Were that many people still at work after dark inside Salesforce Tower on Tuesday night? Or was the building being a hypocrite while half its lights were on, telling us all to save power with a blaring message across its crown.
Not a few San Franciscans noticed this bit of irony last night — and they took to social media to discuss.
Obviously the message is a good one — and we should be conserving power during today's Flex Alert too! But during peak hours, did all those lights really need to be on?
As Twitterer Ace Matkin writes, "This colossal dick has the ego to tell ME, who doesn’t even have an oven or air conditioning, to power down in this heatwave? Fucking $95.21 billion corporate twatwaffle!"
Flex alert on Salesforce tower tonight. Have you tried turning the lights off in empty office buildings? pic.twitter.com/HxVJtjc6th
A classic Salesforce tower reminder to turn off the power while using…a bunch of power. pic.twitter.com/Vj9HZOwpdS
@salesforce Tower reminding people in San Francisco that we’re in a heat wave and the power grained is heavily strained pic.twitter.com/NJKl14MFy0
This colossal dick has the ego to tell ME, who doesn’t even have an oven or air conditioning, to power down in this heatwave? Fucking $95.21 billion corporate twatwaffle! #Salesforce #salesforcetower #Heatwave2022 pic.twitter.com/bQBK6YlPEM
Now you can score a little rebate for conserving electricity during the most brutal hours the California power grid experiences, as a Flex Alert rebate program kicks in today at 4 p.m.
We've been teased a few times this summer with threats of lightning that never materialized over Northern California. But with the added fire risk of this week's hot-hot weather, the threat of unstable air and dry lightning from the remnants of a hurricane is very rare in the coming days.
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Jay C. Barmann is a fiction writer and web editor who's lived in San Francisco for 20+ years.
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