Twitter owes three months' rent to its Boulder landlord, and a judge has signed off on evicting the tech giant from its office there.
      • TooTallSol@kbin.social
        11·
        2 years ago

        It’s one way companies cancel leases and may be the best way to break a lease depending on how it’s written. Then they get evicted and the lease is cancelled.

        Look at San Francisco and all the companies just walking away from buildings while stopping any payments to said leases and loans. It’s not that uncommon.

        • GunnarRunnar@kbin.social
          11·
          2 years ago

          What kind of damages would breaking a lease create compared to not paying rent and getting evicted after months? Why wouldn’t you still be in the hook for breaking a lease?

          • blakerboy777@lemmy.oneEnglish
            4·
            2 years ago

            Yeah, this really doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. The way a commercial lease is written, you owe all rent for the agreed upon term, to be paid monthly. If you want to break the lease, early termination may have some slight benefit or a way to mitigate having to pay out the entire term- for example you may be able to find a new tenenat and negotiate a smaller fee for breaking the lease since the landlord will have no loss in income. If you just stiff them on the payments, they will obviously just sue you for the full amount with no way to mitigate that. Who would write a lease that let one party unilaterally out of their obligation when they break the terms of the contract?

        • borlax@lemmy.borlax.com
          1·
          2 years ago

          I do the same thing to all my landlords, they’ll find someone else to rent the apartment pretty quickly, fuck em.

    • JakeBacon@lemm.ee
      22·
      2 years ago

      Reminds me of a meme (read brilliant idea) I saw where US minimum wage should be tied to average rent in order to start a war between landlords and companies.

  • tangentism@beehaw.orgEnglish
    27·
    2 years ago

    Musk: People who WFH are lazy and should come back to the office

    Musk: …but I aint paying the rent on that office!

      • CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.netEnglish
        15·
        2 years ago

        Unbelievable really. These quotes from one of his many other lawsuits shows just how entitled he is.

        Elon doesn’t pay rent, one member of the transition team told Hawkins. Another member of the transition team put it more bluntly to Killian: Elon told me he would only pay rent over his dead body. 7. Both Killian and Hawkins were told that for Musk, the fact that Twitter was legally or contractually obligated to pay a particular sum would be irrelevant to the decision of whether to actually pay it when that amount came due that Musk operated on a zero cost basis"

        And

        1. Between the demands that he effectively participate in theft and fraud and instructions to take actions inviolation of California law and that could put his colleagues lives at risk in the event of a fire a possibility only increased by the unlicensed use of space heaters Killian had no choice but to walk away from the job he had dedicated over a decade of his life to .
        • Cylinsier@beehaw.orgEnglish
          13·
          2 years ago

          Elon told me he would only pay rent over his dead body.

          Wow, what an insufferable douchebag he is.

          • CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.netEnglish
            4·
            2 years ago

            Personally I have no issue with wanting to break free from landlords but the fraud theft and staff endangerment aren’t great.

            • Cylinsier@beehaw.orgEnglish
              6·
              2 years ago

              It’s one thing when you’re living paycheck to paycheck and the landlord fucks you over with an arbitrary rent increase. It hits different when it’s a billionaire crybaby doing it because he thinks it makes him sound cool and not because it has anything to do with sticking it to the man.

  • jaydurst@beehaw.orgEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    I await the day a sheriff shows up at one of their offices to confiscate some property to settle debts.

  • ZILtoid1991@kbin.social
    8·
    2 years ago

    Twitter is dying, but not some very spectacular death of the service stopping to work altogether in one day, but a slow, painful one.

  • LostCause@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    Pathetic. How anyone can deal or invest with “businessmen” like Trump and Musk who mainly grift, steal, lie and don‘t even pay their debts—no clue!

    • Zelsabriel@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      The irony of the man choosing to use the name Tesla when he’s just another Edison.

      Actually, even that is probably giving him too much credit…

  • trex@kbin.social
    6·
    2 years ago

    Didn’t Elon wante to end remote work? Seems like he needs to make up is mind…

    • Anarch157a@kbin.social
      7·
      2 years ago

      Naah. This is (in his POV) excelent. He can just fire an e-mail at 3:00AM saying: “Everyone from Boulder will have to check in to the SF office by tomorrow. If you fail to do so, I’ll assume you abandoned work and is no longer employed at Twitter”.

      What a POS…

      • EvilColeslaw@beehaw.org
        12·
        2 years ago

        Thankfully the laws aren’t always super dumb and take into account pretext. For example, if he said “If you don’t show up to work in San Francisco then I will take that as your resignation.” then it would be what’s called a constructive dismissal. It is in fact a termination, because the demands are so unreasonable precisely in order to get employees to quit. So he’d still be on the hook for any severance owed, etc

        • Hot Saucerman@lemmy.ml
          10·
          2 years ago

          So he’d still be on the hook for any severance owed, etc

          He’s being sued left and right for… *checks notes… not paying severance. So I’m not so sure “on the hook for severance” means much either.

  • sebsauvage@framapiaf.org
    4·
    2 years ago

    @mint
    Si je comprend bien, apres des toilettes qui puent parce qu’ils ne paient pas l’entreprise de nettoyage, ils se font virer de leurs locaux parce qu’ils ne paient pas le loyer, et ils ne veulent pas non plus payer les factures du cloud de Google qu’ils utilisent.
    Mais Elon est un génie.
    Wokay.

    • Marud@lemmy.marud.fr
      3·
      2 years ago

      Y a des gens qui promeuvent son intelligence, hein. Je pense que c’est pour ces gens là que les étiquettes “ne pas boire” ont été inventées sur les bouteilles de javel.