LMAO! California is NOT an "employee friendly" state. At least, it has never been to me or anyone I know.
Wait. It is. If yer the boss's wiggling trophy-wench with a silicone rack, a talent for cooking, (books that is) and an insatiable appetite for painkillers.
Yup. His n her's matching Porsche Cayennes. But hers is pink. The car, I mean, on display and parked sideways in the crammed, overflowing employee parking lot. As the boss sneeringly replies to you across his desk through shiny, white teeth: "$18 an hour? That's aerospace wages!" Bwahahaha!
California has a surplus of desperate, unskilled, disposable labor. Lurking, scratching, and bickering like rats in the putrid juices of an overflowing, leaking dumpster. Waiting for you to get sick. Or yer car to break down. Or any other thing you may do to cause displeasure to yer Emperor, I mean, Employer. "Did you just give me some side-eye?"
In fact, it is an 'at-will' state. As opposed to a 'right to work' state.
I know.... Who'da thunk in the worker's paradise land o' fruits and nuts and vineyards and moviestars?