Highest inflation in 30 years, sorry that doesn’t strike you as important.
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Apple Giving Many U.S. Retail Employees Raises
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In many cases, yes...sort of. Here's an example: You open a store in Grand Central Terminal, you pay rent for the store to the owner (the MTA), and you also pay a (tiny) percentage of sales as additional rent. That is typical for any mall. When Apple opened in Grand Central, the MTA only charged Apple rent for the space, not the sales percentage part. Th reason was that Apple would bring more people to the terminal just to shop, not just those who go to catch a train.
Sure enough, after Apple opened there, sales in other stores showed a marked increase in their revenue. I'm sure other malls give Apple similar deals.
The last time my union organized, I guess the head of business & operations said that a 3% raise was "unsustainable." At the same time the non-unionized, non-managerial staff in HQ got 8% "market adjustments." The assistant to the head of business & operations got like a 25% "market adjustment."
Don’t worry team blue has assured me the economy has never been better. Inflation totally helps the poor. The western world welcomes totalitarian government. Yay Covid.
Unless the distribution is forced by an entity not controlled by human, I don’t see any chance of this happening.
Dang some of them get paid $24 an hour? That's decent! I guess it depends on where they live of course!
Apple has a long way to go regarding sick days. I get 3 days a month at the university where I work.
Right,… Salt wheels, bloody luxury. When I was a lad, we hadn’t even invented t‘ wheel and just used two sticks to drag our stuff around.
Who generates more income for Apple?
The salesperson may sell $10-20K of products per day, possibly more. That technician isn’t going to collect that much revenue from their repair work. Hell, Apple pushes AppleCare sales as much as anything so if the salesperson is doing their job, the technician may often only be collecting $29-$99 co-payments for many customer visits.
Apple would probably much rather see the customer not fix their device and just buy a replacement. Either way, the salespeople drive the revenue.
…..Considering they get a ~25% discount at $21-ish hourly, they probably can afford iPads more than the average consumer can.
That's great. While there are duds in any workforce, the overwhelming majority of Apple Retail staff have always been polite, professional, and willing to go an extra mile to help.
I'm sure some on here will complain it's too little of a raise, and maybe that's true, but at least they're offering raises. I know a lot of places only offering higher wages to new staff (which of course only encourages old staff to leave).
I'm sure some on here will complain it's too little of a raise, and maybe that's true, but at least they're offering raises. I know a lot of places only offering higher wages to new staff (which of course only encourages old staff to leave).
I get how it works. My employer actually gave me the option between high-deductible with HSA and a more full-featured plan. I took the high deductible. Don't need to be paying for those employees who go to the doctor all the time for minor stuff.
Insurance is for disasters you can't afford, not routine issues. I can afford to pay the $100 or whatever the one time I have a really bad flu... which so far has only happened once in my life. $1000 or so if something terrible happens. Point is I'm not getting a $30K or $1M bill.
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It's one of the most profitable retail store chains ever. It's a pretty stressful job dealing with customers all day. But yeah, most people don't need a college degree to make decent money.
If you think it's such a sweet deal, why not work there yourself?
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Except the problem with that is that if EVERY company increases wages, it's a domino effect, and they will end up charging more for goods and services to offset their rising costs, and we will have even more out of control inflation. The only time that companies can increase wages and not pass that along to the consumer is if their sales volume increases and/or their raw materials costs drop so that the higher cost of wages is offset by other cost savings or increase revenue.
Inflation baby! I cannot wait until we are all millionaires. Or if we are really really unlucky all trillionaires.
By 'After high school job' I'm referring to jobs that you can get after high school without having to get even the basic of degrees. Which is what an Apple retail job is, many might have degrees, and might need one to be competitive. But its not a requirement to work at Apple retail.
I worked at many 'after high school jobs' before I was able to afford my own college, including the military, where I was certified to work on F-15s by the FAA, trust me when I tell you its a "frustrating and challenging workplace". BTW, the military has a starting pay around $11 an hour.
I was in no way mocking the "other workers right" (which $24 an hour isn't a right), just saying that I would have loved to been paid that much.
not to derail, but it's really hard to compare the starting pay of the military where you are getting free room and food when you are making $11/hr.
Anyone missing 3 days a month sick should no longer have that job.