The story behind the building Twitter is getting evicted from
The story behind the building Twitter is getting evicted from
I want to expand more on the comedy of errors that led to the eviction of #Twitter from their Boulder, Colorado office. The story that leads up to this building even existing is bizarre and hilarious, so here goes... A thread 🧵 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/judge-ruled-twitter-must...
The whole thread is amusing.
there's the "Twitter Dungeon" and the corporate attempt to smother the name
and there's this gem:
Though there were windows, the work areas had no carpeting, so your rolling chairs would be constantly trying to smoothly inch you away from your desk towards the middle of the room, you had to clutch your desktop to stop from rolling away.
When we asked for carpeting to be installed, REW threw some random rugs on the floor that weren't cut to fit the room, so they would sort of just lay in the middle of the room or curl upright against corners and walls.
Actually there's so much gold in there that I can't quote it all. Just go read it lol
This is clearly some 4d chess big brain business strategy.
We should run Reddit like that too.
--u/spez
This was way more interesting than I thought it was gonna be
This was really funny and definitely worth a read.
I wonder why Twitter proceeded with construction and never thought to stop it at any point.
Wow! That is quite a saga
He's right, just looking at the pictures of the new building, it is/was beautiful. But now I'm sad because:
- It never got to fulfill its purpose, and
- It was a colossal waste of money during the pandemic.
Also reminds me of YouTubers like Retail Archeology going around and looking at dead malls in the US (this Back To The Future one is one of my favorites).
The guy posting this sounds like a bit of a freak. 'We hated the fake office, it had no logos and we needed to use a second badge', like my dude, you are in the top 5% of most privileged people in the world.