Well, depending on the gift, sometimes no gift is better than an insulting one.
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Apple Gifts Employees With T-Shirt and Printed Credo for the Holidays
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Well, depending on the gift, sometimes no gift is better than an insulting one.
Things are getting a little creepy with these t-shirts! Someone tried to sell theirs online but got zero offers because an image of a person started to appear! The owner said the more it was washed the clearer the image became! 
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Unimaginativeness aside, I seriously doubt these are FairWear (www.fairwear.org) sourced T-Shirts. That alone is a tragedy for any company that has a CSR department.
Filtering the Newbie "Tim has to Go" comments is becoming of you, but equally expectable.
while apple isn't expected to give out anything for christmas to it's employees, i do have to say that it's amusing to see what were once amazing gifts dwindling down to cheap t-shirts.
also the t-shirt doesn't remind me of apple at all. it's just a weird, dark coloured t-shirt that is extremely generic. it feels very... cold. zero effort sort of thing.
"this is where we employ thousands of people. you are not a name, but a location listed on a shirt."
also the t-shirt doesn't remind me of apple at all. it's just a weird, dark coloured t-shirt that is extremely generic. it feels very... cold. zero effort sort of thing.
"this is where we employ thousands of people. you are not a name, but a location listed on a shirt."
Well in the UK a profit share / bonus scheme is fairly common. John Lewis have the best scheme / structure.
If you look closely at the short text, you can see it reads "I work for a billion dollar company and all I got for Christmas was this lousy tshirt" hehe
Seriously I hope they got a bonus too.
Seriously I hope they got a bonus too.
Eddy for one drives his 12th Ferrari because he loves them.
Angela drives hers because there is just nothing in her muff boutiques where she can spend her 25 mio yearly on...
Don't think if I was an employee that I would be enthusiastic about a company t-shirt and a group think card that could have come from an employee indoctrination course (think little Red Book or The Green Book, etc.)
Only thing worse is if the shirt were a handkerchief and the card were laminated and pocket-size.
Basically someone has co-opted the traditional holiday demonstration of gratitude to turn it into a company self-congratulatory promotion turning on an advertising t-shirt and an employee reminder of the company mission statement.
As shareholders, my siblings and I are rather disgusted by this.
We thought AirPods would be both a great gift and a great advertisement of the company's generosity and a great advertisement.
I was musing that an AirPods gift would hit the bottom line for 30 million until my sister (an artist, no less) said "you calculated with retail price, not manufacturing cost". (LoL.) So then its 20M$ for a bunch of happy employees and a lot of positive buzz.
Instead, I can't imagine another "gift" with better potential for making employees feel less motivated and possibly even insulted.
Only thing worse is if the shirt were a handkerchief and the card were laminated and pocket-size.
Basically someone has co-opted the traditional holiday demonstration of gratitude to turn it into a company self-congratulatory promotion turning on an advertising t-shirt and an employee reminder of the company mission statement.
As shareholders, my siblings and I are rather disgusted by this.
We thought AirPods would be both a great gift and a great advertisement of the company's generosity and a great advertisement.
I was musing that an AirPods gift would hit the bottom line for 30 million until my sister (an artist, no less) said "you calculated with retail price, not manufacturing cost". (LoL.) So then its 20M$ for a bunch of happy employees and a lot of positive buzz.
Instead, I can't imagine another "gift" with better potential for making employees feel less motivated and possibly even insulted.
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The holidays seem like the perfect time to bring people together in a company cultural sense. As a shareholder I understand why it was done. But if the gist of this is go big or go home, I can't see it happening. I don't know apples bonus structure so I can't comment if this was in lieu or in addition to cash.
I can't believe that there are some on here actually trying to defend apple and this insult to its employees.
Well, everyone has it own opinion and this is a way to appreciate employees efforts which make the Apple stronger then another technology brand in the world.
I want to say that many employees don't get any christmas gifts from their employers at all, but with that said.. sometimes receiving nothing may be better than receiving garbage.
I cannot believe the "denial" in which Apple is acting these days. I am not really sure, what this T-shirt or credo should do? I am a great Apple supporter and customer since 1997, but with Job's death, this has steadily declined. The credo of "Integrated" and "not good enough" are subjects of a distant path... Most everything they release, from Interface Design to Software Quality is just utter ...
Do you work for a near Trillion Dollar company?
I have worked for small companies who gave out great Christmas gifts. You would expect a company the size of Apple to be a bit more generous than a tshirt and a piece of card. It would have been less offensive to have given nothing.
No employee is entitled to a Christmas gift from their employer.
That being said, this t-shirt is a POS. If I worked for Apple I would rather have nothing than to be disrespected like this.
That being said, this t-shirt is a POS. If I worked for Apple I would rather have nothing than to be disrespected like this.
Am I missing something...
http://www.gcflearnfree.org/iphonebasics/ios-9-frequently-asked-questions/1/
Ios9.is free to download, like all previous ios updates..
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.macworld.com/article/1160376/ios5_faq.amp.html
Ios5 is completely free. Shall I go on...
Becuase he mentioned OS updates then free iphones, I have put the two together.
If we r talking about osx updates, my work imac gets updated as and when.. I don't use a mac at home..
Well, the t-shirt is definitely nothing to write home about, but the company "credo" is absolutely creepy. Was that written by L. Ron Hubbard?
Apple, you are not on a holy mission; you are not a teacher of wisdom; you are not our savior.
You are a global corporation driven by market share and profit. Like all other corporations, you use exploitation and propaganda to achieve your ends.
So stop taking yourself so seriously. Nobody else does...
Apple, you are not on a holy mission; you are not a teacher of wisdom; you are not our savior.
You are a global corporation driven by market share and profit. Like all other corporations, you use exploitation and propaganda to achieve your ends.
So stop taking yourself so seriously. Nobody else does...
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I've worked in retail before and I generally didn't get much during Christmas, but Apple has prided themselves as a company thinking different. I think the printed copy seems a bit pretentious and arrogant, and the t-shirt is a bit cheap.
I'd rather not get anything then a cheap t-shirt, because they get t-shirts anyways for their job.
I'd rather not get anything then a cheap t-shirt, because they get t-shirts anyways for their job.
This Apple credo is simply marketing nonsense for employees. "look! we are so unique! we're the best" blah blah... those times are simply over without Steve Jobs. Just take a look at their current products - that says it all (worst MacBook, Software QS is going down)... but hey, drink our Apple kool-aid... What Apple really needs? New young people in Leadership which "thinks different" - like Microsoft is already doing a lot. Microsoft has done a 180-degree turn compared to their ugly past in the 90ies or with Steve Ballmer as CEO. Microsoft learns and explores in new ways while Apple stays in the past repeating the same BS without really changing anything.
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