Apple Store Worker Says Staff Routinely Get Death Threats From Customers

[IJ Reilly]

Given it was "one" former employee and as you say, information contradicts itself, shows how much people actually read and analyse the information before accepting it as fact written in stone. I'd argue the majority just read the headline, form an oppion and become keyboard warriors...

Essentially. What this proves is the value of "clickbait" headlines. We can be disappointed by the publications that use them, and for good reason, but nobody should be too puzzled by why we see them so often, when they obviously have the desired affect of manufacturing lengthy, furious debates about things that aren't even true.

 

[MH01]

Essentially. What this proves is the value of "clickbait" headlines. We can be disappointed by the publications that use them, and for good reason, but nobody should be too puzzled by why we see them so often, when they obviously have the desired affect of manufacturing lengthy, furious debates about things that aren't even true.

Very true. Especially when ads revenue driven.

 

[AxoNeuron]

I've read plenty of research by now and most of what I see analyzes the effect in fast food, Starbucks, Dunkin'Don't Eats etc.
Their prices go up (more than 1 %, McDonalds was estimated at 4.3%), but not at the full wage increase equivalent. Reason is that in their calculation labor costs are only part of the overall cost structure.

That is different for small factories, which provide services where almost all work is done by hand.
It is not so easy to just claim no jobs are cut or lost.
Say a worker leaves and you just don't replace her/him. That will not show up as a lost job in any statistic.

It's not an easily solvable issue, but to claim it has almost no effect is not correct.

It doesn't sound like you actually did any research. In fact, it sounds like you did a Google search for "fast food minimum wage increase" and read first line of the first result. I'm not digging at you, it's something everyone does when discussing a subject (like economics) that they don't have a lot of experience in, but it's important not to overstate your case.

More detailed analysis indicates that in reality, every 10% increase in the minimum wage will only raise food prices by 0.58%. Not only that, but nationally, minimum wage increases literally have ZERO negative effects on employment levels.

In fact, most studies find the opposite: boosts in employment levels after a region increases its minimum wage.

My more important point is this: do we as a society even want businesses that can't afford to pay people anything more than a ridiculously low wage? In my opinion, if a business can't afford to pay its workers a livable wage, then that business should close its doors and let a better business model take its place. And that's exactly what happens when a region raises its minimum wage, the economy evolves and moves to a new model where you don't have to pay slave wages to survive.

Source: http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/workingpapers/124-15.pdf

 

[ant69]

Yeah but usually such staff gets paid a better wage.
Only cutting any sales bonuses without raising the wage is not employee friendly.
Apple is greedy and relies a lot on the passion of their staff. Not cool.
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Erm..no, it´s not. At least not more money. It gets more and more popular to demand more spare time instead of another rise once people earn a decent ammount which enables them to pay for everything really important to them.
Btw you cannot calculate people´s worth. They are always worth it.

while you cannot calculate what a person is worth alone - you can calculate what a person is worth to to a company, based on the skillset required to do the job and how replaceable they are and in this case you probably dont have to have a high skillset and are very replaceable.

yes some people are demanding more time but when push comes to shove most people want more money - a perfect example of this is that my wife used to work in HR for a large international accounting firm and is amazing the amount of employees who do not use all their paid time off, and instead wait till they can cash it in. placing more importance on money that time off.

 

[Eraserhead]

while you cannot calculate what a person is worth alone - you can calculate what a person is worth to to a company, based on the skillset required to do the job and how replaceable they are and in this case you probably dont have to have a high skillset and are very replaceable.

yes some people are demanding more time but when push comes to shove most people want more money - a perfect example of this is that my wife used to work in HR for a large international accounting firm and is amazing the amount of employees who do not use all their paid time off, and instead wait till they can cash it in. placing more importance on money that time off.

I don't know anyone who doesn't use their holiday.

 

[ant69]

I don't know anyone who doesn't use their holiday.

I dont think its so common in the UK - likewise when i lived in the uk its not a practice i knew of either, but here in the US and a few European countries its pretty common place.

 

[jnpy!$4g3cwk]

I don't know anyone who doesn't use their holiday.

I dont think its so common in the UK - likewise when i lived in the uk its not a practice i knew of either, but here in the US and a few European countries its pretty common place.

During economic downturns, many people in the U.S. are afraid to take a real summer vacation for fear of getting laid off eventually. Especially people over 50, because age discrimination is so widespread.


EDIT: Source:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/22/travel/u-s-workers-vacation-time/

A new study has found that U.S. workers forfeited $52.4 billion in time-off benefits in 2013 and took less vacation time than at any point in the past four decades.
American workers turned their backs on a total of 169 million days of paid time off, in effect "providing free labor for their employers, at an average of $504 per employee," according to the study.

Titled "All Work and No Pay: The Impact of Forfeited Time Off," the study was conducted by Oxford Economics for the U.S. Travel Association's Travel Effect Initiative, which studies the impact of forgone vacation time.

"Americans are work martyrs," says the U.S. Travel Association. "Tied to the office, they leave more and more paid time off unused each year, forfeiting their earned benefits and, in essence, work for free."

According to the study, in 2013 U.S. employees took an average of 16 days of vacation, compared with an average of 20.3 days as recently as 2000.

"The economic potential of returning to the pre-2000 vacation patterns is massive: annual vacation days taken by U.S. employees would jump 27% (or 768 million days), delivering a $284 billion impact across the entire U.S. economy," according to the travel association.
Based in Washington, the association is a national nonprofit organization representing all components of the travel industry.

Does this describe you?

Productivity and stress management trainer and coach Joe Robinson says the issue is driven by a number of factors.

"One, workers are afraid to take their vacations in the layoff era," Robinson said. "It might mark them as less 'committed' than coworkers.

"It's called defensive overworking. They work long hours and skip vacations to insulate themselves from cutbacks."

That's a good worker, chained to the desk. Well, maybe not.

According to Roger Dow, president and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association, 28% of workers surveyed said they've declined to take earned days off in order to illustrate their dedication to the job.

"They say, 'I don't want to be seen as a slacker,' " Dow said. " 'I want to be seen as someone who is really dedicated.'

"But it does them no good whatsoever. People who take more time off tend to get more raises and promotions."

"It's futile," Robinson agreed. "People who don't take their vacations get laid off just like everyone else."