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Apple Launches 'Global Volunteer Program' to Encourage Employees to Volunteer in Local Communities
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Don't confuse PR tactics with actual customer service, it's just word-of-mouth publicity.
Wow.. Way to see a non-existant business Opportunity there bud! I am not denying you enthusiasm or that Rockets are awesome. Or your ability to sell them. But I Seriously don't see it as an important social investment. Caring for the Elderly or less abledm. Or Homelessness or even Loneliness but Blowing up things ( ok, perhaps blowing things Upwards ) is at best a pastime, at worst an unhealthy obsession with explosives... Not a charitable endeavour!?
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Mine doesn't. Well it does, kinda. If I give money they will match it, but they won't do anything for matching my time. I don't have money to donate, but I spend 20 to 30 hours a week working there.
Apple joins celebrities who feel guilty over the untold millions they earn by making it public their donations or advocating on "your pet charity here."
They should pump money into the communities that make money off of? You mean white suburbs populated by spoiled affluent teenagers?
I'd rather supporting a program of competitive video gaming. Video games improve reflexes, enhance real-time decision making, create social interaction, and prepare our youth for defending our world from potential alien invasion and zombie apocalypse.
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One could "spread" from this? While it is (perhaps) a valid statement, you could have selected a different word that makes the statement more effective in conveying that one can "infer" from this.
"Increase your education."
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Considering what Apple pays them, all of their Chinese labor could be considered volunteers, no?
No, what he means is that Apple is very happy to to take advantage of the police services that keep the robbers away from its stores, the fire services that are on hand should the stores burn down, the people who clean the streets around their stores, the companies that supply the street lighting, the public transport systems that bring people and their employees to their shops, the benefits paid to their workers in the form of tax credits by the UK government when they go on paternity/maternity leave, the fantastic British National Health service that looks after their employees when they are sick etc etc, all paid for by the British tax payer. And Apple doesn't pay back what it owes, preferring to register itself in Luxembourg or Ireland or somewhere so that it's take take take by Apple.
That's what he means
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Amazing...
So, the employer "volunteers" you for a free labor in your community, you work for free, then Apple comes out looking good and takes credit for it... meanwhile, you just got used for profit under a "good samaritan" umbrella. What is more fascinating here is that people see no problem with it, and assume that it is OK for an employer to ask its employees to work for free. This thought alone should raise your eyes brows. What about Apple giving its product away for free to the local communities where it has its stores....? I can go on and on. Anyone with any understanding of free market economics will understand how absurd it is.
So, the employer "volunteers" you for a free labor in your community, you work for free, then Apple comes out looking good and takes credit for it... meanwhile, you just got used for profit under a "good samaritan" umbrella. What is more fascinating here is that people see no problem with it, and assume that it is OK for an employer to ask its employees to work for free. This thought alone should raise your eyes brows. What about Apple giving its product away for free to the local communities where it has its stores....? I can go on and on. Anyone with any understanding of free market economics will understand how absurd it is.
yeah you really want retail staff working on software, sounds like a google open source approach
Incomprehensible? You'd make a great CEO. But I guess you're too busy donating all of your disposable income to charity whilst living in a studio apartment and utilizing public transportation whenever possible. Or do you just write big checks to the IRS instead of charitable organizations?
Will Apple incentivize this "suggested" volunteering? Corporate resources spent to orchestrate this program would be better used to fix the iOS bugs. How about firing employees involved with the program and simply use their once misappropriated, respective salaries and send the funds to the IRS? Right Alith?
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What a misquote. Apple isn't 'volunteering' anyone. It's launching a program to encourage those staff who want to volunteer. In the process, it's creating some discussion and visibility for volunteer programs, so staff who may not have even thought about volunteering before, may now consider it. But it's their choice.
What a cynical spin on this!! Be honest Are you just against volunteering? I remember when I was at uni (many years ago) I did World Vision's 40 Hour Famine, and asked fellow students if they would sponsor me. Most people just say yes or no, but one girl just assumed I was doing it to make myself feel good about myself, and gave me quite the lecture. No matter what you do, there's always a naysayer!
If Apple comes out looking good as you say (assuming a majority of people aren't completely cynical like yourself), for matching an employee's charitable giving (of money or time), that doesn't negate the good work that is being done, and it proves nothing about the motivationby either staff who choose to volunteer, or Apple management.
Your suggestion is indeed absurd, and would undermine Apple's whole business. Straw man much?
Of course you did it for yourself. For without the guise of sponsorship, you'd simply be a beggar. Did you actually go through with it and deny yourself for a whopping brutal 40 hours? How on earth are still alive and able to tell everyone that doesn't know you that you achieved this amazing feat?
Further reinforcing my position, you invoke yourself a total of EIGHT times in one paragraph.
Of course you did it for yourself. For without the guise of sponsorship, you'd simply be a beggar. Did you actually go through with it and deny yourself for a whopping brutal 40 hours? How on earth are still alive and able to tell everyone that doesn't know you that you achieved this amazing feat?
Ah we have another one! I see you only joined today, so Welcome to MacCynics!
I used the first person singular pronoun to recount a story in which I featured? Oh the shame. Perhaps you could illuminate us as to how I (oops, just did it again) might have told the story in a more self-effacing manner?
It doesnt come with strings attached , almost all private charity is with strings attached .
And you point being.....
No one cares what you did you posture yourself to get attention from those you felt compelled to bore with your antics. Simply doing what's right doesn't need gratification, nor do individuals, groups or businesses need to publicize their good deeds. An exercise in narcissism: Look what I/us/we did!! I'm better than you and so are my intentions!! Bravo me!!
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How's that? After you write a check, what are your obligations? At least they don't borrow money then send it to (insert third-world country here). Who borrows with interest for charity, oh wait, the government does in the name of the people. Huzzah!!
Okay. Charity can be fuelled by narcissism, sure. But with all due respect, you don't know me buddy. You don't know what I do, or what motivates me—only one story from over 20 years ago. What makes you think readers will be less bored with your armchair psychology than they are with my anecdote? There's more than one way to puff yourself up, and one of those is to put others down when they try to do good.