Sounds like you not only haven't worked retail for the past several decades (if at all), but also didn't pay attention when the Supreme Court addressed this very issue recently as well and UNANIMOUSLY AGREED that people aren't entitled to get paid for this time.
This is the same supreme court that also ruled that corporations should be legally considered to be people, so they can flood the political system with as much bribe money as they like. So forgive me if I don't have a whole lot of respect for this this particular institution.
There are die-hards out there who will defend Apple to their last dying breath because of a misplaced sense of loyalty. Apple isn't a person or a personality, it's a group of wealthy investors who hire people to extract every last dime they can from their business. They're ruthless about it because of sheer greed. This is just one example of that penny-pinching mentality gone a bit too far. I don't expect Apple to have morals, but the
courts should enforce morality, that is their role in our system. But today, the courts are just an extension of corporate America.
So Apple's a bad retailer for using the same procedures in their stores that every other retailer does?
Umm...no, they're a bad employer because its a
greedy and stupid policy not to pay employees for their time. If Apple is going to act like it's some amazing company to work for, a company that is so much greater than the rest of the retail herd, then they should start acting like it.
So you want the store to pay your daughter more than the others who work there because she made plans after work which have absolutely nothing to do with the store's function or her job.
Why does your kid deserve more money because she chose to bring a personal bag into a retail workplace? Is she a princess or somehow special? Should everyone else ALSO stay on the clock and be forced to hang out to accommodate your daughter's time waiting because SHE decided that she just HAD to bring in her bag to accommodate HER plans?
Because the
employer is forcing the employee to spend a significant amount of time to wait to be searched. A company as big as Apple can afford to pay those extra few minutes. If they won't bother to increase the security of the stores (such as making sure every square inch of the store is covered by an HD security camera), then it's their CHOICE to search employee possessions.
Have no doubt about this, this
isn't a moral question to Apple. Apple has become a fortune 500 corporate behemoth with a stunning lack of morals. This is to be expected. But the courts should have ruled that if a company forces an employee to spend a part of their day doing something, the employee should be paid for their time.
The only reason the employees tolerate this nonsense is that massive corporate behemoths like Apple have bribed politicians to, in effect, create a plutocracy of privilege where only the rich have the luxury to be able to afford quitting a job.
Or even worse, why should your daughter basically get to stop working before the others on the shift and NOT do the work the entire time she is scheduled? Why should everyone else have to work their shifts end-to-end while your kid gets to stand in a line and NOT work for the 15-20 minutes? Oh yeah. Because it's a party or something and it's just that important.
No. You can either deal with it, or get another job. Same as everyone else in that industry. You don't need to bring that purse to work. Use your pocket, and if it's too much to handle, get a different job.
Wow.