Elon Musk wanted a bathroom built next to his office in Twitter's headquarters so he didn't have to wake up his bodyguards in the middle of the night to go pee, a new lawsuit claims.
Six former Twitter employees filed the suit against Musk and X. Corp, Twitter's holding company, in the District Court of Delaware on Tuesday.
It accuses the defendants of violating 14 counts, including fraud, breach of contract, and labor-rights laws. But it's also full of details about what's been going on inside the social-media company under the billionaire's leadership.
A Twitter engineer told the BBC in March that at least two
bodyguards followed Musk around its San Francisco headquarters, including to
the restroom.
The lawsuit says that Steve Davis, the Boring
Company CEO, told Joseph Killian – a plaintiff who worked at Twitter for 12
years and oversaw office design – to start work on a new restroom closer to
Musk's office.
Musk wanted the facilities next to his office so
he "didn't have to wake his security team and cross half the floor to use
the bathroom in the middle of the night," the suit says.
Last month, the billionaire told the BBC that he sometimes
slept on a couch in the library at Twitter's headquarters. Musk also told
CNBC on Tuesday that he slept for about six hours a night.
The
suit says Killian told Davis that he would start getting the permits for
Musk's restroom, but the suit paraphrases him responding: "We don't do that;
we don't have to follow those rules."
According to the suit, he
instead suggested Killian hire an unlicensed plumber to build the toilet
since others wouldn't want to jeopardize their license by working on a
project without a permit.
Insider reached out to Twitter for comment. It responded with
its standard poop-emoji auto-reply.
Elon Musk did not directly
reply to Insider, but tweeted about this story after its publication,
calling the claim about his bathroom an "absurd scenario."
"Even
were this absurd scenario true, my 'bodyguards' being asleep instead of
thwarting assassins would be of far greater concern to me than shortening my
trip to the [toilet]," he said.
