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Apple Gifts Employees With T-Shirt and Printed Credo for the Holidays
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Does that mean worthless? =)
I think I need to reinstall or just start fresh. The odd freezes have become annoying. A new MBP is out of the question.
I think everything since Snow Leopard is a POS, but that's just me.
I got a friend a 2012 13.3 refurb MBP, because she wanted an optical disk, they seem to sell like hotcakes, They keep going in and out of the refurb store, I'm surprised they have so many.
I upgraded it to a 1TB drive (7200, not the 5400 junk that came in it) and 16GB (as much as the new MBP!) for about a grand total, and no dongles, it's got ports all over the place, even Firewire (she has lots of legacy backup drives that plug right in).
I like the 2012 MBPs and the Minis of that period, very useful and reasonably priced machines, the likes of which, we'll never see again.
Sierra is only useful if you want to ask Siri what the f is wrong with Apple.
I've started doing only fresh starts, Migrations always seem problematic.
Is the credo on the t-shirt? Not to mention that plenty of people wear corporate clothing that has some mottos or similar things on them.
Retail employees are a dime a dozen. A t-shirt is a sufficient gift. If Apple gave them each a $10,000 bonus shareholders would yell and scream.
Nonsense. (Ex) shareholder here. Who suggested $10,000?
If I was still a shareholder, I'd be fine with $100-$300. I'd say most are worth at least that.
It IS a massive surprise. I had to buy mine.
Later generation iPhones we're given out as company phones but they were always the property of Apple inc.
We did all get a Shuffle - the first clip on version. That was pretty cool.
I'm actually okay with the claptrap...just not as a form of holiday greeting card. That sounds like the usual propaganda given to new employees. It's such a weird thing to give out for the holidays.
I was reading an article earlier this evening that was one one of my news aggregator apps about former employees dishing on what it's like to work at Apple in any capacity. Good grief it sounds like a weird cultish place, like Scientology, a little bit. And yes, a lot of it started with Steve. My husband worked with an engineer (who has passed away) who used to work at Apple in Cupertino. He liked his time there but it was too stressful an environment to work at indefinitely. And this was the opinion of a true gentleman with an excellent work ethic, not some whiner. I get the impression people don't retire from Apple, they burn out of it, especially in Steve's era. It sounded rather harrowing.
You are right. Apple is under no obligation to give this crappy t-shirt. But if you want to continue to be known as a premier company to work for in the world and when you send its employees communication thanking them indicating that Apple could not have done it without them and that its most important asset is its employees, then yes you need to do more than just give a t-shirt because a t-shirt is a slap in the face.
They're GIFTS.
If they handed these out in place of yearly bonuses (for employees who get those), then I could see the furor, but these are GIFTS.
Come on. They're not obliged to give out lavish gifts and while it might not seem like it based on retail pricing, I would imagine a t-shirt plus a print copy of their credo cost them as much as those Beats they gave out.
Eh... at least they GIVE gifts. Many corporations don't.
If they handed these out in place of yearly bonuses (for employees who get those), then I could see the furor, but these are GIFTS.
Come on. They're not obliged to give out lavish gifts and while it might not seem like it based on retail pricing, I would imagine a t-shirt plus a print copy of their credo cost them as much as those Beats they gave out.
Eh... at least they GIVE gifts. Many corporations don't.
Well yeah, I suppose you're right.
But they're kind-of self-serving gifts. A good rule when choosing a gift for someone is to think "would I be over the moon to receive this?". Not sure Tim would be over the moon to get a cardboard corporate credo and another corporate t-shirt. Like grumpymom stated earlier, these are more appropriate to be given out to new employees when they arrive: A page from the corporate handbook and some corporate-themed clothing.
Maybe some AirPods would've hit the mark better? It would've been an unambiguous way to demonstrate the exceptionalism that verse 4 of the credo vacuously blathers on about:
Of course, it's too late for that now.
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Well....first of all I really feel a little uncomfortable when reading this credo. Sounds just like it had been written by some sect leader(s) ... oh wait 
Seriously though I think that it is always nice of a company to give their employees christmas gifts but when it is a wealthy company like Apple it should have really been something like @Arran has mentioned (in his post above mine), namely AirPods. (Probably not the best idea though because 6 weeks delivery time)
To sum it up, although it's nice of Apple to give gifts to their employees, it should really be something more than just a little fanboy t-shirt and an (almost) high quality piece of paper with some weird text on it.
Seriously though I think that it is always nice of a company to give their employees christmas gifts but when it is a wealthy company like Apple it should have really been something like @Arran has mentioned (in his post above mine), namely AirPods. (Probably not the best idea though because 6 weeks delivery time
)To sum it up, although it's nice of Apple to give gifts to their employees, it should really be something more than just a little fanboy t-shirt and an (almost) high quality piece of paper with some weird text on it.
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Or if you really feel insulted as an Apple employee you can quit.
The company is not obligated to do anything. There is nothing wrong with reminding its employees attitude, dedication, customer focus is important at this time of year.
Most profitable company on Earth and the employees get an awful t-shirt that looks like a prolapsed butthole. Nice Apple.
I know I'd have enjoyed the t-shirt and would likely have not given a damn about the printed credo, but this might mean more to some of the corporate HQ employees than we know. Hard to say what talks there have been like lately.
Still, I would totally have been on board with the AirPods and let's face it, they are the only NEW product Apple has released this year.
I'd rather get a subscription to the jelly of the month club.
So employees that aren't allowed to have lunch are sentenced to be happy campers now ?
If Angela Ahrendts indeed aims to give more than she takes (at 25 mio/yearly), may I suggest Her Dandyness to allow her employees the dry bread to stay alive before she unloads her Poems of Emptyness into their empty stomachs. As every undergrad student could teach both herself and those ludicrous VPs around her, diversity, environment, and other higher perspectives go limp as elementary life conditions are not met (Maslow: elementary food goes before clothing)
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