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Salon
Politics
Matthew Chapman

Musk fired Twitter's janitorial staff

On Thursday, The New York Times reported on the drastic cuts tech billionaire Elon Musk has made at Twitter since purchasing it for $44 billion and assuming control of the company.

One of the stranger cuts, noted reporters Kate Conger, Ryan Mac, and Mike Isaac: firing the janitorial staff and forcing employees to bring their own toilet paper.

"Early on Christmas Eve, members of the billionaire's staff flew to Sacramento — the site of one Twitter's three main computing storage facilities — to disconnect servers that had kept the social network running smoothly," said the report. "Some employees were worried that losing those servers could cause problems, but saving money was the priority, according to two people who were familiar with the move but not authorized to talk about it."

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