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"It’s no secret that Twitter isn’t paying many of its bills, including the rent
for its headquarters. That was rumored last fall, but became much more clear
when the landlords sued the company in January.
Now a new lawsuit, filed last week by six former employees, provides a lot more
details on Elon’s view of, you know, paying for things he is contractually
obligated to pay for. The employees, many of whom were high level, note that
Musk and his circle of advisors (known by existing Twitter employees as “the
goons”) made it clear to Twitter employees that they were to break all sorts of
contracts:
Led by Musk and the cadres of sycophants who were internally referred to as
the “transition team,” Twitter’s new leadership deliberately, specifically,
and repeatedly announced their intentions to breach contracts, violate laws,
and otherwise ignore their legal obligations.
The employees filing the lawsuit note that they were constantly ordered to
violate their own legal obligations, often in the most obnoxious ways.
“Elon doesn’t pay rent,” one member of the transition team told Hawkins.
Another member of the transition team put it more bluntly to Killian: “Elon
told me he would only pay rent over his dead body.”
The crux of the lawsuit itself is that Musk hasn’t paid them the required
severance he owes them per their contracts. But they used the opportunity to
reveal a lot of what happened within Twitter. Enough that apparently the city
of San Francisco has opened an investigation based on the claims in the
complaint."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
