Elon Musk fired janitors at the company's San Francisco headquarters as they demanded higher pay and went on strike
Elon Musk's cost-cutting measures on Twitter are going to the extreme with employees having to bring their own toilet paper to the office. This comes shortly after the tech billionaire fired janitors at the company's San Francisco headquarters because they demanded higher wages and went on strike.
After the watchmen left, silence spread throughout the office. A New York Times report said the bathrooms were filthy and there was a persistent smell of "leftover food and body odor".
Now, with no janitor to replace the supply, employees began bringing their own toilet paper.
Since the $44 billion Twitter acquisition, Elon Musk has been critical of how finances are handled at the company.
"This company is basically like a plane that's speeding toward the ground with the engines on fire and the controls not working," Musk said during a Twitter space event last week.
"That's why I spent the last five weeks cutting costs like crazy," he said.
He also pointed out that various cuts were necessary to avoid a $3 billion budgetary shortfall.
Some of his major cost-cutting measures include packing Twitter employees to two floors while closing four others, including one of Twitter's data centers in Sacramento, California, despite reported concerns among some employees that This may harm the performance of the site.
