Just as I have heard from friends ... Apple is not a good company to work for, there are better in Silicon Valley / Mountain View.
COOK wouldn't let that happen.
yes hire an employee to work on a fake project hoping they'll leak it so you can fire them. makes total sense.
Pretty questionable, I'd have thought. Can security effectively detain people without their consent, particularly when there is (as yet) no clear evidence of a crime?
I guess they could always threaten anyone who leaves with being fired for refusing to submit to a security check.
If I were the employee, I'd be pissed that I did all that work to never see a product hit the market. This would be a terrible policy, and there's no way apple does it.
I'd clean the restrooms for a chance to work behind the walls of 1 Cupertino Loop
A few years ago Apple was in court to get the name of the person who leaked information from a website. The judge told them that they hadn't done enough to question their employees before asking the website. The kind of thing you are talking about was exactly what this judge meant.
And it's quite common in many places that you can be searched randomly, without any suspicion of any crime, for stolen property when you leave from work. Hasn't happened where I work now, but happened at previous places. Refusing to be searched will (a) get you fired and (b) make you a strong suspect, so you will be searched.
Pretty questionable, I'd have thought. Can security effectively detain people without their consent, particularly when there is (as yet) no clear evidence of a crime?
I guess they could always threaten anyone who leaves with being fired for refusing to submit to a security check.
Room on lockdown, I question if that is even legal? "Sorry hun, I can't leave work until security lets us out of the room." ?
If I were the employee, I'd be pissed that I did all that work to never see a product hit the market. This would be a terrible policy, and there's no way apple does it.
They can if they have strong reason to believe you have stolen from them. Such as a store security guy seeing an employee shoplift. You can be detained. Now if they screw up and do a lot of assuming and other bs, then you can have a civil rights/harassment violation case to bring against them.
Basically, they better be darn sure they have strong evidence that a crime has taken place when they choose to detain employees or they can get their tushies handed to them.
You can refuse all random security checks and walk right out the door. If they touch you, get a lawyer because you've got them and can take them to the woodshed. Along with you walking out the door, so likely will be your job at that place, but they cant force you into random checks and I seriously doubt refusal can be construed as evidence of a crime.
A few years ago Apple was in court to get the name of the person who leaked information from a website. The judge told them that they hadn't done enough to question their employees before asking the website. The kind of thing you are talking about was exactly what this judge meant.
And it's quite common in many places that you can be searched randomly, without any suspicion of any crime, for stolen property when you leave from work. Hasn't happened where I work now, but happened at previous places. Refusing to be searched will (a) get you fired and (b) make you a strong suspect, so you will be searched.
A lot of employees DO have place-holder titles given prior to orientation.