I work at Apple in the Apple Care department, but not for the Apple Care yalls moms call for help. This has been happening for literally years and I’ve spoken about it before but no one really took it seriously but now here we are. We were told that we be in a hiring freeze for the foreseeable future and that hiring and promotions would only happen onsite. If we wanted to be promoted we needed to move to Austin or San Fran, the two most expensive cities in the country with no guarantee of a promotion, on our own dime, knowing we won’t make a living wage there. Keep in mind that this meeting was being given to a massive department who’s main workforce is and has always been WFH.
This type of crap should be mega illegal. I feel like I see this all the time. I don’t know how you would ever prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they are actually “laying people off” tho which I presume means it’s unfortunately gonna stick around as a method for companies to avoid severance which sucks.
Also, not for nothing but San Fran and Austin are definitely not two most expensive cities in the country. San Fran is kinda up there. Maybe like top 5 in some lists. I legitimately couldn’t find Austin in a single one but I only checked up to like the top 25 or 30 cities.
No one from San Francisco calls it San Fran, and when people do it’s an instant dog whistle for all bay area-ers to dog pile on them
The amount of pro apple fuckwads flying in here to bootlick is obscene.
Apple is fucked beyond repair.
I find that ANY thread about Apple will swarm with their fanboys to defend their every little move, no matter how big or small their fuck up is.
Their marketing really did a number on people’s head, Apple gets close to being a cult.
Don’t worry, Texas has importing tech workers since around COVID and it’s only a matter of time until they import enough new voters to fundamentally change laws down there…
I worry that tech bros who live in Texas will be way more susceptible to the ancap mind virus than they are now
Tech workers are not the same thing as tech bros. Musk is a tech bro and would be incapable of working as a tech worker.
If you worry you could start off by not calling them derogatory term like tech bros 🤷♂️
Might be a good start.
Not if they keep up with their gerrymandering, it’d take a shit load of tech bros to counteract gerrymandering.
Guess what, AWS is setting up their second HQ in Texas, so Texas is going to get a lot of people relocating from the west coast once that’s all finished. Guess what, they generally like to vote and be involved in local politics.
Nobody who is okay with moving to Texas understands politics enough to not get swept up into the maga cult lol
They are just a small startup they can’t afford to pay 121 people on their meager earnings. Hell they can’t even afford to update their phone design in 3 years.
Former Apple employee (retail, then corporate). I’m shocked that Tim Cook, an out gay man, would allow such a move. Texas is a hellhole. This is bullshit. Fuck Apple for this one.
You think Tim Cook, billionaire CEO of a wildly anti-consumer company, gives a shit about anyone but himself?
I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
He is a capitalist billionaire which means he has more allegiance with $$$
I’ve met multiple out gay people who aren’t LGBT friendly (or, more commonly, aren’t ‘BT’ friendly) even without the profit motive of being a piece of shit like Tim Cook has.
Being LGBT certainly makes you more likely to take progressive attitudes, but it far from guarantees it.
