Twitter's Singapore employees marched out of the building by landlord after Musk stiffs them on rent

Well, yeah, and I expect that’s true for a lot of people here (you’ll be able to hear the laughter if a headhunter calls me for a job at a Musk company)

I was implying places big enough to handle purchase orders under 30/60/90 terms. I wonder how many of those will start saying “cash. Up front”

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The way things are going, he’ll have to rely on his children in his old age.

He’ll have to move from doghouse to doghouse.

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clippy

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As much as Musk wants the Twitter staff to live in their own filth in their offices, they’re not residential buildings.

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Even when talking about a corporate tenant that could pay rent but is choosing not to? Do you literally think that it’s never ok for any landlord to evict tenants from their property, even when the tenant is a greedy and poorly run corporation?

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Just in case you are unclear, in this particular case it’s actually the landlord who is the little guy getting screwed over by a multibillion-dollar corporation and not the other way around.

No one should take this kind of abuse from the likes of Elon Musk.

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Also, these people aren’t being evicted from their homes, but their offices being shuttered. They can continue to work remotely, just like they did during the lockdowns.

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No. Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are all looking to advance their tech sectors at a great rate. Estonia seems to be in the lead.

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Good thing you put “owns” on there as well as “controls”, since other people really run his functioning companies, while I would say Twitter was “out of control” or “going completely off the rails”

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Musk is truly a man outstanding in his field.

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I’ve taken to calling them “H1-b hostages” now. Sucks so much that they’re getting so screwed by that egotistical dipshit.

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Several years ago the president of Estonia spoke at my daughter’s college graduation. Some folks were a bit “why is the president of Estonia speaking”, but I thought it was an excellent speech.

"Estonia “cannot help but be the proverbial canary in the coal mine.” He noted that cyber security and the way technology changes the relationship between a government and its citizens are just a few of many issues that will need to be addressed globally.

“Whether we are worried or not, we must admit that we’re entering a brave new world,” Ilves said, telling graduates that “it’s your world.”"

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St Olaf’s?

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This has been a very consistent position within the Estonian government since the fall of the Soviet Union. Back in the 90s when I was at Visa the newly minted first president of a free Estonia was heavily interested in and involved with promoting the development of tech startups in Estonia and wanted to be the first digital cashless society

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Twitter’s Singapore landlord says avian network still a tenant, despite eviction reports

 

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I just wish that their cars were available for sale here already.

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I distinctly remember the tech press referring it as e-stonia, back when that sounded futuristic.

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Unlike with Tesla, I am have a hard time not hitting that “Invest Now” button…

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In the 90s the country did have a textured, purple see-through plastic case, so it’s fair

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