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Apple Will Continue to Accept App Store Submissions Throughout Holiday Season
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Oh my gosh, you actually have to use your vacation allowance in order to have days off work? There are a lot of people (hospital, police, fire, etc.) who don't even get the option to have the day off, even if they want to use their vacation allowance. People still get sick, robbed, and have their house catch fire. It's sad, but a fact of life. Be thankful you have the option to take the day off if you want. If you want to be given more paid time off without having to ask for it, find another company to work for.
You can always make more money but you cannot get back more time with your family over the holidays.
In the US, companies used to give paid time off for US Holidays, or if unable to take that time off during that time, they would give extra floating time off. Moving away from that is pro-corporate BS and anti-worker and anti-human decency to want to spend time with your family and not have to worry about work for a change.
Lots of corporate shills in these posts at MacRumors, lol. Didn't expect that!
And yes, perhaps I will find another company to work for. There is a labor shortage, after all. If anything companies should be incentivizing with more time off and better pay. But they're not, thus the shortage.
Well, I’ve been sitting on my next big update until Apple fixes a critical bug at their end… so I’d quite like to release it during this period if they fix it before then. So ‘Apps should be shaken out by the holiday season’ is an absurd oversimplification of the process from someone with little understanding.
Finally because stopping updates even temporarily was ridiculous. This doesn't stop people taking a break, if they want to they will and if they want to continue working then they can as well, no one has a gun to the head forcing them to write apps for god sake. Really don't see a problem with this.
I've seen broken apps that were submitted just before they stopped submissions and one I remember was completely broken as it crashed to the homescreen on startup so that app was completely bloody useless for a long time until the update was released after they started taking submissions again. I've also remember one app submitted a hidden emulator in an app update a long time ago just before submissions closed so that stayed on the app store for as long as possible.
I've seen broken apps that were submitted just before they stopped submissions and one I remember was completely broken as it crashed to the homescreen on startup so that app was completely bloody useless for a long time until the update was released after they started taking submissions again. I've also remember one app submitted a hidden emulator in an app update a long time ago just before submissions closed so that stayed on the app store for as long as possible.
The tech world (in various aspects) works differently than many. In education we make the vast majority of changes when school lets out, and can't sleep when Fall starts up. Many server side folk panic for Black Friday, big streaming events, and product releases (if only the Apple Card bank had cared). The day after Christmas is nuts for online returns and new registrations. Life is different for all. Having the opportunity to work with fewer people in the office was always nice for me.
Not everyone celebrates Christmas you know. For example last week was the Indian festival of Diwali. Guessing Indian workers at Apple would rather take that time off than Christmas.
Those people all get days off too. I know, my mother worked her entire life at a hospital. It just means they don't ALWAYS get the holidays/weekends off. My mom had to cover Christmas a few times over the years, we adjusted and celebrated a day early or late. Same with Thanksgiving. Everyone takes turns working those days AND they get other days off instead.
Bro, he probably meant that for people like non-Christians and non-SantaClaus believers, days between 23rd and 27 may be completely normal, no significance.
10 days???? For the whole year?? This is the kind of vacation I would expect in a third world country. Sorry, what kind of job is this, that they don't let you have more that two weeks of vacation?
Oh well, I shouldn't be surprised, an American friend told me his wife had to go to work right after the birth of their child. And he was not allowed to stay at home with her or they would fire him.
AND they get holiday pay for working those days (my wife is a nurse).
It probably varies per state and per contract, but when my wife was a floor nurse she was getting 2.5x when she worked holidays. Part of that may have been a shift differential, since she would work either evenings or nights - but the money was good.
It varies greatly depending on the job, where you work, etc. There is, unfortunately, very little nationwide protection for workers time of, no mandatory paid leave, etc. Some individual states are better than others and jobs with strong unionization and/or high skill required tend to do better. But unless you are at the executive level or near it, even the best companies lag behind what is common in just about all other countries when it comes to guaranteed leave sadly.