Twitter Employees Bring Their Own Toilet Paper After Elon Musk Fired Janitors

Elon Musk has been undertaking “crazy cost cutting” measures at Twitter. The remaining employees at San Francisco headquarters of the microblogging platform have begun bringing their own toilet paper to the “smelly office” after the company cut back on janitorial services, according to a report in New York Times (NYT). The layoffs came after the janitors went on strike for higher pay.

The lack of janitors has “left the office in disarray,” with bathrooms that have “grown dirty” and persistent odours of “leftover takeout food and body odour,” NYT said citing sources familiar with the situation.

According to the outlet, some employees are bringing their own toilet paper because there are no janitors on hand to replace supplies. “Chief Twit” is said to have crammed the employees onto two floors while closing down four others.

Other cost-cutting measures include Mr Musk’s decision to close one of Twitter’s data centres in Sacramento, California, despite employee concerns that it would harm the site’s performance.

The centre was one of three critical server facilities that kept the social network up and running. According to NYT, some expressed concern that losing the servers would cause problems, but were told that the priority was to save money.