Twitter owes three months' rent to its Boulder landlord, and a judge has signed off on evicting the tech giant from its office there.
  • trex@kbin.social
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    3 years ago

    Didn’t Elon wante to end remote work? Seems like he needs to make up is mind…

    • Anarch157a@kbin.social
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      3 years ago

      Naah. This is (in his POV) excelent. He can just fire an e-mail at 3:00AM saying: “Everyone from Boulder will have to check in to the SF office by tomorrow. If you fail to do so, I’ll assume you abandoned work and is no longer employed at Twitter”.

      What a POS…

      • EvilColeslaw@beehaw.org
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        3 years ago

        Thankfully the laws aren’t always super dumb and take into account pretext. For example, if he said “If you don’t show up to work in San Francisco then I will take that as your resignation.” then it would be what’s called a constructive dismissal. It is in fact a termination, because the demands are so unreasonable precisely in order to get employees to quit. So he’d still be on the hook for any severance owed, etc

        • Hot Saucerman@lemmy.mlBanned
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          3 years ago

          So he’d still be on the hook for any severance owed, etc

          He’s being sued left and right for… *checks notes… not paying severance. So I’m not so sure “on the hook for severance” means much either.

      • TooTallSol@kbin.social
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        3 years ago

        It’s one way companies cancel leases and may be the best way to break a lease depending on how it’s written. Then they get evicted and the lease is cancelled.

        Look at San Francisco and all the companies just walking away from buildings while stopping any payments to said leases and loans. It’s not that uncommon.

        • GunnarRunnar@kbin.social
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          3 years ago

          What kind of damages would breaking a lease create compared to not paying rent and getting evicted after months? Why wouldn’t you still be in the hook for breaking a lease?

          • blakerboy777@lemmy.oneEnglish
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            3 years ago

            Yeah, this really doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. The way a commercial lease is written, you owe all rent for the agreed upon term, to be paid monthly. If you want to break the lease, early termination may have some slight benefit or a way to mitigate having to pay out the entire term- for example you may be able to find a new tenenat and negotiate a smaller fee for breaking the lease since the landlord will have no loss in income. If you just stiff them on the payments, they will obviously just sue you for the full amount with no way to mitigate that. Who would write a lease that let one party unilaterally out of their obligation when they break the terms of the contract?

  • sebsauvage@framapiaf.org
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    3 years ago

    @mint
    Si je comprend bien, apres des toilettes qui puent parce qu’ils ne paient pas l’entreprise de nettoyage, ils se font virer de leurs locaux parce qu’ils ne paient pas le loyer, et ils ne veulent pas non plus payer les factures du cloud de Google qu’ils utilisent.
    Mais Elon est un génie.
    Wokay.

    • Marud@lemmy.marud.fr
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      3 years ago

      Y a des gens qui promeuvent son intelligence, hein. Je pense que c’est pour ces gens là que les étiquettes “ne pas boire” ont été inventées sur les bouteilles de javel.

  • ZILtoid1991@kbin.social
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    3 years ago

    Twitter is dying, but not some very spectacular death of the service stopping to work altogether in one day, but a slow, painful one.

  • jaydurst@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I await the day a sheriff shows up at one of their offices to confiscate some property to settle debts.

  • tangentism@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Musk: People who WFH are lazy and should come back to the office

    Musk: …but I aint paying the rent on that office!