flop_leash_973@lemmy.world to Apple@lemmy.world · 10 months agoApple asks its San Diego Siri quality control team to relocate to Texaswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square76fedilinkarrow-up1222arrow-down15file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1217arrow-down1external-linkApple asks its San Diego Siri quality control team to relocate to Texaswww.theverge.comflop_leash_973@lemmy.world to Apple@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square76fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-squaredinckel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up81·10 months agoAre they expecting for people to just pack their shit up, and go? We have to stop letting these companies pretend that all the workers are just meat puppets
minus-squareCethin@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up82·10 months agoHonestly, probably not. They probably want them to quit. This is a cost cutting measure that they don’t want to admit to publicly.
minus-squareturddle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoYep. Sounds like that to me. Even Apple can’t afford San Diego which is why OP’s WFH idea isn’t an option
minus-squareKbin_space_program@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down18·10 months agoThey want to force them to quit. Then they can move the office to Austin and rely on cheap illegal labour.
minus-squareoriginalfrozenbanana@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up33·10 months agoProbably not illegal per se but definitely cheaper and easier to fuck over: Texas labor protections are functionally nonexistent
Are they expecting for people to just pack their shit up, and go? We have to stop letting these companies pretend that all the workers are just meat puppets
Honestly, probably not. They probably want them to quit. This is a cost cutting measure that they don’t want to admit to publicly.
Yep. Sounds like that to me. Even Apple can’t afford San Diego which is why OP’s WFH idea isn’t an option
They want to force them to quit. Then they can move the office to Austin and rely on cheap illegal labour.
Probably not illegal per se but definitely cheaper and easier to fuck over: Texas labor protections are functionally nonexistent