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.
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Apple Taking Extra Time Off at Thanksgiving in Recognition of Year's Success
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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.
criticizing tim cook???!
you guys DO KNOW that he is the guy that locked up all the supply chains to the point that no other companies can get the hardware rate that apple gets from suppliers? He is an exceptionally shrewd man. Job's Strongly Endorsed him to become the new CEO for a reason. All of you that insult Cook are completley disrespecting Steve Jobs' sense of Brilliance. You cant diss Cook without dissing Jobs. BTW stocks up today at AAPL. Tim is doing a Splendid job as Ceo and he has been for a while. i know when steve came back from his first sick leave he was like "it costs how much to get components for the ipad?........ Tim you are a genius"
you guys DO KNOW that he is the guy that locked up all the supply chains to the point that no other companies can get the hardware rate that apple gets from suppliers? He is an exceptionally shrewd man. Job's Strongly Endorsed him to become the new CEO for a reason. All of you that insult Cook are completley disrespecting Steve Jobs' sense of Brilliance. You cant diss Cook without dissing Jobs. BTW stocks up today at AAPL. Tim is doing a Splendid job as Ceo and he has been for a while. i know when steve came back from his first sick leave he was like "it costs how much to get components for the ipad?........ Tim you are a genius"
A CNN survey about anything, such as this or "best places to live" etc., are NOT FACTS, just a few opinions. Please refrain from calling them facts.
I'm sure that folks at Apple in charge of retail are on call, but otherwise, this is an acknowledgement of the push that engineering especially and everyone else made to meet the iPhone 4S and iOS5 launches.
As for retail, all of them know that they are an operation separate from Apple Headquarters.
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
Kudos To All Apple Employees!!!!
Thank you for giving us cutting edge tech innovation and pushing the envelope on human/computer usability.
KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!!
Thank you for giving us cutting edge tech innovation and pushing the envelope on human/computer usability.
KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!!
Let's hope that a week without Apple's contribution to GDP doesn't reclassify this "economic downturn" as a depression.
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Off the cuff assumption: could this be an intraweb for Apple employees only?
Regarding Cook me thinks it's time we stop needing him fill Jobs' shoes cause he and nobody else will. While Jobs' spirit and vision are present Cook has to instill his style and from we've seen he's doing a good job. None of us knows if Jobs too was magnanimous towards Apple employeses in his own way.
Off the cuff assumption: could this be an intraweb for Apple employees only?
Regarding Cook me thinks it's time we stop needing him fill Jobs' shoes cause he and nobody else will. While Jobs' spirit and vision are present Cook has to instill his style and from we've seen he's doing a good job. None of us knows if Jobs too was magnanimous towards Apple employeses in his own way.
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.
The same as Jobs' dad - someone who Jobs would not recognize, even to his death, since he gave up Steve for adoption.
This does not mean he was not a family person, just not a family person to an ex-girlfriend, and his ex's daughter. He was a typical 20-something back then. People change. He was not a family person in his 20s, but he was in his 40s and 50s.
I guess you'll tell me Hitler was cute too, because he was when he was 2, and ignore all the rest.
In what world is your daughter not family? I'm seeing a lot of very rude things said here, can we please have the mods remove some of the idiotic statements here?
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The beginning of the end. Steve would never do this. If it was up to him, they'd work Christmas and Thanksgiving.
I'm going to assume you are not a business owner. Of course paid time off changes productivity; by definition, you're not doing your job when you're not there, that's a loss of that productivity. And if you're saying that you can be gone for 6-8 weeks and it makes no difference, that's typically because your department divides up your workload among your co-workers. Surely you can see that management might view that as possible case of over-staffing in that department?
Everybody likes vacation, and the more the better. I'm happy for the Apple employees, well deserved. But it's a question of whether a business, and the market segment in which they operate, can absorb or accommodate that loss in cost-revenue structures; not all of them can. It's not like that "Paid" part of PTO comes free.
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Thanks for that! It would be quite something for an heir to Steve to be actively working at Apple to extend the Jobs legacy.
It's interesting that Steve's youngest daughter (and granddaughter) and Bill's (Gates) son are just about the same age. If ever there would be a wedding of "Royalty" in the tech world, that would be it.
I've always assumed that once Steve acknowledged Lisa as his daughter, that he treated her no differently than his children with Laurene. I hope that has been the case.
It's their intranet.
Also this is NOT new. They have been doing this for a couple of years if not more.
All full time retail staff gets 3 bonus days off between Jan 1 and March 31st of their 'thanksgiving'
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IF Apple ran the factories they might. But Apple doesn't. So that decision is in someone else's hands.
I knew that I'd get thumbs down from either people with blinkered visions or 'Well mine's alright' attitude who cannot face facts... rolls eyes
I'm sure that you are aware that the folks that are talking of trouble are a vast minority every time. To the tune of being as little as 0.01% in some cases. Even at the biggest it probably isn't more than 2-3%
Also, if people like Evernote haven't bothered to update their app or didn't do it properly, that isn't Apple's fault
You are aware that this only applies to execs, right? The "little" people in the trenches still have to work.
Steve would be proud. Because the whole week off thing was his creation a few years ago and he would want Tim to continue it.
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which in many ways is more running the company than Steve did.
Steve was more of the creative mind that set up the main thrust of things and the broad strokes of the smaller details. People like Jonny and Scott took those strokes and figured out how to make them happen and what was needed to make them happen. Tim handled getting them those things. Phil sorted out how to sell it and Ron (and his successors) handled the literal selling at the stores.
In the end, if Tim hadn't been so good at his job, the rest of them wouldn't have been able to do theirs