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There Should Be a Way to Boycott Cleaning Labor at Twitter HQ [1]

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Date: 2022-12-16

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Idly perusing local teevee news on a day off yesterday I was enormously heartened to see San Francisco Mayor London Breed righteously give it to Twitter management for abusing their cleaning staff, Mayor Breed had attended their public rally in their attempt to get their jobs back.

Ever the techbroprick, one of the first things Elon Musk did when taking over the management of Twitter was to fire the entire cleaning staff for having the temerity to want a union. For the little people cleaning the Twitter building words like vacation, savings, sick pay, leisure, and hobby don’t exist, they weren’t asking for that, just the ability to feed their kids in one of the most expensive cities in the country.

To the uninitiated the techbroprick view of labor is simply a demographic slot designed for a necessary task at the cheapest price possible. If the fools in the unfortunate place of having to do it are stuck there tough on them for not figuring a way out, ruthlessly abuse them or just fire them on the spot if they get uppity, there’s always replaceable human parts in that demographic pool out there.

Ultimately, no matter what Mayor Breed says or how many rallies the fired workers hold Elon Musk is sure that eventually he’ll get away with it, he showed those liberals what a proper ruthless American workplace is like and enough desperate little people showed up to replace them.

To which I say: I don’t think so.

Elon Musk may have in fact the legal right to fire Twitter cleaning staff on the spot, even if somehow he’s eventually fined for doing it improperly. Even if there is no codified procedural way off a handy human shelf for doing it, the automatic response should be to boycott cleaning labor at Twitter headquarters.

That’s right, ruthless unfeeling techbroprick Elon Musk, fire your cleaning staff on the spot for wanting a union in the city of San Francisco means an instant boycott of cleaning at your headquarters, within a week your coding teams will get toilets or trash cans on their goals list.

Or you can slither in the reek of your own techboprick slime with overflowing trash cans, fetid toilets, littered carpets and cloudy glass. It’s up to you.

Cleaning labor of course is not hired by Twitter, they subcontract it out. I would humbly, respectfully request of the fine Mayor Breed to stop that replacement cleaning contracting at Twitter headquarters.

Of course there is nothing in your codified authority for doing so, but in the human world we live in there must be a way to let a replacement cleaning contractor at Twitter know that if he or she signs up with that techbroprick all the hell, brimstone and fiery disapproval of the San Francisco Mayor’s office will be upon them.

Maybe the unions in San Francisco could help, I respectfully request that you ask them, what can be done to make Twitter headquarter cleaning contracting so legally uncomfortable that no one will sign up for it? When you know, please do it.

Then finally for once that techbroprick Elon Musk will face some immediate consequences for being such a ruthless, unfeeling Scrooge. Either hire your former cleaning staff back with a union, make your own staff do it, or watch your headquarters disintegrate into the unworkable filth that’s an uncanny mirror of your own mind and soul, Elon Musk.

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