Elon Musk says free employee lunches at Twitter costs more than $400 per meal

Re:Elon Musk says free employee lunches at Twitter costs mor... by mrtksn on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @02:12PM (#33613547)

Okay, Twitter originally had 7500 full time employees. There are 260 workdays in a year and let's say %10 of those show up in the office as Musk says and 2 meals a day are served.

So this works out as (13000000/(7500* 0.1 * 2 *260)) ~= $33 a meal. How to get this to $400 a meal? That's more than order of magnitude difference. 13M at $400 a meal buys you 32500 meals and this is 125 meals a day served. 125 meals a day feeds ~60 employees only. Are there 60 employees in the offices of Twitter? Considering that Twitter is not a bank branch and the occupancy is not for only 260 days but for 365 and they don't close after 5PM, the number of people who can eat $400 meals must be considerably lower.

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Re:Elon Musk says free employee lunches at Twitter costs mor... by Shamu on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @05:16PM (#33615865)

The approximate 7500 figure is the total headcount of ALL twitter employees (not sure if this figure is global or USA only).

According to recent articles, twitter laid off around 7-800 employees from its SF office. If we go by the reports that Musk laid off ~50% of the employees, that approximates around 1500 employees at the SF office. 10% showing up would give us 150 showing up daily.

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Re:Elon Musk says free employee lunches at Twitter costs mor... by mrtksn on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @11:45PM (#33618967)

Even then It still doesn't add up. Are those employees not liking the $400 and eating mostly outside? Or fasting maybe?

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