Cleaners at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters said they were fired without severance pay, even though one had worked for the company for ten years, he writes. BBC.
The BBC spoke to four cleaners who were fired from Twitter on Monday. Some people have talked about how a member of Elon Musk’s team told him their jobs would be replaced by robots in the future. A janitor who has worked at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco for four years fears he won’t have enough money to eat at Christmas. “It’s sad and frustrating for our family and children,” he said.
Julio Alvarado has been a cleaner in the company’s building for 10 years. According to him, during his time there, the environment was always friendly. Things changed when Elon Musk took over Twitter in October.
After Musk bought the company, security personnel escorted me while I cleaned parts of the office
Alvarado said. He added, “Now I don’t have money to pay rent, I won’t have health insurance. I don’t know what I’m going to do.”
Cleaners say they don’t know what to do because cleaning jobs are scarce in San Francisco right now. One California senator said Musk treated the former employees like “garbage.” In the short term, he said, he wants to see Elon Musk treat his workers like people and rehire them. The San Francisco City Attorney has launched an investigation into whether Musk broke the law. The lawyer added, “While I am not surprised that this happened, I sympathize with these workers. We will investigate.”
Musk has done a lot of interesting things since acquiring Twitter. This week it was revealed that the workers who weren’t fired should be in their offices to the point where they had already put up beds in the building, but it was also revealed that the company director himself was sleeping in his office. Elon Musk has been on a regular company management spree since he took over Twitter, we wrote about him here, and you can read a profile of the eccentric billionaire here.
