In Twit news: eviction and lawsuits
Jun. 21st, 2023 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneThe Muskbro bought the company in October 2022. Many Twitter employees stayed on for the expected and promised annual bonus that was normally paid out in the first quarter of the year, bypassing job offers for new and better positions.
Care to guess whether or not the bonus was paid?
A class action lawsuit has been filed for non-payment, saying over $5,000,000 is owed to current and former employees.
In other news of the Twitterverse, employees of a Denver-area office building - I think I drove past it once or twice - were EVICTED for rent non-payment. The landlord had access to a slush fund and when rent wasn't paid they accessed it, which activated a legal requirement that Twitter replenish the slush fund. They did not, and the landlord began eviction proceedings, which culminated in the building being vacated earlier this month.
According to the Ars article linked below, there are TWENTY lawsuits against the Mustbrat for nonpayment of various services, including the lease on the HQ in San Fran.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/musk-owned-twitter-stiffed-employees-on-promised-bonuses-class-action-says/
Care to guess whether or not the bonus was paid?
A class action lawsuit has been filed for non-payment, saying over $5,000,000 is owed to current and former employees.
In other news of the Twitterverse, employees of a Denver-area office building - I think I drove past it once or twice - were EVICTED for rent non-payment. The landlord had access to a slush fund and when rent wasn't paid they accessed it, which activated a legal requirement that Twitter replenish the slush fund. They did not, and the landlord began eviction proceedings, which culminated in the building being vacated earlier this month.
According to the Ars article linked below, there are TWENTY lawsuits against the Mustbrat for nonpayment of various services, including the lease on the HQ in San Fran.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/musk-owned-twitter-stiffed-employees-on-promised-bonuses-class-action-says/
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Date: 2023-06-25 02:39 pm (UTC)I'm not surprised that the new CEO is staying on the line of free speech, since that's probably the thing that's bringing in whatever income there is, at least until they can manage to get rid of Elon and get the advertisers back on board.
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Date: 2023-06-25 06:53 pm (UTC)I don't know that they can get rid of Elon: he took it private, technically he (or his creditors) own it. Someone would have to buy it off him, and in its current state, I can't see that happening. He's made it so toxic that it would take an extremely wealthy nutter to take it over, and while there are many of those around, most of the ones wealthy enough are also smart enough to see what a flaming trash heap he's turned it in to and stay well away.