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Angela Ahrendts Says She Views Apple Store Staff as 'Executives'
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You must be feeling pretty dumb right now. If you'd stayed you'd have nearly a whole year of free Apple Music. Nothing says "thank you" like a multi-millionaire giving you an almost full bottle of beer.
I really am. What will I do without 9 months of free Apple Music? Oh that's right. Stop going home depressed because some self entitled dumba** brat shouted at me for 10 minutes because he didn't understand why glass breaks when it falls.
Maybe Apple could be straightened out with some $0 salaries for executives like her so that she leaves the company.
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Angela Ahrendts spoke yesterday to Fast Company about her first two years as Apple's retail chief and her strategy to improve the company's customer experience at its global chain of retail stores.
In an interview titled "Apple's Angela Ahrendts On What It Takes To Make Change Inside A Successful Business," the Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Stores explains that, in her first six months at Apple, she travelled to 40 different markets and met with retail leaders to learn about how stores were "uniting people and getting them to collaborate."
When asked if Apple Store staff feel the same pride working for the company as Cupertino employees do, Ahrendts boasted about the company's 81% retention rate in 2015: Ahrendts goes on to explain that her experience at Apple has taught her just how strong the culture is within the company, which was "built to change people's lives", and that the same core value is being continued by Apple's current CEO Tim Cook: Apple has aggressively expanded in China under Ahrendts' retail leadership, with stores opening last year in Chongqing, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Nanjing and Tianjin, and several more on the way throughout 2016.
In an interview for 60 Minutes late last year, Ahrendts spoke about how Apple is continually refining new designs for its stores worldwide to achieve a common "wow" factor, so that customers are "transfixed" from the moment they walk through the doors.
Ahrendts officially joined Apple in mid-2014 to replace former SVP of Retail John Browett, who was fired from the company a year and a half earlier. Previously CEO of hugely successful UK fashion retailer Burberry, she is currently Apple's highest paid executive, according to a recent regulatory filing.
Read more of the Fast Company interview with Apple retail chief Angela Ahrendts here.
Article Link: Angela Ahrendts Says She Views Apple Store Staff as 'Executives'
Angela Ahrendts spoke yesterday to Fast Company about her first two years as Apple's retail chief and her strategy to improve the company's customer experience at its global chain of retail stores.
In an interview titled "Apple's Angela Ahrendts On What It Takes To Make Change Inside A Successful Business," the Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Stores explains that, in her first six months at Apple, she travelled to 40 different markets and met with retail leaders to learn about how stores were "uniting people and getting them to collaborate."
When asked if Apple Store staff feel the same pride working for the company as Cupertino employees do, Ahrendts boasted about the company's 81% retention rate in 2015: Ahrendts goes on to explain that her experience at Apple has taught her just how strong the culture is within the company, which was "built to change people's lives", and that the same core value is being continued by Apple's current CEO Tim Cook: Apple has aggressively expanded in China under Ahrendts' retail leadership, with stores opening last year in Chongqing, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Nanjing and Tianjin, and several more on the way throughout 2016.
In an interview for 60 Minutes late last year, Ahrendts spoke about how Apple is continually refining new designs for its stores worldwide to achieve a common "wow" factor, so that customers are "transfixed" from the moment they walk through the doors.
Ahrendts officially joined Apple in mid-2014 to replace former SVP of Retail John Browett, who was fired from the company a year and a half earlier. Previously CEO of hugely successful UK fashion retailer Burberry, she is currently Apple's highest paid executive, according to a recent regulatory filing.
Read more of the Fast Company interview with Apple retail chief Angela Ahrendts here.
Article Link: Angela Ahrendts Says She Views Apple Store Staff as 'Executives'
Working for Apple, us at the front lines dealing with customers get the crumbs of what's earned. So when can we start getting paid nearly as much as the "Executives". I'll wait.
-Apple Employee.
Look we know Apple Store employees are NEVER going to be real executives. Angela is shooting herself in the foot. She keeps promoting herself and her PR sound bites and it just gives the employees someone to be angry at. If she were just some nameless millionaire executive like the rest of them, employees would just be generally pissed.
Then again I guess we shouldn't expect genuine humility from a fabulously rich corporate executive.
Then again I guess we shouldn't expect genuine humility from a fabulously rich corporate executive.
We are 'One Apple', I like it.
All the hate aside, yes she's an executive, but how did she become successful?
By the philosophy she's exhibiting here. We tend to be transfixed on the money part.
But remember its about the company, the product. That is the point. Not someone's income.
See you at work.
All the hate aside, yes she's an executive, but how did she become successful?
By the philosophy she's exhibiting here. We tend to be transfixed on the money part.
But remember its about the company, the product. That is the point. Not someone's income.
See you at work.
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God if the retail staff I've dealt with are what they consider to be executives, Apple are stuffed.
Will she start paying them as Executives as well? Count me in then...
I remember the day I hit the 'big time' working at a University. I was out of the 'clerical technical union', and into the 'administrative union'. Then I discovered that my pay scale went from hourly with overtime, to straight salary. Oh, sorry, you don't get 'overtime', you get this nebulous thing called 'comp-time', which is only granted when there is little effect on the department for your requested time off, meaning, with an ominous cackle: 'NEVER, SUCKER!!!'.
Be careful what you wish for. I did get more respect, but that university, and all the department management had their knives sharpened for the 'CT Union'. How DARE someone expect to get actually paid MONEY for slaving over the productivity demands of the department heads! HOW DARE THEM!!! I loved that job for the blisteringly fast internet access and playing with expensive toys, but the rest of it was crap.
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I have meet some damn nice, and helpful people at the local (two hours away) Apple Store. One swapped me a new iMac for my psychotic hot mess, and another swapped my 6+ after my second replacement went sideways.
I have found some that aren't worth a cup of spit, but you find that in any large organization. I go in to the encounter with clear set issues, and wear a suit and tie. I know it sounds silly, but it works more often than not. And I stick out in the normal sturm und drang of the Apple Genius Bar experience.
Like once, a man came in, obviously angry. He started shouting at the staff. 'You have been warned' the head minion said. 'We will not deal with you, or look at this issue any longer'. The guy apparently thought that Apple should cover a MacBook pro that he spilled a beer on, and had been to the three Apple Stores in the area. They are apparently linked to each other (same management?). If you are nice, they are usually right with you. Piss them off, and, well, you get the idea.
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My only comment is; Apple Stores used to be a great place to visit, full of interesting items and engaging staff, now they are mostly devoid of peripherals and sterile. Personally I don't waste my time as there are far more interesting tech outlets to visit.
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