{"id":8281,"date":"2022-12-13T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T14:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/13\/bird-statues-to-rotisserie-ovens-whats-being-auctioned-off-at-twitter\/"},"modified":"2022-12-13T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T14:40:08","slug":"bird-statues-to-rotisserie-ovens-whats-being-auctioned-off-at-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/13\/bird-statues-to-rotisserie-ovens-whats-being-auctioned-off-at-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird statues to rotisserie ovens: what\u2019s being auctioned off at Twitter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After shedding thousands of jobs with Elon Musk\u2019s takeover, the company is apparently shedding office furniture \u2013 and high-end cooking equipment<\/p>\n<p>Great news, holiday shoppers: you can finally get your hands on a 100% authentic, 3ft-tall statue of the Twitter bird.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/Want-to-own-a-piece-of-Twitter-The-starting-bids-17647459.php?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=briefing&amp;utm_campaign=sfc_baybriefing_am&amp;sid=61f9609dcdccf1414910b3ca\">online auction next month<\/a> will feature hundreds of the company\u2019s \u201csurplus corporate office assets\u201d that could add a certain <em>je ne sais quoi<\/em> to any home or workplace, from bizarre decor to high-end cooking equipment.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bid.hgpauction.com\/auctions\/8421\/herita10194\/lot-details\/7488c826-21ce-49f1-acbe-af6600531ecc\">A <\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bid.hgpauction.com\/auctions\/8421\/herita10194\/lot-details\/7488c826-21ce-49f1-acbe-af6600531ecc\">6ft-tall planter in the shape of the @ symbol<\/a>.<\/strong> Sure to be a hit with the tech-obsessed gardener in your life, this piece marries the ancient art of horticulture with a ubiquitous symbol of decaying public discourse. Expect heads to turn when you install this in front of your home, announcing to passersby that you have no soul.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bid.hgpauction.com\/auctions\/8421\/herita10194\/lot-details\/eb680519-0859-4dc4-aca9-af6401169072\">A \u201chigh-performance task chair\u201d<\/a>. <\/strong>Nothing says high-performance like sitting down. Turn workaday programming into X-treme coding with this seat, which uses the latest in sedentary technology to shield your thighs and buttocks from direct contact with the floor. It\u2019s surprising Musk is willing to part with this at a time when his priorities are \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/16\/elon-musk-gives-twitter-staff-deadline-to-commit-to-being-hardcore\">extremely hardcore<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bid.hgpauction.com\/auctions\/8421\/herita10194\/lot-details\/74019a73-ac15-4102-9969-af6401169068\">Kegerators<\/a><\/strong>. A house isn\u2019t a home without a fridge that dispenses beer. And a workplace isn\u2019t a workplace if you can\u2019t drink on the job. Imagine channeling your fluids through the same tubes that might once have lubricated the likes of the Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey and Christopher Isaac \u201cBiz\u201d Stone.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bid.hgpauction.com\/auctions\/8421\/herita10194\/lot-details\/1ea8f20a-f1bd-47ce-bda3-af6401169064\">A rotisserie oven with 24 spits<\/a>. <\/strong>Who could forget those late nights at the office, rustling up a snack of 24 whole chickens while sifting through hate speech? Pairs perfectly with a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bid.hgpauction.com\/auctions\/8421\/herita10194\/lot-details\/e6d1dac0-569b-439a-b0c5-af6401169068\">20-gallon vegetable dryer<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bid.hgpauction.com\/auctions\/8421\/herita10194\/lot-details\/64bc0481-c884-4ede-bc67-af6401169068\">An old iMac<\/a>. <\/strong>This computer might be out of date, but in a courageous act of corporate one-upmanship, someone stuck a Twitter sticker over the Apple logo. So that\u2019s pretty cool. And just think \u2013 this computer might have been the one used to ban Donald Trump!<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/dec\/13\/twitter-hq-office-auction-items\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/28d2fd514e8f42ade80bf5d1042ed095285a1d39\/0_116_4000_2400\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7e2c3a86fe3f748ef5b8e7fb40d5a8e4\" title=\"Bird statues to rotisserie ovens: what\u2019s being auctioned off at Twitter?\" \/>After shedding thousands of jobs with Elon Musk\u2019s takeover, the company is apparently shedding office furniture \u2013 and high-end cooking equipment<br \/>\nGreat news, holiday shoppers: you can finally get your hands on a 100% authentic, 3ft-tall statue of the Twitter bird.<br \/>\nAn online auction next month will feature hundreds of the company\u2019s \u201csurplus corporate office assets\u201d that could add a certain je ne sais quoi to any home or workplace, from bizarre decor to high-end cooking equipment.<br \/>\nA 6ft-tall planter in the shape of the @ symbol. Sure to be a hit with the tech-obsessed gardener in your life, this piece marries the ancient art of horticulture with a ubiquitous symbol of decaying public discourse. Expect heads to turn when you install this in front of your home, announcing to passersby that you have no soul.<br \/>\nA \u201chigh-performance task chair\u201d. Nothing says high-performance like sitting down. Turn workaday programming into X-treme coding with this seat, which uses the latest in sedentary technology to shield your thighs and buttocks from direct contact with the floor. It\u2019s surprising Musk is willing to part with this at a time when his priorities are \u201cextremely hardcore\u201d.<br \/>\nKegerators. A house isn\u2019t a home without a fridge that dispenses beer. And a workplace isn\u2019t a workplace if you can\u2019t drink on the job. Imagine channeling your fluids through the same tubes that might once have lubricated the likes of the Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey and Christopher Isaac \u201cBiz\u201d Stone.<br \/>\nA rotisserie oven with 24 spits. Who could forget those late nights at the office, rustling up a snack of 24 whole chickens while sifting through hate speech? Pairs perfectly with a 20-gallon vegetable dryer.<br \/>\nAn old iMac. This computer might be out of date, but in a courageous act of corporate one-upmanship, someone stuck a Twitter sticker over the Apple logo. So that\u2019s pretty cool. And just think \u2013 this computer might have been the one used to ban Donald Trump! Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After shedding thousands of jobs with Elon Musk\u2019s takeover, the company is apparently shedding office furniture \u2013 and high-end cooking equipment Great news, holiday shoppers: you can finally get your hands on a 100% authentic, 3ft-tall statue of the Twitter bird. An online auction next month will feature hundreds of the company\u2019s \u201csurplus corporate office &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/13\/bird-statues-to-rotisserie-ovens-whats-being-auctioned-off-at-twitter\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bird statues to rotisserie ovens: what\u2019s being auctioned off at Twitter?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}