Most 'Hardcore' Tweeps to Sleep in Beds at Twitter HQ

[Javaman]

https://gizmodo.com/twitter-beds-tweeps-elon-musk-beds-hardcore-1849858059

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Then you walk though the doors to your office and find that your boss has started putting spartan bedrooms in the office space, as if to remind you “this is now your life.” According to a report from Forbes, this is exactly what Twitter employees encountered Monday at the company’s San Francisco headquarters. Forbes reported based on leaked photographs that the bedrooms came with unmade mattresses, orange carpeting, “drab” curtains and some desk chairs and monitors.

Based on the report alone, it’s hard to tell how many rooms were converted into bedrooms in total, but the employee Forbes talked to said there were now “four to eight per floor.” Another anonymous source reported the beds were on a largely empty floor of the San Fran office, and that it could be an amenity for employees who were already putting in late hours.

Though, just like many employees dragging their bodies into work on a Monday might think, one employee also told Forbes that the beds at least looked “comfortable.”

Twitter’s new owner has a strange fascination with getting workers to spend practically all their time at their workplace. Earlier this year, Musk’s other big company Tesla had reportedly told workers at its Shanghai, China factory they would need to sleep at work to continue production during lockdowns amidst the covid pandemic. The company reportedly brought out sleeping bags and mattresses for them to sleep on the factory floor. Earlier in November, there were more reports of Twitter employees using sleeping bags inside the office after working late.

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it appears as if musky wants to turn twitter into the American version of Foxconn.

[Initech]

1. Why am I getting Jim Jones vibes from this?

[iemanja]

2. Aren't there any labor laws covering this?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. Yes. There's a lot of fine print.

Report a Labor Law Violation

[RockRaven]

3. They've already been reported to the city's building inspectors for converting conference rooms

to bedrooms, which is a problem for the company because the building is not approved for residential occupancy. We shall see if the city has any teeth or not.

[Mosby]

23. Kinda ironic.

The media is more concerned about people sleeping in a building than the people sleeping on the street in front of it. I'm sure the city authorities in SF will deal with this pressing issue of building code enforcement, the homeless, not so much.

[Johnny2X2X]

4. Why would anyone do that for him?

What's in it for them? Is he giving them a piece of the company? Tripling their salaries? Giving them control over their own IP?

When you have a startup and get buy in from a small group of people while tying the companies success to their success, you can get this type of commitment. The early days of an endless number of tech startups have stories of people sleeping at the office to get the new and exciting technology working. But as far as I can tell, these are just regular workers who have no stake in Twitter's success outside their own salaries. Why would a single one of them go to these ends, what's in it for them?

I truly believe Musk is playing with fire here, he's ruining lives and pushing good people past their breaking points. One of them is going to get pushed too far and lash out physically at Musk, maybe with a weapon.

[Yavin4]

11. The good people with options have long since left.

What's there now are probably people on work visas or people who were not that good but see this as a opportunity to move up the ladder.

Folks invest themselves emotionally into their jobs. Their entire identity is wrapped up in who they work for. They gladly take Musk's abuse because one day they will be able to abuse the next generation of employees.

Most of those that are still there are just as sick as Musk.

[Disaffected]

5. Hey Elon,

don't forget the jump nets and, to be extra safe, lock the roof access doors.

[CrispyQ]

6. Another story said they were queen sized beds.

Wondering if they get to choose their bedmate or if that's done for them? What if you don't want to sleep in the same bed with someone else? JFC, even the Chinese build proper dormitories for their employees & don't make them share a bed with coworkers.

[Wahyee]

7. That is one warped dude /nt

[Irish_Dem]

8. Hardcore + Mattresses ... WTF?

[Takket]

9. I feel bad for all the people so desperate for a pay check

That they can’t tell this guy to go fuck himself.

[MiniMe]

10. What is a Tweep?

A Tweet?

[Kid Berwyn]

19. When Twerps Tweet

They Tweep.

[tanyev]

13. Did Elon hire a service to clean the rooms and launder bedding?

I’m gonna guess no and that those rooms are going to get skanky pretty fast.

[Eugene]

14. Following the model of Tesla factories in China.

Musk openly complained that Americans don't work hard enough. He held his Tesla plants up as an example to emulate, except the Chinese workers sleep on the floor.

[DBoon]

15. he wants to monitor them while asleep

to make sure they are dreaming of the greatness of Musk

[Javaman]

16. or not sleeping to much when they could be working. nt

[ZonkerHarris]

17. This is a violation of both labor and zoning laws

[Midnight Writer]

18. Is he issuing MyPillows?

[ProfessorGAC]

20. Why Not?

There's plenty of aging, unsold inventory.

[dalton99a]

21. The apartheid man-child's newest sweatshop

[bluesbassman]

22. Guessing he learned from his old man.

Those emerald mine slaves probably slept in the pits too.

[DET]

24. Well...

It beats sleeping at their desks, which is the alternative. Companies have no moral compass when there is a deadline to meet or a dollar to be made.

[sarcasmo]

25. Work camp, Elon learned from his Daddy.

[clutterbox1830]

26. I don't understand why would anyone want to work there.

unless you are unfortunately there for your work visa, why torture yourself.

I can see naïve 20s year old staying since they don't know any better and have no ambition to find a new job, but it is not worth it.

[Hekate]

27. Dystopia here we come. I hope zoning laws bite him in his pasty butt -- however cities & states...

… are accustomed to kowtowing to the mightiness of his billions and promises of local jobs. He’s made it clear he will push the boundaries of law and decency ever-further until he is stopped.

Orange rugs? Did someone find an abandoned warehouse of old shag carpets? Ewww.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

28. Elon Musk is a nut case