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Angela Ahrendts Says She Views Apple Store Staff as 'Executives'
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"...touching the customers with the products..."
I sincerely hope not.
I sincerely hope not.
Why? Because she was previously a CEO?
Is this the same person who devised the pretentious in-store Apple Watch try-on sessions, but to purchase one you had to order from online?
20 years ago I was stuck in a horrible dead-end fast food job for a long time, for the same reasons: it was sufficient to pay my few bills and then spend the rest on whatever crap I wanted to buy. I wouldn't wish that kind of job on my worst enemy. I hate to use the word lazy, but looking back I guess that's what it was.
In Appleland gormless statements like this get hearty nods of approval. In Covent Garden the staff rolled their eyes and shook their heads.
Not slave wages... just a little more than Mcdonalds and a little less than Starbucks.
Either way, did you tell people at your first job that you were an "executive" at apple?
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This happens in all corporations, the executives have the same standard talking pieces they rotate among each other to the sheeple..."We're family" "we're all in it to win it" "you (the sheeples) are what makes this company great" "You're the true value to the company"....on and on, nothing new
Glad to see she thinks so highly of the store employees, especially because sometimes they do amazing things like this recently: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-a-special-needs-child.1952881/#post-22512502
A Hallmark moment with some Apple "executives".
To protest the inhumane and unjust business practices of Apple you of course refuse to buy or use any of their products, right? You're not a hypocrite.
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Kind of sounds like the definition of stock options.
Her pay is astronomical, her skill at puffing up Apple's feathers is equally impressive.
Good thing there's no accountability department at Apple. How nice it must be to get paid to brag about how great the company is.
Good thing there's no accountability department at Apple. How nice it must be to get paid to brag about how great the company is.
Cool, you search your executive's bags every time when they leave office.
Ha!! You beat me by a minute!
10% of the square footage at the new Apple circle-jerk campus will be dedicated to bag check checkpoints.
Hahaha. No, they don't. It'd be like saying "well we give our executives cash compensation and we also give retail staff cash compensation, so they cash compensation like executives". Hahahaha. They get cash compensation. They do not get cash compensation like executives as the comments here have said would make more sense if you're really going to call them executives.
Are you familiar with the amount, nature, terms, and volume of options they give store staff vs executives?
It's all fine, I'm not anti-executive compensation, but seriously, calling them "executives" is patronizing if you're not paying them like executives, and to try and say they get similar compensation instruments is just intellectually dishonest.
I drive a car. It has four wheels. In that regard, it is like a Ferrari, I guess, too.
The options, RSUs, etc handed out to executives do not resemble those handed out to non-executives.
Are you familiar with the amount, nature, terms, and volume of options they give store staff vs executives?
It's all fine, I'm not anti-executive compensation, but seriously, calling them "executives" is patronizing if you're not paying them like executives, and to try and say they get similar compensation instruments is just intellectually dishonest.
I drive a car. It has four wheels. In that regard, it is like a Ferrari, I guess, too.
The options, RSUs, etc handed out to executives do not resemble those handed out to non-executives.
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I couldnt read that with a straight face.
So, I'll give my 2cents, in 2 years the store experience has reduced drastically and the length of time it takes to get an appointment has Increased ten fold. Sack her, and use the money to get the bugs fixed.
So, I'll give my 2cents, in 2 years the store experience has reduced drastically and the length of time it takes to get an appointment has Increased ten fold. Sack her, and use the money to get the bugs fixed.
You wouldn't know anyway. We are just readers on the outside
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Why do you care what she makes? She's a Senior VP
It's not - it's a stock savings plan where the company matches your contribution up to a certain amount.
Don't forget Angela, these are the same minions who you said what they were born to do is sale watches.
For some reason, I just don't think you view them anything at all like you do executives.
For some reason, I just don't think you view them anything at all like you do executives.
I don't think she can change expressions