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Apple Temporarily Rerouting Employee Shuttles Due to Ongoing Vandalism

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Apple runs several shuttle buses to transport its employees from San Francisco down to Cupertino each day, and recently someone has been attacking those shuttle buses, leading to broken windows.

An employee who spoke to Mashable said that several shuttles have suffered from broken windows, and on an internal email thread, there was speculation that it could be due to "rubber rounds" fired at the buses. There have been at least four reports of broken windows on January 12 and January 16.

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As a result, Apple began rerouting shuttles starting on Wednesday, adding 30 to 45 minutes to the commute from the city to Cupertino. Employees were informed about the route change on Tuesday night in an email obtained by Mashable.
Due to recent incidents of broken windows along the commute route, specifically on highway 280, we're re-routing coaches for the time being. This change in routes could mean an additional 30-45 minutes of commute time in each direction for some riders.

As always, the safety of our employees is our first priority. We're working closely with law enforcement to investigate these incidents and we'll notify you as soon as the coaches are able to return to the regular route. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
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For the time being, Apple shuttles will avoid highway 280 as Apple works with the California Highway Patrol to figure out what's going on. At the current time, it's not known what was being used to shatter the windows of the shuttle buses, with the CHP attributing the broken windows to an "unknown object."

Apple shuttles have, in the past, been the target of protestors frustrated by the tech industry's impact on affordable housing and the cost of living in the Bay Area.

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nibfiledotcom said:
Maybe Apple should try growing their workforce in other locations that aren't the SF Bay Area. Maybe some US locations that aren't on the coasts... there are some amazingly smart, talented people in the Midwest. Just a thought.
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Except none of the tech workers want to move there. I don’t really get the fascination with the Bay Area either, but that’s where everyone seems to want to go. Oh and if they lose their job/want a new one they can go to any of the other hundreds of companies in the Bay Area compared to almost nothing in the Midwest.
 
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nibfiledotcom said:
Maybe Apple should try growing their workforce in other locations that aren't the SF Bay Area. Maybe some US locations that aren't on the coasts... there are some amazingly smart, talented people in the Midwest. Just a thought.
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Apple wants the most talented engineers and the most talented engineers want to live in the most desirable places.
 
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"Desirable" is highly subjective. I'm sure many incredibly-talented people would say that they have no desire to live in Silicon Valley, that whole Bay Area is a cesspool, and that its talent pool is overrated.

I'm not suggesting that Apple relocate the company, just that they might benefit from building R&D facilities in places that aren't the same old places.
 
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Tim Cook: “We are going to ban all shuttles from entering highway 280 until the law enforcement can figure out what the hell is going on!”
 
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Strelok said:
Oh and if they lose their job/want a new one they can go to any of the other hundreds of companies in the Bay Area compared to almost nothing in the Midwest.
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Then you *DO* get the fascination with the Bay Area.

Honestly? Engineers site where there are jobs, jobs site where there's capital and capital tends to site where billionaires live.
 
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Does this have anything to do with the "New California" independence?
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nibfiledotcom said:
Maybe Apple should try growing their workforce in other locations that aren't the SF Bay Area. Maybe some US locations that aren't on the coasts... there are some amazingly smart, talented people in the Midwest. Just a thought.
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Meanwhile, engineers in the Mid-West wishes their employers would move out of the freaking freezing winter to warmer places...:(
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btbam91 said:
Apple wants the most talented engineers and the most talented engineers want to live in the most desirable places.
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I beg to differ.
Most desirable? Seriously?
The cost of living there is ridiculous!
Good luck finding a decent house that is under 7 digits around that area.
 
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nibfiledotcom said:
Maybe Apple should try growing their workforce in other locations that aren't the SF Bay Area. Maybe some US locations that aren't on the coasts... there are some amazingly smart, talented people in the Midwest. Just a thought.
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you wouldn't happen to live in one of those states...would you?
 
michaelant said:
Alright, who in here is doing this. Raise your hand.
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Could it possibly be one of the disgruntled MR people who got mad because of the throttling thing? So they take it to criminal gun sniping and property vandalism. If this were done during hours when employees were on those shuttles, it would technically count as terrorism.

I hope the FBI scours the entire area and makes arrests.
 
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reden said:
Good thing you're letting everyone know they're rerouting the shuttles so the protestors can go find and vandalize them on the new route!
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This isn't an angry mob of protestors, it's likely one person with a BB gun (actually one theory was a normal gun firing rubber rounds, that sounds plausible), somewhere along the route. I don't expect that one guy will be too surprised by the change. MacRumors is reporting it, yes, but so are dozens of other media outlets - complaining about MacRumors is yelling at the tide. Better to move to a route with fewer places to hide, make the shooter relocate, and have the police try to catch the shooter. To be clear, the problem here isn't MacRumors, it's a person with a gun.
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nibfiledotcom said:
Maybe Apple should try growing their workforce in other locations that aren't the SF Bay Area. Maybe some US locations that aren't on the coasts...
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Your solution to one bad guy with a gun is "move to another state"? Really? How about just find and arrest the bad guy?
 
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I beg to differ.
Most desirable? Seriously?
The cost of living there is ridiculous!
Good luck finding a decent house that is under 7 digits around that area.
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You do realize you just disproved your own point right? Lol. The reason houses are that expensive is BECAUSE it’s desirable, not the other way around. If people didn’t want to live here, it wouldn’t be so expensive. To people who complain about Cali being expensive I tell them one thing: you get what you pay for. You want cheap, live in Mississippi.
 
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friednoodles said:
It's baffling that there are people in this thread who are even remotely suggesting there would be an acceptable reason for someone to attack a bus, whether it be with a gun, a rock, or whatever.
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What I find criminally stupid in their argument is that they enjoy the idea of Apple employees being targeted.

Yes, there are some things to be legitimately angry at Apple (the corporation) about. But to channel that anger/hate towards rank-and-file Apple employees is just stupid.
 
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nibfiledotcom said:
"Desirable" is highly subjective. I'm sure many incredibly-talented people would say that they have no desire to live in Silicon Valley, that whole Bay Area is a cesspool, and that its talent pool is overrated.

I'm not suggesting that Apple relocate the company, just that they might benefit from building R&D facilities in places that aren't the same old places.
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You'd think tech companies in particular would be aware of the benefits of remote working. Not everyone needs to be in the same site/location. Try to do so, and you end up with much higher cost of living, longer commutes.

There are other benefits to diversifying your company locations too - when I worked in Apple we worked on a project where a build was released at end of day (by devs in Cupertino) then tested for ~8 hours (by QA in Tokyo) then tested for another ~8 hours (by QA here in Cork). By the time the devs come back to work the following morning the build had effectively been tested for 2 days. You could do the same with shift-work, but I think this is a lot better for peoples' quality of life, and probably cost too!
 
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