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Elon Musk turns Twitter into 'hotel' for staff

bbc.co.uk

6 pointsmikece9 comments

Every Hacker dreams of sleepovers in their jammies.

Get off my lawn… actually, get off the raised access floor panels I slept on back in the day. Rite of passage, that was.

> San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection has confirmed it is investigating potential violations following a complaint

Elon Musk has finally run afoul of this country's most dangerous, powerful, and unstoppable force: local government bureaucrats.

> A Department of Building Inspection official told the BBC's US partner CBS News: 'We need to make sure the building is being used as intended."

Whatever one's opinions on Musk and Twitter, petty bureaucrats inserting themselves into the situation like this is pathetic

(Not unlike the EU regulator losers. Attacking Musk for his behavior or political or treatment of workers, sure, there are lots of valid criticisms. Attacking him because you think he encroached on your pathetic regulatory fiefdom, you need to get a life)

Performing your job of trying to enforce laws about safe residential accommodation and building codes is pathetic?

Normally I wouldn't do this, but this is so hyperbolic it has to be either sarcasm or troll food surely?

It pisses me off to see petty little people on a power trip this way. It's neither of the things you said, maybe an angry reaction

> petty little people on a power trip

Ah yes, I can connect to that, can't bear that Musk guy's antics any more, either

I totally agree with you, but I put part of the blame on the journalists here. They've made it sound as if the problem is merely whether the building is being used as intended, rather than whether the building is being used as agreed - and they've failed to point out that zoning (and, I guess, taxation) would potentially be completely undermined if the regulators allowed companies to break agreements on how buildings are used.

Hyperbolic is the SF crime, homelessness, and drugs. Not a cot in an office for occasional use.

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