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Twitter CEO Elon Musk slammed people who work from home in an interview this week and declared the practice was “morally wrong,” despite the fact that, as head of three companies, it is virtually impossible for him to be in three offices at once. He’s the quintessential remote CEO. Although Musk’s comments dominated…
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San Francisco authorities have opened a new investigation into Twitter after six former senior employees filed a lawsuit against the company, according to AP and the San Francisco Chronicle. The plaintiffs are accusing the company of breaking local and federal laws and of violating building codes in its effort to turn some of the rooms in its headquarters into bedrooms for employees.
The city’s authorities first launched an investigation into the company in December 2022 following a Forbes report that it converted some its conference rooms so its staff would have somewhere to rest. If you’ll recall, Elon Musk asked remaining employees after a series of mass layoffs to commit to an “extremely hardcore” Twitter that expects them to work “long hours at high intensity.” The employees were reportedly given no context about the bedrooms. But one could come to the conclusion, based on his ultimatum, that Musk expected employees to work very long hours that they’d need somewhere to rest in or sleep in overnight.
One of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit is Joseph Killian, the former lead project manager of global design and construction at Twitter. He said Musk’s team instructed him to violate building codes, including removing motion-sensitive lights because they were bother the staff trying to sleep. The company’s landlord apparently rejected the request, but he still had to hire an electrician to disconnect the lights without permission.
Killian also said that he was told to install cheaper locks for the sleeping quarters that don’t automatically unlock in case of emergency, even though he warned the team that they’d prevent first responders from accessing the rooms. He reportedly quit that day, though somebody else installed the locks afterward. In addition, Killian accused the company of telling him not to divulge those planned changes to city inspectors visiting Twitter HQ. The inspectors only saw the beds and new furniture and had no idea about the violations, the lawsuit stated.
Aside from Killian’s complaints, the lawsuit also accuses Twitter of not paying their promised severance. The new leadership under Musk, it said, “deliberately, specifically, and repeatedly announced their intentions to breach contracts, violate laws, and otherwise ignore their legal obligations.” Regarding Twitter not paying rent, for instance, Musk adviser Pablo Mendoza allegedly told former Twitter real estate division lead Tracy Hawkins: “Elon told me he would only pay rent over his dead body.” Alex Spiro, Musk’s personal attorney, also allegedly and “loudly opined that it was unreasonable for Twitter’s landlords to expect Twitter to pay rent, since San Francisco was a s—hole.” The California Property Trust, which owns the building where Twitter’s HQ is located, sued the company for failing to pay $136,250 in rent back in January.
San Francisco previously gave Twitter 15 days to fix its building permit to be able to keep their beds after Forbes‘ report came out, but the Chronicle says permits haven’t been granted yet. This new investigation is reportedly being conducted by the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection, though it has yet to issue an official statement. As for Twitter, the company hasn’t had a communications team in a while.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/san-francisco-is-reportedly-investigating-twitter-over-possible-building-code-violations-113721801.html?src=rss
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AT&T doesn’t think that the satellite-to-phone service T-Mobile and SpaceX’s Starlink are planning should be approved as it is, and it has informed the FCC of its opinion in a filing (PDF). As Bloomberg notes, the carrier has raised concerns that the companies’ service, in its current proposed state, could interfere with existing wireless services. “[I]t is paramount that operations do not jeopardize or inhibit the delivery of terrestrial wireless services,” AT&T wrote.
In August last year, T-Mobile and SpaceX announced a collaboration that would allow the carrier’s subscribers to connect to Starlink’s second-gen satellites for coverage even if they’re in the most remote locations. The companies are gearing up to begin testing this year, and the FCC started seeking comments (PDF) in April on their request to establish supplemental coverage from space (SCS). AT&T’s filing is a response to that call.
The carrier wrote that FCC’s rules “do not permit SpaceX’s proposed use of T-Mobile’s terrestrial spectrum” and that the companies “fail to even request — much less justify — rule waivers that would be necessary to authorize their proposed SCS authorizations.” It added: “More broadly, the Applicants’ technical showings are woefully insufficient regarding the risk of harmful interference posed by their planned SCS deployments. SpaceX and T-Mobile’s applications fall far short of meeting the threshold for waiver and cannot be granted in their current state.”
AT&T has plans for a satellite service of its own in partnership with communications specialist AST SpaceMobile. The companies successfully conducted the first two-way satellite audio call on AT&T’s network in Texas to a Rakuten number in Japan on a Samsung Galaxy S22 smartphone in April. The carrier assured in its filing that consistent with its comments, “AT&T and AST intend to provide the demonstrations necessary to show that they will not cause interference to any authorized terrestrial system.”
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/att-opposes-the-starlink-and-t-mobile-satellite-to-phone-service-plan-090021432.html?src=rss
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