After Elon Musk, the spiritual Guru of the free speech movement bought Twitter he found many staff members were homeless because of the rising cost of owning a home in California, and out of his goodwill gesture, he allowed employees to take up residence in the office. May makeshift bedrooms and bathrooms using cardboard boxes were made to accommodate thousands of Twitter staff. The only criterion for the free housing was the employee had to put in at least twelve hours of productive work per day. Mr. Musk had special screen monitoring and hourly status reports installed on the Twitter-owned computers to ensure employees were actually working and not just browsing Facebook, Twitter, or other social media.
Many staff members were unhappy when Mr. Musk killed all the cleaning/custodial contract and made Twitter staff vacuum clean, polish brass, remove bathroom trash, and clean Toilet bowls and urinals. Mr. Gunjan Pandey, a senior Systems Architect, was very vocal about his discomfort with this work arrangement “I am a Brahmin by caste and it goes against my religion to do bathroom duties. This week I have mopped the stairs and I am afraid they may have me clean the lady’s toilet and that’s where I draw the line”.
Similarly, Mr. Ahmed Ahmed who is a Director of Marketing also voiced his displeasure. “When I was told free housing I jumped onboard but now I have moved in here with my parents, in laws, brother and his family just to found out it is immediate family only which is basically wife and not even my own kids. Essentially Mr. Musk has redefined what “Immediate Family” means.
However, beginning this year there was a plot twist as the City zoning officials came in for an unwelcomed inspection and they cited Twitter for over three thousand safety, accessibility violations that brought Twitter operation to screeching halt. The inspection became a chaos as Elon Musk encouraged staff members to drop poop bombs on the city official to deter them from their inspection. “We have been pooping in grocery bags and then having them carried out of the building with the mail and shredder bin and we essentially dropped these bags on the head of the City folks like rain and they called called Hazmat. It was like shit hit the fan kinda situation” said Ms. Sushmita Rao, personal secretary to the CEO Mr. Musk.
Mr. Musk has deleted the official Twitter page of the City of San Francisco out of retaliation and posted a tweet referring to the Mayor, Ms. London Breed “Who is the boss now bi*ch”.
