Apple to over 100 California employees: Move to Texas or lose your job::Most of the team working on key Siri operations is already based in the Texas captial’s Apple campus. Others in San Diego are receiving al ultimatum.
This should be illegal
Apple to over 100 California employees: Move to Texas or lose your job
Submitted 9 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/apple-california-texas-austin-18610773.php
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Maddie@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Cogency@lemmy.world [bot] 9 months ago
pokemaster787@ani.social 9 months ago
Note that isn’t illegal, it just means the company doesn’t get to get out of paying unemployment when it happens. And that’s only if someone is willing to challenge them on it.
Steve@communick.news 9 months ago
What do you mean? If it was, they would just fire someone in CA and hire someone in TX.
PlantObserver@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Have you not noticed how fucking stupid Texans are? Good luck finding talent
reddig33@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s just sneaky layoffs through attrition. Honestly these are work from home jobs (listen and evaluate recorded snippets) so there’s no other reason to make them move.
GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Tax laws. Thats why they want them to move to Texas.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 9 months ago
“No.”
California has some pretty decent laws tilted to employees, I’m curious how this will shake out.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Anybody at Apple will have half a dozen offers by the end of the week if they tell LinkedIn they’re open to new opportunities.
Steve@communick.news 9 months ago
A couple years ago, sure! Today, the entire tech sector is downsizing.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s a bit of a weird time. The big guys cut thousands of jobs last year, but if you were willing to go to anything that wasn’t FAANG, there were jobs everywhere.
I had ~5 offers within a month of being laid off last spring.
Municipal0379@lemmy.world 9 months ago
AANF(M) engineers can still write their own check generally speaking.
SuperIce@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I still get random emails from companies offering me job interviews every week and I haven’t been searching for jobs in over 5 years. The amount coming from the massive companies like Amazon and Google have plummeted, but I still get an email from one of those every few months asking if I want to talk.
mriguy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m not sure people from the Siri team are going to be in high demand.
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 9 months ago
didnt they just build some billion dollar donut they cant fill?
toiletobserver@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Reason #437 to unionize
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
I would have thought there would be a lot more of them by this point
jordanlund@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Hopefully not without moving assistance. I can’t imagine that people can just pick up stakes and move 3 states away!
Gandarf@startrek.website 9 months ago
Especially to fucking texas. I couldn’t handle that political 180. It’s why I moved away from the south and back to MN.
stoly@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m somewhat a fanboy of Apple but this would ruin it for me. No way you could get me to step into the state with the lowest quality of personal liberties in the country.
Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone 9 months ago
The resentful employees, once relocated to Texas, should all instantly adopt ridiculously OTT cowboy wear with the boots and oversized hats and rhinestone chaps. They would walk around the office with their thumbs in the belts and a weird bow-legged swagger, doing cartoon-like impersonations of Texan cowboy jibber-jabber at all times, occasionally bursting into a blood-curdling screech of “YEEEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAWWWW!!!” and firing shiny cap-guns up into air.
zoostation@lemmy.world 9 months ago
“I’d rather be dead in California than alive in Texas.” - Lucille Bluth
jopepa@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Arizona* Lucille wouldn’t even joke about moving to Texas