• FraidyBear
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    1446 months ago

    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.

    • @Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world
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      506 months ago

      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.

    • @Balinares
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      6 months ago

      Hiring freeze? I had an Apple recruiter reach out to me just a couple weeks ago. That’s in EU though. They weren’t happy that I was not willing to relocate for them.

        • @Klystron@sh.itjust.works
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          -336 months ago

          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

          • @tyrefyre@sh.itjust.works
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            256 months ago

            The commenter didn’t claim to be from San Fran, he was bitching about being made to move there. So of course he, like me, doesn’t give a shit what folks from San Fran call it.

          • Zuberi 👀
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            146 months ago

            Having lived there for a decade, plenty of us called it SF or SanFran ironically. It’s a bad comment and it didn’t make any sense without your context.