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Casey NewtonNEW: Twitter has introduced a $4 daily lunch subsidy through an online delivery service to replace its former full-service cafeteria, per an email shared with me. Employees noting this does not even cover the delivery fee
Jason Cipriani@caseynewton is this satire
Judit Petho@caseynewton how petty for a company like this, almost worse than not giving anything
Darren@caseynewton lol FOUR DOLLARS
Brian Wolf@caseynewton it’s just sad.
Viss@caseynewton four bux! thats like, what, half a latte from bluebottle?
Joost Schuur@caseynewton Plot twist: Twitter gets a referral bonus.
Max Woolf@caseynewton I read the first sentence and was about to immediately comment with the second
eigenman 
@caseynewton as a sftwr engr I don't know why anybody would want to work there with still so many dev job openings everywhere 
Bascht@caseynewton Management wants to know who's still got time to eat.
April King@caseynewton somehow worse than no money at all.
Caeden Kane, Councilor@april @caseynewton not really. I’ll take the $4
@ckane @caseynewton okay but you can only spend it on delivery food and it doesn’t rollover
@april @caseynewton I get that, but I’d still take that perk at my job.
StarkRG@ckane @april @caseynewton The issue is that lunch was originally covered by the full-service cafeteria, so $4 for lunch is a pretty massive cut in benefits. If you were barely getting by on your salary before this change, now you aren't.
beryl@caseynewton So we know he's stopped paying Twitter rent. Has he done any salary cutting for the remaining employees? Were any of the employees who were 'accidentally' terminated able to negotiate pay rises in order to accept re-employment? Are remaining employees being paid more after agreeing to be 'hardcore'?
Bilal@caseynewton had to double check I was following the real Casey account because of how absurd this otherwise sounds
Dan@caseynewton I’m just going to assume he is going to demand they work through lunch if they do this.
Jon Henshaw@caseynewton really looking forward to reading the next Platformer after what’s happened the past couple of days.
Stephen Shankland@jon @caseynewton Especially if it actually disambiguates all the ambiguities in the new policy.
@jon @caseynewton Think of the ENGAGMENT on that sucker!
Craig@jon @caseynewton @stshank What’re the odds that he just brokered a deal to close out his fundraising round with Gulf cash in exchange for Jared becoming CEO? At least 3:1, right?
Surly Amy@jon @stshank @caseynewton right. I’m guessing he got told to step down today by his Saudi investors and Jared. We saw the photos and his body language. But sure moar polls.
Mike Davidson@caseynewton Reminds me of when Howard Schultz had special $3 Starbucks gift cards made for his Sonics employees instead of just using the standard $5 ones. Not even enough for a coffee and tip.
jimray@mikeindustries I was going to save this for Christmas but since we’re here
https://www.masterclass.com/classes/howard-schultz-leading-a-values-based-business
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Hyoun Park@caseynewton this doesn’t even solve the most selfish potential goal of subsidizing lunch, which is to keep people at their desks to work.
@caseynewton also I bet that this subsidy eventually ends up being more expensive than their old cafeteria.
monorail times@caseynewton they get lunch breaks??
Paul Everton@caseynewton they did sign up for hardcore twitter lol
E.G. Phillips@caseynewton I get the impressions that stories about being cruel to the remaining Twitter employees are spread specifically to please Musk's base... i.e. right wing trolls who hate Silicon Valley workers because of their "wokeness"
Gabriel Markoff
Crystal Preston-Watson@caseynewton I mean it's one lunch delivery in San Francisco. What could it cost, $4?
Steven G. Harms@caseynewton maybe forcing extremely hardcore people to negotiate the veldt of mid market is designed to stimulate their running muscles to keep insurance costs down.
Rick Williams@caseynewton I pray you got a good scoop on all these moderation changes.
Amro@caseynewton the one thing Elon does well is trolling and this serves as Exhibit A
Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏@caseynewton Sometimes I wish the #TwitterIsGoingGreat people would start a Mastodon account, like the one @web3isgreat has...
pru@caseynewton he's doing it to cover the rent, Casey
Chance The Lawyer ⚡︎@caseynewton insert bananamichael.gif
JoeChip@caseynewton penny wise pound foolish
pat@caseynewton it’s bait. Musk is going to fire folks who have time to eat lunch.
W1ldW1ngs@caseynewton at 4$/day that's not even enough for McDonalds. LOL
Jacob Coblentz@caseynewton lol this is fine, tech people should pay for their own lunches or bring them in!
Colin Reuter@jpcoblentz @caseynewton
a popular trick to getting tech people to do more work is to bring in lunch. and dinner. EA loved this one back in the day
a popular trick to getting tech people to do more work is to bring in lunch. and dinner. EA loved this one back in the day
@resultsboy yeah see i think this is bad tbh, my sister works at [Large Tech Company Named After LOTR] and the meals and perks are blatantly there to make you work more, I prefer leaving work early to ride my bike
@jpcoblentz it's definitely bad
Sylvia Sierra
Njneer@caseynewton wow a whole $4 could Elon be any more tone deaf
Bob Dobalina@caseynewton I heard they took out the slide, too. Now they have to use the stairs since the landlord shut off the elevator...
wompy@caseynewton check which Elon lacky VC pal invested in that delivery company.
Sophie Zhang (张学菲)Might be able to cover a banh mi from somewhere cheap, but that's about it.
author_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x5@caseynewton Does $5 Liitle Ceasars still exist?
Joe Uchill@caseynewton I can’t tell if this is a joke.
Yiayiamo@caseynewton how long before he starts selling the furniture?
miketcope@caseynewton I started working in tech in 2000 and lived through my first employer going under at the end of the first year. They stopped paying for lunches a few months before the end. It was a common thing to see commented on at fuckedcompany.com, before that disappeared
menotti@caseynewton he's going to stop payroll isn't he
@caseynewton you can't even get street kebabs in NYC for $4 anymore🙄
Stephen Sherman@caseynewton What happened to "It took me half day to set up #Mastodon and I still can't figure it out, unless I wanna spend my vacation reading the user manual?"
A friend, citing your #podcast, "These guys are social media EXPERTS, .. Mastodon must suck if they can't figure it out."
Maybe you have "extended and revised your previous remarks" on your podcast, which I don't follow.
louisgray@caseynewton How much could a banana cost? Four dollars?
ml8_ml8@caseynewton Stay and work 14 hours/day, but also don't eat.