[jamesgreenleaf]

https://web.archive.org/web/20250220174125/https://www.wired...

I forget where I read this, but shutting off the cards was part of the playbook when Musk took ownership of Twitter. If I remember correctly, they shut off the cards and waited to see who complained. Apparently they discovered a bunch of subscription services that no one had even signed into or used at all, just paying out for years.

[_DeadFred_]

Or instead of guessing we an take them at their word:

"We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/books/review/administrati...

[alaithea]

That sounds like more of a failure of management than of the employee charge card system. They should be screening those charges and periodically reviewing contracts anyway.

[lelandfe]

Couldn't find much.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-ends-many-twitter-...

> Twitter will no longer be covering several costs or paying for a number of perks made available to employees, some for many years, for example. And the maximum amount allotted for work-related trips has been limited, as those trips are also set to become rarer.

> The allowance for a mobile phone bill is now $50 per month and the daily allowance for food while on a work trip is now $75... Meanwhile, the overall limit on expenses for any kind of work-related travel has been "revised" by seniority level

Searched for things like "expenses," "cards," "subscriptions," etc.

[tecleandor]

Yeah, you don't even have to look on employees perks. Can easily go to the list of hundred (or hundreds already) of SaaS and similar stuff available in my company, and see contracts in the hundreds of thousands a year that nobody know who's using it. Or multiple contracts with the same function. Or Hashicorp contracts. :P