San Francisco Investigates Twitter for Musk’s Ugly Motel-Style In-Office Bedrooms

The world’s richest man and Twitter proprietor Elon Musk is clearly miffed at the concept that San Francisco metropolis officers would dare query him attempting to make the corporate HQ into an unpleasant, soul-crushing motel for all the staff he’s exhausting.

The San Francisco Chronicle first reported Tuesday that metropolis officers had been investigating a criticism filed with town’s 311 reporting service. Officials replied to the criticism despatched, paradoxically, via Twitter that town’s Department of Building Inspection was trying into whether or not the corporate was violating metropolis zoning codes with its in-office bedrooms. That metropolis division confirmed with the Chronicle it was trying to conduct a website inspection at the Twitter headquarters.

A division spokesperson instructed reporters “There are different building code requirements for residential buildings, including those being used for short-term stays.”

Musk tweeted out an indignant message geared toward metropolis officers Tuesday, miffed that San Francisco wished to “attack” his firm for “providing beds for tired employees.” He tried to name out San Francisco Mayor London Breed for not prioritizing “making sure kids are safe from fentanyl,” although such an misguided remark went unanswered by the mayor’s workplace.

James Clayton of BBC North America tweeted images of what he claimed was the transformed bedrooms inside Twitter. These pics appear to affirm earlier studies from Forbes that claimed Musk had a number of unused convention rooms that had been vacated after mass layoffs and had them transformed into bedrooms.

One of these photos reveals the ugly, vibrant orange carpeting and big conference-style screens hanging on the wall famous by Forbes’ unique reporting. They additionally reveal a small, token fleece blanket tucked underneath a mattress desk and what looks like wrapped, complimentary slippers you may discover in a 3 star resort room. That one room additionally included a big wardrobe, and one other movies reveals that the brand new Twitter management had put in a washer in what first seems to be an previous utility room, as evidenced by the massive flooring sink within the nook.

Other photos appear to point out a way more rag-tag working house, with couches being transformed into somewhat uncomfortable-looking beds huddled subsequent to working desks. It’s unclear who could possibly be utilizing the queen mattress and who would get the couches. Previous studies famous that 4 to eight rooms per flooring had been geared up with these beds.

Musk himself has beforehand claimed in a deleted tweet that he’s sleeping on the headquarters, although in case you actually imagine one of many world’s richest males is spending all his nights at a run down workplace constructing then I’ve a cool new resort venture I’m trying to do at 1355 Market St. in downtown San Fran you could be all in favour of.

Musk has put an finish to Twitter’s do business from home coverage, that means extra staff are being pressured to spend time within the workplace. He has beforehand been described by ex-employees at Tesla as an extreme micromanager, and he lately gave all these tweeps who survived layoffs an ultimatum: both work longer and tougher, or else hit the highway.

Although some Twitter customers noticed these facilities as in some way higher than what they’ve used to sleep in their very own workplaces, in actuality it shows the shift in tradition occurring at Twitter, the place Musk frequently calls for a “hardcore” angle from his subordinates. These facilities don’t a lot incentivize arduous work as function a reminder they’re anticipated to place extra hours into their job, even when meaning a lack of privateness or consolation.