The Apple employees aren't complaining. For all we know they may be fine with this and think it fits their corporate culture just fine. For those of us on the outside looking in, it looks like a rather odd/dismissive gesture for the holidays. Many of us do better as employers or have seen better efforts even from Apple in the fairly recent past. We just hope Apple would go the little extra mile for their employees because they do have that credo and do seem to be holding themselves up on a rather lofty pedestal there. They're not supposed to be like all the other heartless soulless corporations out there who do give their employees nothing for the holidays. It's the holidays and time for a little kindness and generosity we seem to overlook the rest of the year.
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Apple Gifts Employees With T-Shirt and Printed Credo for the Holidays
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Except that it's not and it's quite common in the corporate world, and has been for a while.
One of my best friends just gave her girlfriend a ring.Eh, I am a girl. Can be called a woman i suppose, i'm 19 so an adult
[doublepost=1482022437][/doublepost]@Larry-K maybe the adjective wealthy must fit sonewhere in your sentence, aha
I just said "it looks lovely".
Just because it's common doesn't make it any less insulting especially when company is making money hand over fist.
For the employees who excell at the demanding sales, exacting tech support, and soul-sucking customer relations, Apple gifts Chinese t-shirts that cost them maybe ten cents.
For Cook and Ive et. al., who oversee the lagging sales of Macs and iDevices, six figure bonuses.
It's time for Apple's board to can both Cook and Ive. Send them packing and find someone with vision.
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Since when does the common American Corporate World do anything besides screw up the work of engineers and designers while screwing the hourly workers and customers? The executives get lottery jackpot compensation no matter how badly they perform. Worst case is they get fired and leave with a multimillion dollar termination bonus.
Steve Jobs was special because he ran Apple differently than the average American corporation. It's what made Apple so insanely great.
For Cook and Ive et. al., who oversee the lagging sales of Macs and iDevices, six figure bonuses.
It's time for Apple's board to can both Cook and Ive. Send them packing and find someone with vision.
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Since when does the common American Corporate World do anything besides screw up the work of engineers and designers while screwing the hourly workers and customers? The executives get lottery jackpot compensation no matter how badly they perform. Worst case is they get fired and leave with a multimillion dollar termination bonus.
Steve Jobs was special because he ran Apple differently than the average American corporation. It's what made Apple so insanely great.
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$250 gift card? That's $50 million they'd have to spend.
[doublepost=1482024491][/doublepost]Yes it is certainly not possible for the most valuable company in the world to work on two projects concurrently
Credo????
I remember back when Google had a 'motto' something like 'Do No Harm'.
When mentioned to Steve Jobs, he replied, 'That's BullsXXX!!'
I remember back when Google had a 'motto' something like 'Do No Harm'.
When mentioned to Steve Jobs, he replied, 'That's BullsXXX!!'
You don't have to spend much to show staff that they are appreciated but a t-shirt and a bit of paper with corporate crap on it isn't the way to do it. Hopefully they'll be able to offload them on ebay for a decent price, plenty of suckers out there.
Damn times have changed. When I worked there I always got a free copy of their latest OS, I got a free iPhone, free iLife, etc..
"I don’t see them as retail employees. I see them as executives in the company." Angela Ahrendts
I wish I was an executive in my company. I didn't even get a t-shirt!
It makes it fairly normal. Just like paying taxes--sure people don't like it and some might feel somehow insulted by it and whatnot, but reality is reality and has been that way for a long time.
Credos are commonplace, but that's not what's being talked about.
Got an example of any other company handing out its credo at Christmas as a gift?
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As for the credo itself, I've commented before about this one's length. Too long to memorize, and even too long to read.
If a company can't state its credo in a short paragraph, it's too long to be useful.
To me, the rambling of this one is a reflection of the lack of focus, and the feel-good handwaving, of the current management.
Differently than the average American corporation? Pretty much the same as plenty of them out there, while in some ways better, and in some ways worse, essentially evening out as being not that unusual of a corporation after all.
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Credos are handed out at all kind of times, even at holiday times. There were some examples of corporate hoodies from Facebook with some credo/motto type of thing, many other Silicon Valley companies do that kind of stuff a lot of times, and have been doing it for years.
LOL! I'm in a startup right now, and if you think it is "huge checks and champagne" you're off your rocker!! And even if you're the best person in the department, you're likely to get laid off, just to cut down the burn rate.
Maybe once you grow up you'll learn that all presents are communicative gestures, and some gestures are obscene.
Thank you for your kind words, I hope he can bring them in.
Just hoping some of the "OMG they're rich!" folks can take a step back and realize how unimportant it is in the scheme of things.
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Well, personally I'd be real happy with "Don't destroy my hours". After the Holiday Rush, by January 10th or so, you can feel lucky to get 8-15 hours a week for several weeks, where you were doing 40 or more during the height of the Holidays, as a way to balance out their books and make it look good for the people upstairs. If I was working Apple retail and they just said "Your hours won't be cut below a minimum.", I'd take that well over an iPod or something.
Not six figure bonuses, seven figures I'm sure; although I haven't looked at the annual report. Cook and Ive are here to stay.
And nobody is forcing anybody to "get screwed". The last I heard no gun was figuratively being held to anyone's head.
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Feel good hand waving is much better than a pink slip. If you like your job being part of the company culture is a great feeling. Otoh if you hate your job, this will be treated cynically, but maybe you should find a new job.
Apple gives retail employees t-shirts All The Damn Time. The only thing special about these is that the employees aren't expected to wear them to work every day.
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So you're arguing that the corporate world has been treating its employees like North Korean citizens for a while, and that makes it better? Give the capitalist-___-sucking a rest, please.
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[doublepost=1482038086][/doublepost]When I worked at Apple we got iPods, iPhones, gift cards and all kinds of cool stuff. Now they get a stupid T-Shirt. Let me tell you, nobody gave a crap about the credo that worked there. I would be so pissed if I got this stupid shirt when I worked there.
Every December, Apple provides its retail employees around the world with a special holiday gift to thank them for their contributions to the company and to celebrate the holiday season.
For 2016, Apple is giving each employee a T-shirt and a printed copy of the company's credo. The t-shirt is gray in color and features two circles created from what appears to be a list of all of the company's retail locations around the world.
The credo is printed on a heavy card stock and comes in a protective envelope. Apple first introduced its new six-paragraph credo in August of 2016.
Apple's employee gift this year is somewhat less impressive than the gifts that have been handed out in past years. In 2015, employees were given a set of black and red urBeats headphones from the Beats by Dr. Dre product lineup and a nine-month Apple Music subscription.
In 2014, employees received an Apple-branded Incase backpack, and gifts in the years before that have included things like blankets, water bottles, hoodies, free apps, discounted iTunes gift cards, and more.
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Make it the "Bacon of the Month Club", and I'm in.
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$50 Million?
You could probably find that much under the couch cushions at Apple headquarters.
I believe the maximum allowable, tax-deductible gift in the US is still $25, they're not getting that either.
Meanwhile, Eddy Cue can be found cashing his holiday bonus check and buying yet another Ferrari somewhere, as if the man doesn't have enough of them already.