Twitter Office Supply Auction

This is pretty unsurprising, they're not really going to raise any serious money from this (what do we reckon? 1FTE Salary at most?) but they've got office space for 7.5k people and less than 3k less. Musk keeps saying "If you code come to the 10th floor" - which basically implies that their entire team of engineers fit onto 1 floor of the building and that there a load of empty floors now that don't need kitchens or desks or chairs.

A lot of that stuff doesn't seem to be "office supplies". There's quite a lot of pro kitchen equipment in there. It looks as if they've broken down a big office canteen.

A useful comparison for discussion:reddit has 700 employees and twitter had 7000.

This reminds of the .com crash days so much. There were endless auctions and sales of office furniture, etc. I don’t even think a lot of it got sold as demand was so low and supply so high. I heard stories of people buying chairs that cost $1k for $25, etc.

Damn, a prosciutto slicer!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bidspotter.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;auction-catalogues&#x2F;heritage-global-partners&#x2F;catalogue-id-herita10194&#x2F;lot-77c093bd-9dc0-4f8d-914a-af6401169064" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bidspotter.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;auction-catalogues&#x2F;heritage...</a><p>This auction is clearly not for just the _office_ supplies, but still.

Selling off a twitter bird statue makes it look bad. What a signal that the company doesn&#x27;t believe in itself anymore.

For those interested in buying but not in SF, you&#x27;ll need to arrange your own pickup, craigslist style:<p>&quot;Buyers may either pick up Goods at the designated auction site themselves or can contract with a third party agent to manage the removal process for them.&quot;

I always think about the $10,000 couch in the lobby of the Seattle Twitter office that no one ever sat on.<p>Twitter wasted money on shit that didn’t matter for years.

Are they getting rid off some of the creature comforts for the employees who&#x27;re still sticking around? I could be wrong but is it another way Elon thinks that he could improve efficiency? Probably overthinking!

Some nice espresso machines and grinders listed there. I assume those won&#x27;t sell for 25$.

Some NEC laser projectors looks nice, want to bid on one if shipping to Europe is possible.

I would bid for the sink

Heh, quite a few 60&quot; LED TV&#x27;s in there, with starting bid price of US$50. ;)

Out of curiosity, why announce this auction so early? Bidding doesn’t start for over a month.

Darn! I was hoping their excess and vanity was rich enough to warrant them buying Aeron chairs. Who wants a Generation by Knoll?<p>I guess I&#x27;ll just buy my own.

Looking at all these Google Jamboards for sale makes me think, anyone using a Jamboard, Surface Hub or similar at home or for wfh?

Pure speculation on my part but hard not to think that they are preparing to move the HQ someplace else.

Purging that many espresso machines… guess they’ve chosen the path of purely amphetamines…

Anyone know if the Dublin office is selling anything?

Retail price for that furniture is appalling.

I would love to have a twitter bird. Only because it&#x27;s the carcass of its older self. Really wish they update the logo soon.<p>To imagine this is even news. Most companies get rid of their stuff all the time in many different ways, mostly discretely and with absolutely no interest from the public, which result in the same thing. No news.<p>But Elon has learned the Trump card. Any news is attention, and the game isn&#x27;t in good vs evil, moral vs immoral, tyrant vs iron man. It&#x27;s being in the news, and making people debate exactly that.<p>And since hate travels broader and faster than praise, at least on social media, here we are.<p>Negativity First™

Do they ship? I can’t find any details.

I am struggling to think how Elon is going to pay the interest on the loan he took for buying Twitter. On other hand his collateral , tsla stock, is crashing.<p>He got carried away to make this purchase during the rising tide of covid bull market.<p>I suspect this is going to severely affect both tsla and twtr

They have to make room for the beds. Hardcore twitter demands you sleep at work.

Surprising the system appears to run efficiently without the extra 7000 employees.

I feel like the more we learn about Twitter the more it’s just a tiny company that tried to look like Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple.<p>It’s really just a trash company that had a lot of junk and a lot of people doing nothing with overly inflated salaries.

Like I really want a $25 used La Marzocco LINEA 1EE Semi-Auto Espresso Machine filled with the tears of the forker compliance team.