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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. 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
 
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.

So let me get this straight, you'd rather have Base Salary + Overtime Salary than Base Salary + Overtime Salary + 150$ ?

I am understanding you here ? You'd rather have less money ?
 
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!
Apple's pretty serious about making sure customers get first dibs on new products that are in short supply.

Not only did employees not get a free iPad, they're still not able to buy one with their employee discount because the customer demand is higher than the product supply.
 
I think you forgot to put the /s at the end of your sentence.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

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

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". :rolleyes:
 
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.

I don't know how much Apple employees make per hour, but I am assuming I get paid more than they do and $150 would be a blessing to me. I switched to Apple because of their quality but yes, I did have to save to get a MacBook - which by the way is NOT a luxury product. I could have spent half the money and got another Dell or other piece of junk, but I would likely be about ready to buy another one because it would have went to crap by now. I plan on using this laptop for at least another 2 years so I really didn't spend any more. And for the iPhone I saved for that as well. My contract with Sprint has been up for months now and my iPod got full. I now have a device that is a combination of both. Yes, the iPhone may arguably be a luxury product, but it's the only luxury thing I have.

And where do you go that you can blow $150 in one night? I've only done that twice, and both times it was for very expensive restaurants. I think that for anyone that works for a living, no matter what their wage (or location) $150 is a really nice gesture, especially when it was unexpected. Again, there is nothing lame about it.
 
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". :rolleyes:

I agree with you. It scares me that I have two kids that are going to be growing up with these same type of people.

$150 may not seem like much from a financially successful company like Apple, but multiply that by the number of employees given that bonus across the board - that's no chump change.

I can't think of any other product release that has caused such a hype, but Black Fridays are usually pretty crazy for retail stores. I don't know of any that pay out bonuses for that.

Too many companies out there take the stance that your reward for work quality and ethic is your paycheck - no matter how far above and beyond you go. So when any company gives out a bonus, no matter how big or small, as an appreciative gesture, it gets noticed.

Alright, enough of my soap box.....
 
It's taxed at 42.5% so the Real Money is about 80 Bucks!

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
 
Seriously. Why fault Apple on this? They are not required to give out bonuses, nor were they expected. I have worked retail and during the christmas season for a few years. I worked 12 hours days, 6 days a week for two weeks. We got overtime pay. That is enough. I never expected a bonus and never got one. And I can assure you, we were much busier for the few weeks than Apple was on that one day.

I have a friend who works for AppleCare who was working mandatory overtime over the past few weeks due to call volume. She is not getting a bonus (that she knows of), nor is it expected. She is being paid overtime. That should be plenty. She had been unemployed for over a year, and now she has a great job helping people use a product she loves.

Some of you don't understand how many people out their live. Not everyone has a new car and a giant house. Most of us either drive beaters, take the bus, or carpool. Many live in ****** apartments or, as in my case, forced to live with the in-laws.

You should be happy for what you have, because it may not be there forever.
 
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

Hrm, 100 dollars will buy me a week's worth of food (If I were better at budgeting maybe more). 100 dollars will buy me a helluva lot of iphone apps or itunes songs. 100 dollars will get me halfway towards a new iphone if I sign up for a new contract (well you could get a new iphone just not hte latest model). 100 dollars is 1/12 of the way towards a new macbook pro. Or 1/10 if i just wanted a macbook. 100 dollars will buy me at least a month and a half of gas in my car. Extend that if I use my motorcycle. 100 dollars will pay my cable and internet bill. Or a good chunk of my gas and electric bill. It's 1/5 of my rent. It will buy me 3 month's worth of my super premium cats' food and one month of my super premium dog's food.

yeah, it sure is a slap in the face. Yeah, I'd rather not get it. I mean, how useful can 100 dollars extra that I don't have to work more than I already was be? I'd be better off refusing it.

Oh, and that last part was sarcasm if you can't tell. Oh, and let me add, go work retail sometime. Ask them to give you a 150 dollar bonus for working some extra hours on a busy day and see how long you get laughed at. For some one working retail, that was a really nice bonus. Most places at best would give you that if you managed to sell the most of someting in the district. Maybe if they are really generous you'll only have to beat out everyone in your store. And that's only if it is a program that saves them or makes them a ton of money (like extended warranties. Shoot, Best Buy and Borders just reduces your hours if you don't sell enough. They don't give you bonuses for selling a lot unless you are a manager).
 
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

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.:p
 
They get bonuses! ****, I'm gonna send an application to my apple store! I never get a bonus! And I have have to deal with jerks sometimes, and doing dishes at the end of the night blows.
#cannotwaittograduateuniversity
 
Wow, I was working as a Specialist at an Apple Store on iPhone 3G launch day - you know, the very first day of doing in-store AT&T activations? Remember when the servers went down and customers got pretty irate? All despite Ron Johnson sending out a video just before store opening going all "This is going to be a great day! Everything's going to go smoothly!"

Pretty much everybody in the store worked 12+ hours that day. I worked 7 am to 7 pm, without a single break - as did quite a few of my coworkers. Others worked 6 hours in the morning, then came back for a later shift (the store was open later than usual to accomodate more customers).

You know what Apple did for us after working so long and dealing with uncooperative activation processes and a huge line of annoyed customers?

Absolutely nothing.


So if anyone complains about "only" getting a $150 bonus (before tax or not), they deserve to be fired on the spot.

For reference, at my hourly rate (though it varies by store & position, of course), $150 would have been equal to another 12 hours of work. I would have absolutely loved to receive any sort of bonus, even if it were only an extra hour's pay or a "I survived iPhone 3G launch day" t-shirt.
 
This is just coming out now? I've known about this since 2 weeks prior to launch, I have a few friends that work at various Apple stores around here that worked launch day and they weren't hyped on the time but they were definitely hyped on the pay.
 
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.:p

Considering the 'pink slip' bonuses many have received this week at another well known tech company, $150 + job continuity seems all the more generous.
 
Taxes

As an ex-apple store employee, I can tell u when they give bonuses they make sure the take home amount is the bonus. So they will likely get a bonus of like 210, but the take home is 150.
 
Incredible that people can complain about this.

My complaint is about the bonus-system altogether, in whatever situation it is applied. It is true that a lot of people are over-qualified. But those people need to stand up for the money they deserve and not just take small bonuses. It's the famous carrot and stick game which keeps the employees quiet while they need to work at the boundary of justifiability.

What I want to say is: Enjoy the money but be aware that you lower the expectations of your employer with that.
 
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.
 
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 actually think Apple pays tax on small bonuses for the individuals, but that's beside the point.

Even $80 is very generous for a bonus. Remember, they're still getting paid per hour. The $80 is a nice incentive.

Next, this is legal. Why? Because they weren't forced to keep working. They could have gone and home at their normal contracted hours. The whole point of this bonus is to give an EXTRA reward for choosing to stay on.

So just stop being an idiot.
 
The guy I dealt with already has his phone when I was there. He was a trainer and said he didn't want to work launch day, but they made it so that he would have enough to pay for the phone.

He didn't go into specifics, but it had to be worth it enough to get him to work.

Everyone has there price! LOL
 
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.

+1:)
 
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