I think it's great. Time off as a bonus/reward.
Also, it's ONLY three days. Not sure why it invited this much outrage.
Also, it's ONLY three days. Not sure why it invited this much outrage.
Jobs has a daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs (born 1978), from his relationship with Bay Area painter Chrisann Brennan. For two years, she raised their daughter on welfare while Jobs denied paternity by claiming he was sterile; he later acknowledged Lisa as his daughter.
His son is also graduated. Nothing with Apple. Poor relations. But Jobs still know how to run company, not Cook. Sorry.
Apple isn't even listed in the top 100 places to work according to CNN Money. Google and MS are. There are other tech companies in the top 100 as well. Please check out the facts before blindly believing something.
It's a smart move, but it could've been smarter. Giving corporate employees a week off with pay at the same time that hourly retail employees are the busiest and working the hardest they will be all year (other than big product launch days) is kind of poor timing.
His son is twenty and presumably in college. His daughter lived with his family as a teenager and he paid her way through school (Harvard). She now resides in Europe. He has a teen daughter about 16 years old, and a younger daughter 13.
Presumably they wouldn't work for Apple because all of them are in school, and two of them are minors.
As for your take on Tim not being able to run the company; Tim ran the company all of the times that Steve was in medical treatment. Moreover, Tim was the person behind the creation of the world's premier supply chain, and he was handpicked to succeed Steve.
Jobs has a daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs (born 1978), from his relationship with Bay Area painter Chrisann Brennan. For two years, she raised their daughter on welfare while Jobs denied paternity by claiming he was sterile; he later acknowledged Lisa as his daughter.
Ummm... that daughter is not in his FAMILY. This daughter was born before he was married and had 3 other kids. This is completely different.
What?
Mr. Jobs leaves us, and Tim Cook is already taking time off?
What baout shutting down the store and giving retail employees paid time off?...not so much, huh.....
What about shutting down the store on the day after Mr. Jobs death for his recognition? not so much, huh
But yuo go ahead and take your vacation Mr. Cook.
I find it amusing that there's many people who are highly critical of this move, yet their opinions and views clearly indicate that they are not a part of the professional workforce.
PTO is common, and Apple is still considered quite stingy in this regard. Compared to many European countries, US companies give far less vacation. The amount of PTO != a change in productivity. Anyone who has a job knows this to be true... it's just a nice gesture that helps to mitigate stress and anecdotally improves performance, however regardless of the time off given, the performance standards aren't likely to change.
All of the comments on work ethic are really quite priceless... how many of you are actually employed in a corporate environment? One has to question...
Lisa has a child of her own too, I think around the same age as Steve's youngest daughter. We were good neighbours of the Jobs' in Old Palo Alto before we moved to the UK and often saw Lisa visiting. Her child a.k.a. Steve's grandchild has a keen interest in Apple when I spoke to Lisa once around 18 months ago. Clearly, Apple isnt a monarchy but i thought that might be interesting for you to know
Is no one else curious about "AppleWeb"?
I wonder if the factory workers are going to get some paid time-off.
Sorry up to burst the bubble, but has anybody typed in a google search for 'trouble with iOS5?!'
If:
1. mucking around existing loyal customers.
2. Making some users upgrade to a new operating system before they can help.
3. or charging them £35 for apple care before they'll speak to you if you're out of warranty
4. Crashing or locking you out of iTunes accounts
5. Bricking iPhones/iPads/iPod Touches.
6. If it's not bricked then making the iPad 1 the latest upgrade victim and running sluggishly, with jolts and generally unresponsive... I thought that you'd learned your lesson with the 3G and iOS3... People don't run out and buy newer they get very p*&^^%d off!
7. Allowing windows 8 users to totally integrate iCloud whilst isolating snow leopard.
8. The attractive yet sluggish monster that is Aperture
9. the toys with no substance in Lion, that you'll not use a lot once you've lived with it a while, but lost all those cool little apps that saved you so much time that won't work any more...
10. Changing Safari in iOS5 iPad so that all the 'clippers' for Evernote & Springpad no longer work making you email blog subjects and items to yourself, therefore going back to dark ages of the digital times
11. The Final Cut Pro debacle?!
... is good then yes, give yourselves a pat on the back... you've nearly lowered yourselves to windows standards... and all more or less in the space of a month
Reality hurts
Signed an upset Fanboy
Sorry up to burst the bubble, but has anybody typed in a google search for 'trouble with iOS5?!'
Sorry up to burst the bubble, but has anybody typed in a google search for 'trouble with iOS5?!'
There are some REALLY strange comments in this thread? People are mad that Apple is giving paid time off? I applaud that gesture, its good for moral. Happy workers will be more productive... its proven.
Steve Jobs is screaming from his grave--"Get Back To Work!!". If this continues,
As for your take on Tim not being able to run the company; Tim ran the company all of the times that Steve was in medical treatment. Moreover, Tim was the person behind the creation of the world's premier supply chain,
What?
Mr. Jobs leaves us, and Tim Cook is already taking time off?
What baout shutting down the store and giving retail employees paid time off?...not so much, huh.....
What about shutting down the store on the day after Mr. Jobs death for his recognition? not so much, huh
But yuo go ahead and take your vacation Mr. Cook.