Twitter owes three months' rent to its Boulder landlord, and a judge has signed off on evicting the tech giant from its office there.
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Musk: People who WFH are lazy and should come back to the office
Musk: …but I aint paying the rent on that office!
I wish I had more to add to this conversation, but for now this will have to suffice: 😂
Also consider “💩”. Musk is quite fond of this one, I’m told.
I await the day a sheriff shows up at one of their offices to confiscate some property to settle debts.
Pathetic. How anyone can deal or invest with “businessmen” like Trump and Musk who mainly grift, steal, lie and don‘t even pay their debts—no clue!
The irony of the man choosing to use the name Tesla when he’s just another Edison.
Actually, even that is probably giving him too much credit…
Elon said “come back to the office” girl what office???
Can’t believe they laid their own landlord off.
Is there anything Twitter is paying for???
They’re paying in spades for Elon fucking everything up.
Twitter is dying, but not some very spectacular death of the service stopping to work altogether in one day, but a slow, painful one.
Its the same death as most social websites. They just sorta fade from the minds of the public until its just a husk with 10 daily users.
Yeah even Digg still exists as a husk of its former self.
Didn’t Elon wante to end remote work? Seems like he needs to make up is mind…
Naah. This is (in his POV) excelent. He can just fire an e-mail at 3:00AM saying: “Everyone from Boulder will have to check in to the SF office by tomorrow. If you fail to do so, I’ll assume you abandoned work and is no longer employed at Twitter”.
What a POS…
Thankfully the laws aren’t always super dumb and take into account pretext. For example, if he said “If you don’t show up to work in San Francisco then I will take that as your resignation.” then it would be what’s called a constructive dismissal. It is in fact a termination, because the demands are so unreasonable precisely in order to get employees to quit. So he’d still be on the hook for any severance owed, etc
He’s being sued left and right for… *checks notes… not paying severance. So I’m not so sure “on the hook for severance” means much either.
Twitter has an office in Boulder? Makes sense I thought Elon was living under a rock.
Ba dum tss! For real though, how did he think skipping rent was going to be ok?
It’s one way companies cancel leases and may be the best way to break a lease depending on how it’s written. Then they get evicted and the lease is cancelled.
Look at San Francisco and all the companies just walking away from buildings while stopping any payments to said leases and loans. It’s not that uncommon.
What kind of damages would breaking a lease create compared to not paying rent and getting evicted after months? Why wouldn’t you still be in the hook for breaking a lease?
WFH 4eva