Posted on 12/12/2022 5:56:49 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Holiday shopping could extend another month for Twitter's biggest fans. In mid-January, the social media giant will auction off some of the surplus office items at its San Francisco, California, headquarters — including statues, kitchen items, furniture and more.
Along with standard office furniture, the auction will include some more advanced technology, such as smart TVs, mobile media centers and digital whiteboards, as well as commercial kitchen supplies, including ice machines, a heavy-duty griddle and espresso machines.
Some of the most unique items available, however, represent Twitter itself – a more than 3-foot tall Twitter bird statue and a massive 6-foot "@" sculpture planter that currently has artificial plants that can be replaced with live ones.
The auction sale, hosted by Heritage Global Partners, will run from January 17 at 7 a.m. PT to January 18 to 10 a.m. PT with opening bids ranging from $25 to $50.
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Sounds like the cleanup before the departure to Texas.
Yep, heading down to Austin to help finish off Texas.
I don’t know. They converted some offices to bedrooms.
One step at a time. Twitter first needs to stabilize its new codebase and workforce. The twitter HQ is probably hugely expensive and now a largely unnecessary liability. Cleaning up office space and cancelling what lease spaces that are possible to cancel is good business.
Packing up and moving the workforce to another state means moving families, pulling kids from schools, disrupting work efforts, securing and kitting up new workspaces, mountains of legal paperwork, turning off and turning on heaps of equipment and transitioning all sorts of associated infrastructure.
If anything, it might make a lot of sense to stay in Silicon Valley for the next few years. If Twitter is on the vanguard of a culling of wasteful tech spending, the prices of office space, real estate, etc... are going to drop like a rock, and the pool of talent in the area is going to have some new fish swimming in it.
Obviously, not unbiased reporters as they are doing all they can to make this sound like Musk is doing the wrong thing. I totally disagree. First, given the price of a studio apartment in any major city in CA, a cheap place to sleep might be welcomed. The reporters said the employees were surprise, but none said they didn’t like it. Second, with the employee bloat at Twitter, layoffs were bound to occur. Third, other things being equal, you fire those who don’t agree with the direction you’re taking the company. Obviously, these three twits have no business experience and think that companies exist to the benefit of the employees.
Actually, I believe they were conference rooms. 🙂
Knowing how the previous workforce was willing to drive the company into the gutter in order to further their political agenda, Elon Musk would be better off relocating and drawing from a new talent pool.
Right. I oopsed.
As for relocation: first, he has to establish offices in other locations. Texas was mentioned. So was Japan. He doesn't have to move people wholesale; Musk can let the individuals decide if and when they want to move, and costs would be shared between Twitter and the employee. When the California staff gets small enough, Musk (or whoever is CEO) can close the original offices for good.
Leaving California is easier for some than for others. The benefits for people with fewer roots is the cost of living could be significantly lower, and closet conservatives would be happer in the new location.
Other than exposing their crimes, that is. 🙂
While not a big fan of Elongated Musk, he's not a good guy, I do welcome his expose currently taking place, and watching the left melt down in real time, LOL.
This keeps Twitter in the news. When that big @ goes for $10,000, that will be another story.
My opening bid - $25 - for both. Must include foliage.
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