Apple to Shutter 121-Person San Diego AI Team in Reorganization

sixhobbits 2 years ago |

> She added that “everyone currently employed will have the opportunity to continue their role with Apple in Austin.”

moose_man 2 years ago | |

Yeah but the majority of them aren't willing to move. If a company gave you 2 1/2 months to uproot and move your family to a totally different state, how likely would you be to do it? They probably expected large amounts of people would be established in San Diego and would not want to move.

ChatGTP 2 years ago | | |

I'd be doing it if I wanted to keep my job? It's a short flight from Austin back to San.

acdha 2 years ago | | |

A “short flight” still means a few hundred dollars and 5+ hours traveling unless you live in the airports, and maintaining a second house is going to exhaust that tiny relocation sum very quickly. Anyone with a family would be effectively be asking their partner to become a single parent, which is a huge burden.

redserk 2 years ago | | |

There are so many costs involved that this is a non-starter for a lot of people.

I would not want to fly back and forth on my own dime to satisfy my company. Not to mention, uprooting family/social networks/etc.

blindfolded_go 2 years ago | |

So they will have to move 1300 miles and uproot their entire lives if they want to keep their job? Sounds like a terrible position to be in.

acdha 2 years ago | | |

I’d also add that a non-trivial number of people are female, gay, or trans and so it’s not just a move but accepting a non-trivial risk of severe to potentially fatal personal harm. If your family includes anyone of childbearing age, for example, continuing to work for Apple would require accepting the risk of dying for reasons which doctors in a free state could easily deal with, and no amount of money can fully remove that risk.

tlivolsi 2 years ago | | |

On what information are you basing this serious claim?

acdha 2 years ago | | |

Texas state law gave certain Christian schisms veto power over your doctor. That means that anyone who might possibly become pregnant has to live with the risk that they will be denied medical care even in a life-threatening emergency, and even if they leave the state they have to worry about bounty hunters being empowered by the state to find them.

https://www.texastribune.org/search/

There are some possibilities for medical exceptions but nobody can count on them being granted by the religious authorities, and substantial harm can occur simply due to the delays that incurred.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/11/texas-abortion-lawsu...

moose_man 2 years ago |

It definitely smells like a layoff

jdksmdbtbdnmsm 2 years ago | |

Nah, it's just one single team. No biggie.

moose_man 2 years ago | | |

Everyone always says that right before it happens.

cranberryturkey 2 years ago |

a friend of mine works at apple and they are quietly laying people off this month and last.