I hope with your attitude you aren't in a leadership role. You are spot on suggesting staff should not expect gifts. However the "there's the door" attitude may make a manager feel self-important but all that happens is you get the same back.....disengaged staff and poor performance.
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Apple Gifts Employees With T-Shirt and Printed Credo for the Holidays
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It couldn't really care less about that T-shirt, but that TEXT...jesus...it really is bloody awful.
It's like it was written as a parody of Apple. So many words and so little substance.
I like Apple's products (and have bought many of them over the years), but this kind of mantra just sounds so forced.
It's almost like propaganda...are the employees forced to recite this **** every day at the start of work in order to prove their allegiance to the all-powerful Apple?
It's like it was written as a parody of Apple. So many words and so little substance.
I like Apple's products (and have bought many of them over the years), but this kind of mantra just sounds so forced.
It's almost like propaganda...are the employees forced to recite this **** every day at the start of work in order to prove their allegiance to the all-powerful Apple?
You forgot to mention the small print on those cards:
"LMAO
Tim"
"LMAO
Tim"
Explanation from Angela - for the less heavenly textually gifted:
You are here to enrich lives (=> but when it comes to getting absurdly rich, it's all about me)
To help dreamers become doers (=> when I dream, I made sure you have lots to do)
to help passion expand human potential (running like crazy to achieve my job which may take a few 100.000 years)
to do the best work of our lives (I've actually never done anything else in my single life, so I know the all alternatives for you)
We give more than we take (well, you giveth and I haveth to take)
From the planet (which we have to milk - to feed ourselves)
to the person beside us (ditto)
We become a place to belong (so better not walk out before I ask you)
where everyone is welcome (especially customers, the rest is fixed cost)
Everyone (as long as we keep margins intact)
We draw strength from our differences (that's why you can't reach my salary level)
From background and perspective (but tomorrow is the same as today)
to collaboration and debate (anything but my compensation)
We are open (except for internal issues - in fact we're the most secretive company in the world)
We redefine expectations (that drive your targets)
First for ourselves, then for the world (note the sequence)
Because we're a little crazy (in fact, we're lunatic moneymakers)
Because "good enough" isn't (we're insatiable, except for salaries)
Because what we do says who we are (leaving out what doesn't fit the Christmas idea)
We find courage (whereas there is ample reason to slap my face)
To try and to fail (oh please wear something less ugly when entering our AppleStore)
to learn and to grow (sorry, T-shirt had to be obese-proof)
to figure out what's next (same T-shirt next year, design may be different)
to imagine the unimaginable (e.g. you collected all designs over the years)
to do it all over again tomorrow (then we will start the same design cycle over again)
...so wear something less ugly when entering our AppleStore
You are here to enrich lives (=> but when it comes to getting absurdly rich, it's all about me)
To help dreamers become doers (=> when I dream, I made sure you have lots to do)
to help passion expand human potential (running like crazy to achieve my job which may take a few 100.000 years)
to do the best work of our lives (I've actually never done anything else in my single life, so I know the all alternatives for you)
We give more than we take (well, you giveth and I haveth to take)
From the planet (which we have to milk - to feed ourselves)
to the person beside us (ditto)
We become a place to belong (so better not walk out before I ask you)
where everyone is welcome (especially customers, the rest is fixed cost)
Everyone (as long as we keep margins intact)
We draw strength from our differences (that's why you can't reach my salary level)
From background and perspective (but tomorrow is the same as today)
to collaboration and debate (anything but my compensation)
We are open (except for internal issues - in fact we're the most secretive company in the world)
We redefine expectations (that drive your targets)
First for ourselves, then for the world (note the sequence)
Because we're a little crazy (in fact, we're lunatic moneymakers)
Because "good enough" isn't (we're insatiable, except for salaries)
Because what we do says who we are (leaving out what doesn't fit the Christmas idea)
We find courage (whereas there is ample reason to slap my face)
To try and to fail (oh please wear something less ugly when entering our AppleStore)
to learn and to grow (sorry, T-shirt had to be obese-proof)
to figure out what's next (same T-shirt next year, design may be different)
to imagine the unimaginable (e.g. you collected all designs over the years)
to do it all over again tomorrow (then we will start the same design cycle over again)
...so wear something less ugly when entering our AppleStore
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We Don't Know What Our Credo Means Or Claims - What We Do Know Is - Bullshine Baffles Brains
Now Put These Tacky T-Shirts On And Get Out There And SELL SELL SELL!
"God Bless Us Every One"- Tiny Tim
Now Put These Tacky T-Shirts On And Get Out There And SELL SELL SELL!
"God Bless Us Every One"- Tiny Tim
The all seeing eye. The forbidden fruit is showing its true colours.
Yeah. The shirt is cool in a [spiky-jagged-butthole-within-a-spiky-jagged-butthole] sorta way. But the card and text really is soft and shapeless, like a Regulan bloodworm.
God I love Apple's pretentious credo. It's such ridiculous garbage and it's a wonder if anyone there actually believes it. 'We give more than we take'...hmm, like over charging for crappy products?
The t-shirt is good. But it would be nice of Apple to have given an iTunes voucher to their staff as well. A company worth this much could afford at the very least a $20 card for all.
The printed copy of the company's credo is a waste of paper and resources. It could have been given as an iBook instead.
That's BS.
The printed credo is taking MORE from the planet than giving.
The printed copy of the company's credo is a waste of paper and resources. It could have been given as an iBook instead.
"AT OUR BEST
We give more than we take.
From the planet,"
We give more than we take.
From the planet,"
That's BS.
The printed credo is taking MORE from the planet than giving.
I do feel bad for all the Apple Retail employees who are going to die seven days after receiving their shirts.
hehehe nice!
