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Apple Gifts Employees With T-Shirt and Printed Credo for the Holidays
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One Christmas I received the Apple blanket as a gift, I felt exactly the same as some members here (whether or not they worked for Apple in the past too) - I was insulted as I had sales of £60,000 for a week. I distinctly remember leaving my shift and giving it to the nearest homeless person. I left the job a month later. I'd rather have got nothing.
What a load of ****ing meaningless corporate bollocks.
Steve must be on turbo spin by now.
Steve must be on turbo spin by now.
No its not standard for RETAIL employees. Name ONE just ONE retail company that does all these things? Crickets....Giving RETAIL employees thousands of dollars in RSU's is unheard of. Its never been done. What makes you think I haven't spent an hour in an Apple Store? I do know of Geniuses that make $75+k and drive 6 figure cars...thats not typical retail...If Apple Retail was soooo horrible and paid soooo bad, then why are people beating the doors down to work there?
Ha ha ha.. a t-shirt, how cheap.. i'm not saying Apple has to give a $500 gift, but a t-shirt is an insult
I guess this is why they say Millennials think they are owed something...lol...grow up. Its a job. Who expects a Christmas gift from their job? You don't like it...theres the door. Find another place to work. Oh and give back all the perks and free stuff like stocks and discounts you took gladly while you worked there. Your job owes you nothing but your paycheck. ANYTHING you get in addition to that you could be happy and grateful. Do you turn your nose up at your Aunt when she gives you dress socks? Or Your little brother that drew a picture for you because he doesn't have money? Geez....Christmas isn't about taking from everyone and criticizing when you don't like the gift. Apple gives away THOUSANDS of iPads to inner city schools so those kids will be able to have the latest technology and no one says a word, they give away tshirts to employees as a thank you during the holiday season IN ADDITION to other things they got in the last few months and now they are more evil than Hitler...lol...
Apple literally has hundreds of billions of dollars in the bank, and this is the best they can do?
I am so glad I don't work for them. Yuletide obviously means nothing in Cupertino.
I am so glad I don't work for them. Yuletide obviously means nothing in Cupertino.
I'm in my mid-40s and see this as nothing but a cheap afterthought. It's the corporate equivalent of buying gifts at a service station. If you don't want to bother, don't bother. But giving your employees something so poor is insulting. It's worse than giving them nothing.
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Realiscislly the real story here is it basically just being another year when random anonymous internet users get judgmental over a gift that a company gave to its employees.
No - the problem is that a t-shirt like this rarely fits well (and is therefore wasteful to produce if people aren't going to wear it) and the message is vomit inducing feel-good meaningless trite claptrap.
A good cup of <insert hot beverage> would have been preferable, cheaper and just better received.
You should apply. I meant do their job for an hour . Sound like it's your dream job , 6 figure cars...it's like a magical paradise.
My view if it is a tough slog, with low wages and a part time job that gets you through until you move on . I'm yet to meet an Apple Store employee that sees it as such as awesome dream job like you sell it to be honest . So explain why there is such a high turnover rate?
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Apple really likes to reinforce that whole "working for Apple Retail and working for Apple are two different things", huh?
Gotta make sure people know their place. /s
My employer (small business, <100 employees) generally gives everyone $100 checks. That's actually pretty poor compared to the bonuses I got at my previous job, but compared to this they look damn generous.
Gotta make sure people know their place. /s
My employer (small business, <100 employees) generally gives everyone $100 checks. That's actually pretty poor compared to the bonuses I got at my previous job, but compared to this they look damn generous.
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You will find many posters here are not millennials and have enough pride to accept nothing . It's actually about respect .
Though it's a personal preference . Some may really like this jesture . I'm not retail.
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(voice-over) "Every year at Christmas we face the same dilemma over and over again. We, at Apple, have thought long and very, very, very HARD about this and we've come up with the most subtle solution yet. We have decided to print a logoin a long and very, very difficult process on an extremely cheap looking T-Shirt, which was hand-woven by poor children in some very, very poor country. The logo itself represents the most delicate hand-drawings we have ever created, done on a sketch book by five-year old Dylan Apple Steve Thomas. It represents the ultimate logo in simplicity and stupidity, that only a five-year old can understand. Then we decided that this was not enough, and we, at Apple, have decided to use our most poetic skills to create a poem. And it was done in a painstaking and long-winding process, causing thousands and thousands of emails between Tim and Tim. It is in itself a work... of art. I guess. Literature and the Arts are at the very heart of Apple and that is why we also decided to sing this poem and dedicate it to our employees who can't read. You can download it für 1 Dollar at the iTunes store in India. We, at Apple, give our hearts and our dedication to the continued excellence of number crunching and getting cheaper day by day. We, at Apple, wish us a very, very merry Christmas. Happy bonuses for us at Apple HQ."
You mean back when the company was called "Apple Computers"? Yeah, I remember the days when they wowed me with technological innovation, not crappy self-adulation.
Emojis and new watch straps aren't cutting edge innovation !?!?!
And another year where established users judge and apologise on behalf said company. Circle of life on MR where hypocrisy is a core value
Mostly - but i think it's more telling what the unfocused meaningless pandering and meandering message that's delivered. It's not simple, it's hardly effective, it's all over the place and it's not actionable. I think it reflects 100% the type of company that Apple is becoming.
But Apple under TC is a lot of hot air whilst doing the exact opposite of what they profess.
"Privacy". Actual: weaken iTunes backup, join prism, forget SIP on new computers, make iMessage weak by design, turn-over data without warrants, Siri (=Cortana)
"Green". Actual: make stuff un-upgradable, un-openable and offer minor upgrades and dongles.
"Pro". Actual: Let the Mac Pro languish (well first make it in a form-factor that no working pros actually like, make it not internally upgradable), Macbook Pros - let them languish, then add Emojibar whilst removing battery life and ports that professionals might like to use during their day-jobs. Kill all pro level software (don't spin it off, just kill it / neuter it)
MR should consider an age restriction.
It's sad, what used to be a forum for tech literate, is now playground for spoiled "brats".
It's sad, what used to be a forum for tech literate, is now playground for spoiled "brats".