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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.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"I'd rather be dead in California than alive in Texas." - Lucille Bluth

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Arizona* Lucille wouldn’t even joke about moving to Texas

[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Tax laws. Thats why they want them to move to Texas.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

“No.”

California has some pretty decent laws tilted to employees, I’m curious how this will shake out.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

didnt they just build some billion dollar donut they cant fill?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

A couple years ago, sure! Today, the entire tech sector is downsizing.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

AANF(M) engineers can still write their own check generally speaking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I’m not sure people from the Siri team are going to be in high demand.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I would have thought there would be a lot more of them by this point

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully not without moving assistance. I can't imagine that people can just pick up stakes and move 3 states away!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Especially to fucking texas. I couldn't handle that political 180. It's why I moved away from the south and back to MN.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes it's Austin, but Greg "let them drown" Abbott is still the governor in Austin too...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Let's not forget about Senator Ted "if it gets too damn cold, join me in Cancun" Cruz... The whole state is led by political winners.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Oh is abortion not banned in Austin but only the rest of the state? That's a relief.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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. ALL.THE.FUCKING.TIME.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Take the severance, then get a job somewhere else near home. They’ve worked for Apple—the world is their oyster