I remember the first time an employer gave me the middle finger disguised as a slap on the back. I was working for Marriott running the front desk of a full service. We busted our butts during peak season to meet or beat all of our occupancy forecasts AND managed to pull on the second highest QA scores in our entire region. What did I and my staff get as a thanks? Some crummy ball point pens and a form letter from the office of the CEO. I was so pissed I took 400 bucks from petty cash and had the local steak house cater a huge thank you party for my staff. When regional gave me flak over it, I told her that it was the very least the very best people I've ever worked with deserved.
These shirts are a ball point pen for a staff that deserves a steak dinner. Next time I stop by an Apple Store, I'll be sure to double thank anyone who helps me.
These shirts are a ball point pen for a staff that deserves a steak dinner. Next time I stop by an Apple Store, I'll be sure to double thank anyone who helps me.
You can keep on trying to deflect it, but the claim that there were millions of other people who could work for Apple is just factually wrong and stupid.
For a company of Apple "size", that's pretty cheap. And compared to last year gifts, that's even cheaper!
I would laugh him out. If money isn't everything, why does a replacement EarPod cost $69? Why do people have to pay for solving Touch Disease? Why do people have to pay hundreds for iPhone and thousands for a Mac? Why does Apple keep praising sales and making billions? It's just SO hypocritical from a guy like him. Oh wait. He is a hypocrite, actually..
Hey, hey, hey! Whoa there cowboy! You think those new Gulfstreams and 4th vacation homes are just going to pay for themselves? Pick up a Robb Report once in awhile and look at those prices for the private islands. C'MON!!!!
Come on people, this is the perfect gift.
As you know, most apple staff already own Apple tech (mac, watch, iPhone) Tim and Angela didn't want waste any high price tech by giving them stuff they 'might' already have. You can't have enough t-shirts.
In effect, they are saving the planet.
I say Give them an award!
As you know, most apple staff already own Apple tech (mac, watch, iPhone) Tim and Angela didn't want waste any high price tech by giving them stuff they 'might' already have. You can't have enough t-shirts.
In effect, they are saving the planet.
I say Give them an award!
I'm unsure if I'm amazed that there are posters here that are upset that people are mocking this "gift" or not. Sure, no one should feel entitled to a gift. Sure, employees get paid for there jobs, and there are far worse retail jobs, so you could say Apple retail employees are "lucky." But especially in this era of "ho hum" updates Apple retail employees are charged with the task of keeping customers impressed by the Apple brand. The products really don't "wow" by themselves anymore. So in that vein, getting a rather ugly self-serving corporate t-shirt doesn't in any way say "we appreciate you," which is what a holiday gift to employees is suppose to say. I doubt it helps morale either.
Tim Cook's total benefit package is in the hundreds of millions. This year he will receive about $10m in $ alone. Other Apple execs make even more. Now let's take inventory at what Cook and co. have accomplished in the past 6 years - they have depreciated Macs, iPad and iPhone sales have dipped, AppleTV is the most expensive, least impressive streamer (no 4K for $199), HomeKit trails other home automation hubs and Siri is behind other voice controls systems. Even worse, Siri integration and capabilities differs on iOS, tvOS, and OS X. Design is lazy - something as simple as the Apple Pencil has a unimaginative, easy to lose cap, it charges in a way that is awkward, and there is no integrated area to store it.
Despite this TC says AW is selling like gangbusters. iPhone 7, a run-away-hit. Apple apologists here keep telling us the new MBP is selling "like hotcakes." OK. If that is true then why wouldn't Apple want to celebrate its landmark year of sales with retail employees?
So, yeah, if I were an Apple retail employee I'd be a bit off put by this "gift." Apple might as well just donated to the Human Fund in the name of each employee. Tim Cook has shown his true bean counter nature here.
Tim Cook's total benefit package is in the hundreds of millions. This year he will receive about $10m in $ alone. Other Apple execs make even more. Now let's take inventory at what Cook and co. have accomplished in the past 6 years - they have depreciated Macs, iPad and iPhone sales have dipped, AppleTV is the most expensive, least impressive streamer (no 4K for $199), HomeKit trails other home automation hubs and Siri is behind other voice controls systems. Even worse, Siri integration and capabilities differs on iOS, tvOS, and OS X. Design is lazy - something as simple as the Apple Pencil has a unimaginative, easy to lose cap, it charges in a way that is awkward, and there is no integrated area to store it.
Despite this TC says AW is selling like gangbusters. iPhone 7, a run-away-hit. Apple apologists here keep telling us the new MBP is selling "like hotcakes." OK. If that is true then why wouldn't Apple want to celebrate its landmark year of sales with retail employees?
So, yeah, if I were an Apple retail employee I'd be a bit off put by this "gift." Apple might as well just donated to the Human Fund in the name of each employee. Tim Cook has shown his true bean counter nature here.
And the pompous, don't forget the pompous. Still, nice bit of card.
The real problem is that Microsoft used to look like the company with substandard product, that was bereft of new ideas and was sitting on its market position expecting it to last forever.
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I use to be an apple employee. The only folks that get cash bonuses are sr managers. The rest get crap. They really don't care about their employees as much as everyone thinks. When I was there they had about 45,000 retail employees, hard to care for them all. The t-shirt is better then the water bottle. they do not mandate one wear the shirt. All the employees would rather a cash xmas bonus but remember this is still a retail store...
And how exactly would an age restriction do anything? There are grown adults on here that are just as naïve. Everyone has an opinion on here and there is no filter that can truly weed out every comment you don't agree with. Either you ignore the obvious or contribute. In your case, it seems a spoiled "Brats" comment doesn't assist in your request or for the better of the article. And I'm not singling you out, but your post really doesn't take into consideration in what you believe.
T-shirt would make a great wick for a Molotov cocktail. Just sayin