Nah, you work at a startup, not a Fortune 100 publicly traded corporation. Maybe once you are employed at a huge company, you'll learn that having basic employment is all you are owed, and even then not really.
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Apple Gifts Employees With T-Shirt and Printed Credo for the Holidays
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Are you kidding? How long has Cook been promising cool stuff in the pipeline each year? He's clueless, according to half this forum.
As for the Apple credo, it doesn't even mention customers once. It's namby-pamby non-specific, a hallmark of Cook's reign and the way he himself speaks. It's full of unicorn dust and promises nothing.
Want to see an example of a much more specific (and just as long) credo? Click here to check out the one for Johnson & Johnson. Now it is a credo that anyone could understand and get behind.
I had one of the first, and have given a couple as gifts. That's why I know that new (non-fanboy) owners actually had to be shown how to do many things.
I also learned not to give an Apple Watch to an iPhone owner who always has their phone in their hands. They have no use for the Watch to alert them, as they're going to go straight to their phone anyway!
Apple of today is exaggerated promises (found in marketing BS) and the underdelivered performance of their products in real life. Does Apple still run the reality distortion field in the company? There is a big dissonant vibe between the customers and the company. Something which wasn't there between 2003 - 2011.
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Well it's clear half the forum represents the tens of millions of other users out in the real world that are buying apple productsAre you kidding? How long has Cook been promising cool stuff in the pipeline each year? He's clueless, according to half this forum.
As for the Apple credo, it doesn't even mention customers once. It's namby-pamby non-specific, a hallmark of Cook's reign and the way he himself speaks. It's full of unicorn dust and promises nothing.
Want to see an example of a much more specific (and just as long) credo? Click here to check out the one for Johnson & Johnson. Now it is a credo that anyone could understand and get behind.
I had one of the first, and have given a couple as gifts. That's why I know that new (non-fanboy) owners actually had to be shown how to do many things.
I also learned not to give an Apple Watch to an iPhone owner who always has their phone in their hands. They have no use for the Watch to alert them, as they're going to go straight to their phone anyway!
, the ones that buy the products because they meet a need in their technological life. The ones that are emotionally disassociated with the emotionalism some invest in apple and look at them as a manufacturer of products.The credo starts:
We are here to enrich lives.
To help dreamers become doers,
to help passion expand human potential,
to do the best work of our lives.
Who are the lives that are being enriched? Ive, Cook, shareholders? OR maybe customers.
Dreamers become doers. Again who is this referring to?
Best work of our lives? Put your best foot forward each and every day? Do the best you can possibly do each and every day. Seems like that is what we all want to do.
So while you personally might not like the credo, I can identify with the way it starts.
As far as the apple watch, let's use a driving analogy. Driving is easy, we as a society have been doing it for a hundred years, why do we even need how to be taught? The AW is not an iphone, and cramming all that stuff under the hood might mean a learning period. Heck, it took me a while to learn how to use my fitbit.
The t-shirt is a t-shirt - it's a pretty lame gift, but whatever. To me, the problem is that the gift focuses on company propaganda! When I read this article, I could hear the narrator from Apple's most famous ad saying, "Why 1984 WILL be like 1984." What actually worries is that I'm starting to think Cook actually believes the claptrap in the company credo.
What makes you think he/she is referring to iOS? Apple was giving out free iPhones at a time when there was only one iOS - the one that came with the phone. Mac OS updates did not become free until 2013.
Agreed- A $250 gift card costs Apple what ??? $100 or less in reality ???? Grim :-(
The card doesn't even say something generous like "thank you for all your efforts this year to make this vision come true."
Absolutely, if money isn't everything Tim, cut your salary for you and your buddy's and pay your grass roots men and women a decent living, your nothing without these people, nothing, oh and try paying your taxes instead of hiding money all over the planet, sickening to be honest.......
He said free updates along with free iphones, if I have put 2 and 2 together and got 5, what is it they say when they are struggling to use the English language correctly. Oh yes, My bad!!!
You don't know if Tim himself got on a corporate wide conference call and did that in person. Or if the employees got some meals courtesy of apple or anything else that may happened.
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In my opinion, he has earned it.
Personally, I would not want gifts from my employer. It makes no sense to me, I'm there to make money, nothing else. Same as my employer. We have that in common.
I'm not there to be friends with my corporate overlords and they don't want to be friends with me. As long as we both fulfill or exceed our contract between each other, I provide them with the work and skill required and they pay me accordingly, all is good.
I don't want their gifts, their bonuses, their perks.. I just want money.
A teeshirt is just a waste of corporate money that otherwise could have been lining my regular paycheck and that corporate creed is worthless. As all corporate creeds are.
Corporations work from the top-down. The only creed at a corporation is the attitude set by the CEO. A douchebag CEO will filter down to his VPs, then to middle management and finally to regular workers.
I'm not there to be friends with my corporate overlords and they don't want to be friends with me. As long as we both fulfill or exceed our contract between each other, I provide them with the work and skill required and they pay me accordingly, all is good.
I don't want their gifts, their bonuses, their perks.. I just want money.
A teeshirt is just a waste of corporate money that otherwise could have been lining my regular paycheck and that corporate creed is worthless. As all corporate creeds are.
Corporations work from the top-down. The only creed at a corporation is the attitude set by the CEO. A douchebag CEO will filter down to his VPs, then to middle management and finally to regular workers.
Ah yes, I remember all too well receiving a drink bottle one year, and a beanie the next year as a Christmas bonus when I worked for Apple Retail. No joke, I was told one year by a manager that our real bonus was that "we were given the opportunity to work for Apple".
I remember thinking to myself "Wow, I'm so valued as an employee at Apple" /s
It was extremely depressing, especially knowing how much money they were making.
I once won a month long staff competition/incentive, and my gift was an "I Owe You" gift voucher. I never received the actual gift voucher.
I'm glad I don't work there anymore.
It's funny looking back and seeing that every other business I've worked for since has been much more generous!
I remember thinking to myself "Wow, I'm so valued as an employee at Apple" /s
It was extremely depressing, especially knowing how much money they were making.
I once won a month long staff competition/incentive, and my gift was an "I Owe You" gift voucher. I never received the actual gift voucher.
I'm glad I don't work there anymore.
It's funny looking back and seeing that every other business I've worked for since has been much more generous!
But this t-shirt would cost you 79$ in an Apple store so it's actually a bargain.
I agree. I would be seriously insulted if my employer gave me something that read like that.
In fact, I am going to vomit right now.
LOL...
Speaking of an actual nice shirt, my RibbedTee undershirt is still made in America.
This is absurd. I know employees that are pretty peeved about this, considering in years passed they've gotten hoodies, water bottles, and free Beats headphones in years passed. Chuckle.
Wut?
I haz an iPhone SE. Very happy with headphone jack and 64GB for a very good price at Apple Store