Twitter Starts Selling Espresso Machine, Furniture, And Other Surplus Office Assets

Twitter's two-day online auction sale “Featuring Surplus Corporate Office Assets of Twitter!” will start on January 17 on the Heritage Global Partners' website.

Twitter may have undergone many changes after been acquired by tech billionaire Elon Musk and in yet another change, the micro-blogging company is selling kitchen appliances, office furniture and other surplus office assets in an auction. This development comes after Twitter’s new chief Musk had revealed that Twitter spends $13 million a year on food service at its San Francisco headquarters.

Twitter's two-day online auction sale “Featuring Surplus Corporate Office Assets of Twitter!” will start on January 17 on the Heritage Global Partners' website. According to the website, the sale is featuring kitchen equipment, electronics, furniture, memorabilia, among other items. There are several categories of items are on sale including espresso machines, coffee grinders, steam tilting kettles, pizza makers, electric, bakery ovens, freezers (including bar refrigerator), mobile heated cabinets, ice-making machines, fryers, laser projectors, office chairs, cabinets, and more.

Twitter Bird Statue and a “@sculpture planter” is also on sale too with an initial bidding price of $25.

Last month, Musk tweeted that staff lunches at Twitter HQ were costing more than $400 per meal. He said, “Twitter spends $13M/year on food service for SF HQ. Badge in records show peak occupancy was 25 per cent, average occupancy below 10 per cent. There are more people preparing breakfast than eating breakfast. They don’t even bother serving dinner, because there is no one in the building.”

   

This comes after it was reported that local authorities are set to launch a probe into Musk's move to convert some rooms at Twitter headquarters into small bedrooms. Local TV KQED  had quoted a San Francisco Department of Building Inspection’s official saying that they were launching an investigation into “reports Twitter has converted several office rooms at its headquarters into sleeping quarters for employees.”

It was reported that Musk has converted rooms at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco into small bedrooms, featuring unmade mattresses, drab curtains, and giant work monitors. The report said that the bedrooms have “bright orange carpeting, a wooden bedside table and what appears to be a queen bed, replete with a table lamp and two office armchairs just begging for convivial workplace collaboration.”