Wow, Apple takes care of their own employees just as good as they do their customers. NICE.![]()
I think you forgot to put the /s at the end of your sentence.
Wow, Apple takes care of their own employees just as good as they do their customers. NICE.![]()
wow... a WHOLE $150 bucks. lame.
exactly...12+ hours for a company who's on the highest "high" of its life and a whopping $150-taxes?!...about $100 afterward. What a slap in the face...might as well NOT get a bonus.
Apple's pretty serious about making sure customers get first dibs on new products that are in short supply.What a slap in the face...might as well NOT get a bonus. And worse that Apple wouldn't even give out free PRODUCTS that Apple DESIGNS and PRODUCES!
I think you forgot to put the /s at the end of your sentence.
exactly...12+ hours for a company who's on the highest "high" of its life and a whopping $150-taxes?!...about $100 afterward. What a slap in the face...might as well NOT get a bonus. And worse that Apple wouldn't even give out free PRODUCTS that Apple DESIGNS and PRODUCES!...I can bet you that Nokia and Motorola and Erickson employees get free phones all the time.
-Eric
earned wages that are set by said companies.
are you joking? you have a macbook and an iPhone 4 (according to your signature), both luxury Apple products and suddenly $150 means the world to you? i don't know about life in Detroit, but in the real world, $150 is a night out.
Just saddens me seeing a post like this. Talk all the crap you want about Apple not paying "enough" of a bonus that they owe NO ONE, but at least they employee people. Don't forget buddy (while you're on your entitlement train) that people aren't entitled to a job at all. People should be thankful that have a friggin' job rather than sitting around barking that the bonus they received wasn't "enough".![]()
exactly...12+ hours for a company who's on the highest "high" of its life and a whopping $150-taxes?!...about $100 afterward. What a slap in the face...might as well NOT get a bonus. And worse that Apple wouldn't even give out free PRODUCTS that Apple DESIGNS and PRODUCES!...I can bet you that Nokia and Motorola and Erickson employees get free phones all the time.
-Eric
I Understand how some of you would say , "Don't bitch about getting extra money for a very long day , but just an FYI , APPLE SAYS TO IT EMPLOYEES "Were gonna give you 150.00!" and when you get the Check for 80 Bucks, you realize , thats pretty much Apples way of making it sound good! lol, If they really gave a rats azz about there people and how hard they worked that day it would be 150.00 after tax and believe me as a retail General Manager , Thats not enough to deal with todays "Self Entitlement driven customers"
Just my 2Cents
wow... a WHOLE $150 bucks. lame.
Your post makes absolutely zero sense ya know that? So after taxes clear the employee ends up with $150, well how much were they suppose to get in the beginning? Well, let's say Apple says there were getting $300 bonus but after taxes it ends up a miniscule $150, when does it end? Again, you're just another person on here with that horrible ENTITLEMENT attitude and it's not welcome here. A person should be thankful they got a job and if their employer wants to give them as much as a stick of gum as a bonus that employee better damn well accept it with a smile as they should feel lucky to even have a job to get bonuses from. You have a lot of nerve talking about Self Entitlement Driven customers, they are the very ones with entitlement, they are PAYING Apple to pay employees. Customers pay to keep Apple in business.![]()
Incredible that people can complain about this.
150 $ (effectively about 60 to 80 $ if it is pre-tax) is laughable as "bonus". What's really shocking is that Apple makes its employees work for this long. Is this even legal? 12 hrs or longer in one day and non-stop! I doubt it. I give these poor wage slaves the advice to organize and choose wisely a date for a great strike, e.g. the next launch day of iWhatever. This action will discipline their employer to pay them better wages and give them breaks and orderly working hours. If Apple needs more labor on some days, they should hire extra workers. In a wealthy nation like the U.S. with many millions unemployed the maximum permitted working time better should be about 35 hrs per week.
I hope you don't prepare your own taxes. If you are paying the government 2/3 of your wages, then just wow.150 $ (effectively about 60 to 80 $ if it is pre-tax)
I don't understand the negativity?
I hope you don't prepare your own taxes. If you are paying the government 2/3 of your wages, then just wow.
yeah, but then you have to pay the tax on the tax.
I don't understand the negativity?
You're employed to work. You don't 'deserve' to get paid extra because it's a launch. It's your job to do what your employer tells you to do. If I was an employee I'd be thrilled to make an extra $150. Apple DOESN'T need to give them anything but they chose to.
I can't believe some would say "big deal $150" because for some of us every dollar counts and I bet you wouldn't be saying big deal and turning it away if you were getting it in your paycheck.