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Elon Musk’s X Is Leaving San Francisco
(www.wired.com)
Congratulations SF
Austin doesn't want him either.
I wouldn’t be so sure. There’s a lot of Elon stans here.
There's not as many as you'd think, it's just they're all so loud and every single one of them has an eyesore of a cybertruck. It's like confirmation bias.
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They probably got evicted -- Musk constantly threatens to not pay rent... who knows, maybe he actually followed through.
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.
Elon should leave Earth
Mars Needs Morons
I've heard that the sun is lit af.
That's HOT!
Brillant!
Considering SpaceX’s track record… I’m very eager for Elon and his other billionaire buddies to get on a rocket headed for Mars.
It has a fabulous track record, what are you talking about? Falcon 9 has had like 1 anomaly in the last 300 flights.
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They can call it the "Trytanic" or something and we can all laugh when it gets hit by an icy comet
The Race to Mars, Will Blue Origin's CEO beat Space Xs CEO to the Red Planet?
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I mean, when you stop paying the rent...
"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!"
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.”
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
Hooray! Don't come back.
Ok bye!
Well if any state deserves Musky, it's Texas. Sorry not sorry Austin.
Good riddance!
Oh look nobody cares.
The employees that now have to spend an extra 2-3 hours commuting probably care quite a bit.
if they're there, that's their choice.
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).
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...
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.
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Moving a corporate headquarters, in this case presumably one where a huge proportion of the business operations actually happen, is expensive. What could go wrong?
Hopefully everything.
My employer closed down its former HQ on the east coast & moved it to Austin in 2019. Much of the old HQ contained engineering teams. The CEO explained that all engineering was shifting to 100% remote so that they could start hiring the best tech talent they could find no matter where they lived. All non-technical jobs (finance, HR, marketing, etc) were moved to an existing office in Austin, where he said it would be relatively easy to hire from the talent available in that area.
I’ve been working remotely for 5 years now and really enjoy it. I’m also working not only with folks from all over the US, but globally now as well.
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.
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.
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.
Transportation options? Maybe they can dig a long-ass tunnel exclusively for Tesla taxis.
You mean he's not moving to Florida or Texas or Alabama? The places where America's "smartest" folks live?
I think their headquarters being in bama would make the most sense.
Where is she going to go?
Probably Texas
Sadly, Austin.
I just recently moved out after over twenty years there. I dearly love that town and it breaks my heart to shit shitbags like Elon and Joe Rogan bring their toxic crowds to town. Austin deserves better.
Lemmy, where people can read the technical documentation for a Linux distro, but not the article.
Why would I read an article about Elon when I can better spend that time dunking on him in the comments?
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The article says they are moving to San Jose and Palo Alto.
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He's finally turning it into a homeless shelter!
...right?
...
...right?
Don't let the gigantic dildo nailed to the door hit you on the way out... actually, do.
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