I guess you didn't realize my last two posts were sarcasm.
Obviously you are missing the point. If you NEED to bring the bag to work, then you NEED to have your bag checked at the end of the day. If you don't want to comply, don't bring the bag. Bring your lunch to work in a brown bag. Throw away the bag when done.
No, I think you don't get it at all. Some of these employees are waiting upwards of an HOUR to have their bag checked. I don't care what fantasy land you might prefer to inhabit than the real world, that is not reasonable and if it's going to take management THAT long then they should either change their policy (even to not allow bags so at least it's consistent and isn't leading to ridiculous things like that) or compensate the people they are basically holding hostage at that point.
So many people bring personal bags to work that are so big they look like Samsonite luggage.
This sounds like creative supposition rather than actual facts for some reason.
These personal bags are filled with personal effects. They will spend paid company time on the job using these personal effects and have no problem with that at all. It's their "right" I guess. They don't
More made up supposition. You might imply that they are loading their bags with hard drives and sneaking out the back door while you're at it. I mean why not? Don't let an inconvenient truth get in your way of putting down employees and defending the multi-billionaire corporation that "cares" about how gay people are mistreated (and he should care), but mistreats their own employees like they're fracking slaves and pays them jack while the CEO lives it up like he's the only person that can sit at a desk and tell others to do all his work for him. I see just a bit of hypocrisy there.
Now before you give some nonsense lecture about what a great CEO he is, please care to includes all the awesome things Apple has done since Steve Jobs has died like let the competition get ahead of them, put out products that are already outdated on the day they're released and spend more time on making things look flat than fixing actual bugs and/or making OS X and iOS more reliable (you know something useful).
Entitlement at it's ultimate definition! That's something you NEED to learn.
You strike me as being SO out of touch with reality. When someone whines and whines an whines about "entitlements" that equate to holding employees up to an hour after work as if they were hostages, I think you need to just leave thread because you've lost. Period. There wouldn't be a lawsuit if employees were getting their bags checked in a reasonable amount of time (i.e. a few minutes). No, it's gross negligence at work here by blaming the employees for "bringing a bag" rather than the employer for not taking care of bag checks in an organized and timely fashion.
There seems to be a lot of the use of the word "entitlement" to mean something "horrible" when it is in fact the right-wing media that throws the word around that way because it directly impacts their own pocket books. Those that have aren't happy that they have it, but rather want to take it away from those that barely have anything at all by comparison. And THERE lies the real evils and problems of the modern world, even though it differs very little from the old world. Does someone check Tim Cook's possessions when he comes to work? Of course not.
Most of the people whining about "entitlements" in this world fall into one of two categories:
1> Uber Rich top 1% that ARE the definition of "entitlement" but want to keep everyone else as peasants that can't possibly move up and threaten the lifestyles of the rich and scum bags.
2> People who have been brainwashed by those in #1 (e.g. Rush Limbaugh types) to believe their propaganda using fear and redirection (it's those illegal immigrants that are taking your jobs and food out of your babies' mouths, not us CEOs sending those jobs over to China to pay 10 cents an hour instead of a whopping $8 an hour (with no benefits) while they earn $200-500 MILLION a year on average and actually believe they are worth that much.
Of course, if we had FAIR trade laws instead of "free" trade laws, those pesky inequalities between 10 cents and hour and $8 an hour wouldn't exist since tariffs and the like would ensure that trade between first and third world countries are kept in check so companies can't take advantage of slave labor to make more profits for themselves only while giving their employees the boot. After all, corporations are people. But unlike people, corporations don't "feel" or have any morality what-so-ever. And that's because they are not people. That basic ruling alone has done more harm than possibly any other court ruling in history.
They say that those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The problem I see is that one day when greed chokes the life out of everyone but the top 1%, the other 99% eventually will come for the top 1% to make things more equal one way or another and that probably wont' be a happy day for those people. I've read about the French Revolution, but apparently some of these people were absent in history class that day or something. Was that right back then? No, of course not. But any monetary market has "corrections" in it sooner or later. It would be better to correct problems before they get too far out of control. But that would mean some having a little less NOW rather than all of it taken from them later and greed being what it is means the rich will always bet on it happening to someone else.
They never learn that being treated fairly, reasonably and with dignity SHOULD be "entitlements" that EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON EARTH should expect. Sadly, there are those that think only they should have respect. Only they should get paid well or have health care. They are sadly mistaken.
And no, I don't work at Apple. I make far more than these employees, but that doesn't mean I cannot relate to them as I came from a poor family and I know what it's like. I also know Apple probably spent more on their lawyers to fight this case than it would have cost them to settle it with a more reasonable approach and the sheer stink of the hypocrisy of people like Tim Cook giving speeches about one class of people being mistreated while having his own company mistreat other groups just plain STINKS.
What is the definition of good and the definition of evil, after all? Many people think of serial killers and the like when they think of evil, but ALL evil has its root at the desire of an individual to put his own self before all others, even at very high costs indeed. True good is putting others ahead of oneself. Most people lie somewhere in-between those extremes, but I see the people that have constantly moving the flag marker further and further towards themselves. Whatever progress the US made in the past one hundred years is being eroded and erased more and more each day. But what are the hidden costs?
Happy people don't start revolutions. Happy people don't rock boats. Happy people don't cause trouble. Unhappy people, OTOH are far more unpredictable. Germany didn't become what it did after World War I because the people there were happy, well-to-do people, after all. Russia didn't fall to revolution because the people were happy, well fed workers. Unions weren't formed in the USA because the workers we well treated and happy. No, misery breeds the more extreme actions of history. Let the courts and governments and corporations and rich folk keep putting down all courts cases, all protests, all strikes, etc. etc. and see where it gets them. I KNOW where it gets them and if they knew like I know, they would think two or three or even twenty times before taking many of the actions they routinely take on a daily basis making their "management" decisions. No, they don't give it a second thought because it doesn't affect them...or so they think.
It's real easy for some on here to dismiss this all and shake their fist at these bastards that want "entitlements". But I can guarantee you that the people doing that are not the ones affected. They are not the ones with monetary problems or without a job or making $7 or $8 an hour. There's NO WAY ON EARTH it's those people defending Apple unless they are touched in the head. No, it's the people that already have something or PLAN TO GET IT ONE DAY that think like that. I know. I used to be like that too at one time. But that's what leads to conflict. That's what leads to revolutions. That's what leads to wars and the truly wise people are the ones that realize it before it's too late.
This? It's just a bag check. It's just a small thing. But it's a sign of far greater problems brewing under the surface. Are kids "spoiled" today? Sure, many are. But that's not it at all. There are a lot of people out there that got college degrees and still can't find a good job. Well go get re-trained some cry! Yeah, go into more debt to get another job that will be excessed or given to a robotic work force (the new thing being pushed to wipe out jobs everywhere). Why not, right? Your parents worked to pay off a house. You are paying to pay off your tuition with a job you never got! It all really comes down the haves and the have nots and the have nots outnumber the haves by about 99-to-1.