The office closure marks the end of an era for the site formerly known as Twitter.
  • Ledivin@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    They probably got evicted – Musk constantly threatens to not pay rent… who knows, maybe he actually followed through.

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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      11 months ago

      Its landlord, SRI Nine Market Square, in early 2023 filed a suit against X for more than $3 million in unpaid rent. SRI Nine Market sought to extend Twitter’s line of credit to $10 million as an assurance that future rent would be paid. Other vendors also have sued X for failing to pay its bills. But in January of this year, SRI Nine Market dropped the case, Reuters reported. It’s unclear why.

      Sounds like he did follow through.

  • sudo42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Why is it always Austin, the most liberal, left-wing city in Texas? If they’re trying to get away from “woke”, they should be moving to REAL Texas. Some town nobody’s even heard of.

    They’re posers. They want to look like Texans, but they move to liberal-ville.

    1/2 /s

    • vvvvan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      “You can’t fire me, I quit!”
      “Sir, this is a Wendy’s San Francisco. Please just leave.” “You’ll be hearing from my lawyers!”

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Without paywall: https://archive.ph/xymp1

    TL;DR: They’re moving the SF office to Austin.

    But do read this part:

    The latest update from Yaccarino suggests it’s the San Francisco office, specifically, that is the thorn in X’s side. And it’s an about-face for Musk, who tweeted a year ago that, despite incentives to move out of San Francisco, X would not move its HQ out of the city. “You only know who your real friends are when the chips are down,” he waxed poetically on X. “San Francisco, beautiful San Francisco, though others forsake you, we will always be your friend.”

        • TheHarpyEagle@lemmy.world
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          11 months ago

          To be fair, the tech job market is in a pretty shit position right now. For many people it’s not possible to leave their current job, even if they hate it (ask me how I know).

          • crawancon@lemm.ee
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            11 months ago

            I understand the sentiment, but if they are specifically working at Twitter it’s not due to economic forced conditions.

            they chose to stay after Elon took over and the job market isn’t soooo bad that a year later they could be gone…

        • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 months ago

          For a lot of them, absolutely. Not all though. A lot of tech companies have been cutting back lately, and it’s pretty rough out there for certain roles. I know a lot of people that have been sticking out jobs they hate for a year+ while they interview and try to find something with similar comp.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Employees in San Francisco reportedly will be moved to new locations in the Bay Area, “including the existing office in San Jose and a new engineering focused shared space with [xAI, Musk’s AI startup] in Palo Alto,” the note said. The company’s executive team is said to be working on “transportation options” for staff. X did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment.

    • seaQueue@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Anyone who hasn’t already fled that sinking ship now gets to spend an extra 3-4h per day commuting to work there. I’m sure that’ll be great for talent retention.

  • fubarx@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Twitter moving to mid-market was pretty controversial because of the tax breaks the mayor lavished on them. But a lot of condos went up in the area.

    Wondering if anyone still working at Twitter bought a condo just so they could be within walking distance of work.