After Musk "frantically cut costs", Twitter employees were exposed to "bring their own toilet paper" to work.
[Global Network Report Trainee Reporter Li Shirui] According to the news of foreign media such as New York Post in the United States and The Independent in the United Kingdom on December 30, with Musk implementing comprehensive cost-cutting measures at Twitter, including firing some cleaning staff of the company, Twitter employees were forced to bring their own toilet paper into the "smelly office". The Independent said that when asked if the report was true, Musk’s response on Twitter seemed to confirm it.
New York Post said that in order to save money, Musk suddenly fired some cleaning staff at the company’s San Francisco headquarters this month, who were fired after a strike for a pay rise. The Independent added that Twitter also closed the four-story office and transferred all its employees to the two-story office because it failed to fully pay the rent of the company’s office in San Francisco. India’s New Delhi TV station also mentioned that Musk has been taking "crazy" cost-cutting measures at Twitter.
The New York Times quoted people familiar with the matter as adding that due to the lack of cleaning staff, Twitter’s "office is in a mess", the bathroom has become "dirty", and the "take-away food (taste) and (human’s) body odor" are lingering, and some employees can only bring their own toilet paper from home.
When a netizen took a New York Post report entitled "Twitter employees used their own toilet paper after the cleaning staff was laid off in elon musk" and asked, "Is this true news or fake news?" Musk replied to the netizen and said, "BYOTP! Haha, it was like this for a long time. " Another netizen mentioned that Musk’s "BYOTP" is the acronym for "bring your own toilet paper". The Independent believes that Musk’s response "seems to confirm relevant reports".
New York Post, The Independent and The New York Times all said that they had contacted Twitter for comment, but these media all said that Twitter had dissolved its communication department.
According to previous reports, the massive layoffs after Twitter was acquired by Musk even alerted the United Nations in November this year. "When the company loses more than $4 million a day, there is no choice." Musk defended his actions on Twitter. A Twitter executive sent a tweet confirming that Twitter has about 7,500 employees worldwide, and this layoff may cut half of them. The United Nations website reported that Volker Tü rk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, sent an open letter to Musk, urging him to make "safeguarding human rights the center of Twitter management". Turk said that the open letter was published after it was reported that Twitter had laid off almost the entire human rights and artificial intelligence team of the company. This is not a "good start". "Twitter is part of the global revolution that has changed the way we communicate. However, when I wrote this letter, I was deeply concerned and worried about the role of digital public squares and Twitter. "