I was talking to a friend of mine earlier and she asked I had seen the news where EM - in her words - "fired all of the cleaners". I had not seen it, but here is a sample piece:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/12/08/how-elon-musk-handled-a-janitors-strike-at-twitter-hq-n2616899

SEIU complaining, etc., but that is par for rhe course. (I worked downtown for years - they are always out there banging drums, etc.) But what got my attention was her inadvertently using the word 'cleaner', rather than janitor, mainly because of the definition of a cleaner in urban slang.

Take a look at this site:

https://slangdefine.org/c/cleaner-8767.html

Note this part:

Elite cleaners are rarely found in the mobs/mafias/gangs etc., but instead a part of a government agency. Considering the drastic consequenced often involved with these agencies actions, elite cleaners are required. You never hear of them, and you rarely hear of what they have cleaned up. All that's left is the event: something happened, but the cleaner will make sure there are no trails left behind. Such cleaning jobs can be on a global scale, such as clearing a trail of money used to get the job done.

My friend was taking the news of the firing literally. Like it will get messy to have no one cleaning the bathrooms. I told her that doesn't make a lot of sense because janitorial services are contracted out. They don't literally work for Twitter - the contract is usually with the building- every building I worked in downtown was like that and that included buildings that housed federal agencies. I asked her if Twitter owned the building. She thought they did but admitted she was not sure. She remembered it being a furniture wholesale place prior to that and then Twitter renovated it when they moved in. But the building is too large to just have Twitter as the only tenant, especially when they were smaller. She pointed out the tax break the city of SF gave them and I remember that, but I thought that was for corporate taxes, not property. I could hear in her voice her second guessing. (Later I double checked and it looks like Shorenstein either owns or manages the property.)

My tinfoil brain is thinking that the cleaners being referenced in the story aren't just referring to the janitorial contracts. (Even that doesn't make sense; SF has been very slow in getting people back into work; janitorial would not be staffed up that much in part because there is not that much to do if no one is there but also, those are the jobs that are hard to fill right now.)

Also, Andy Ngo has been commenting and posting screenshots of employees with the intelligence background who are removing their LI profiles.

Long way of saying, the movie is getting good. 🍿