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Tim Cook Thanks Apple Employees for Outstanding 2012 with Extended Thanksgiving Vacation Time
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I'm spending my spare time on an Apple-based internet forum. You seriously think I go to parties?
I didn't realize there were out-of-the-box issues. That is definitely no good.
People complaining about scratches post-box-opening...can't help you.
No didn't you hear, they never get another day off in their life as punishment for releasing a crappy app.
Yeah but they get to take their extra days in a special place doing special things. Testing the map app fixes!
Kidding aside, I'm still not really clear on why they released the maps application prematurely. The pressure to ship should never be allowed to outweigh the potential for shipping something with a significant missed goal. No one should feel intimidated by an obligation to pull the emergency brake on a launch if it just can't go. And yet it still happens. Fear can be a really destructive motivator.
Joseph Heller had it right in his novel "Something Happened." Everyone really is afraid of someone else in corporate structures. Or was it "afraid of at least four other people"... it's been a long time since that book popped into my head.
Tim Cook is probably savvy enough to realize that everyone, including the maps app team, needs that extra time off. Still, someone at Apple needs to learn to be more afraid of launching a bad product than of failing to meet a deliverable's deadline. I mean if you burn the turkey then you're probably just going to have to serve something else for T'day dinner, or put a few extra potatoes on the table!
...sounds like you want an office job and not a retail job. why arent you working in one?
Those minuses you listed get to take their extra 3 days at another time.
If my company announced that they were going to give me three extra vacation days, I'd be thrilled.
No, of course not. Their consistently best-in-the-business customer satisfaction levels across all their product categories is an indication of high customer satisfaction.
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As a shareholder, you should be glad Apple's engineers are taking some time off to see their families and rest a bit. Happy workers are more productive workers. The last thing you should want is a bunch of grumpy, burnt-out employees that are wishing they were home all day long instead of getting work done. Let's face it, this is not a productive time of year anyway.
They had a grumpy leader for years who didn't give two hoots about their personal lives. Why change now?
Because they have a different leader?
Since Tim Cook took over, Apple has added charitable gift matching and stock dividends. It seems like the new CEO does things a bit differently. Note that these type of changes would probably need to be approved by the Board of Directors.
Since Tim Cook took over, Apple has added charitable gift matching and stock dividends. It seems like the new CEO does things a bit differently. Note that these type of changes would probably need to be approved by the Board of Directors.
Agreed. I work retail. They don't give us an extra paid 3 days off just cause the store is doing well period. I'd totally take 3 days paid off that I might have to take some other time. It's retail, the holidays are their busiest time and when they need employees the most. It sux but that's the nature of the beast. Hell, I used to work at CNN.com... we just didn't get holidays off period (the best i could do was get them to let me be on call Christmas Day and I worked Thanksgiving). Didn't even get paid overtime for them or anything.
I'm just happy usually my manager lets me take after Christmas off so I can go visit my parents.
Please don't confuse low skilled with not hard work. Retail can be quite hard work and just cause some one works retail doesn't mean they don't do hard work.
Shoot, I know at my store I had an idiot who decided he was going to do it cause he wanted something "relaxing" (he worked doing dialysis as his other job).
Yeah, he didn't last two weeks.
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Let me add, you could work at Walmart where they want you to come in on 10 pm Thanksgiving Day so that you can be there for their super early Black Friday sale...
I personally refuse to shop during those really early sales. There is a point where it does get ridiculous what stores will do and I don't want to encourage it.
Apple's going soft in the post-Steve era. My brother has three kids and as he complains they can't eat vacation time he can't take.
The Maps team didn't get it done. This sort of thing should be a performance-based perk and not a "feel good" blanket policy.
"In a little over six months we've launched outstanding new products in each of our major categories."
I guess the desktops are minor categories?
I guess the desktops are minor categories?
Only Thanksgiving?
3 days is nothing for an "extended" period.... Especially the work Apple has done, Tim is whole-harted.
"Thanks Tim, but no thanks..... Give me 6 days, and i'll take it."
Its like putting extra effort in and not getting anytime off.
For a company as big as Apple, and all the hard work thy do, i'm really surprised that Tim didn't make this worth-while.
Oh well....something, is better than nothing at all.
3 days is nothing for an "extended" period.... Especially the work Apple has done, Tim is whole-harted.
"Thanks Tim, but no thanks..... Give me 6 days, and i'll take it."
Its like putting extra effort in and not getting anytime off.
For a company as big as Apple, and all the hard work thy do, i'm really surprised that Tim didn't make this worth-while.
Oh well....something, is better than nothing at all.
Astute observation! Let's hope there's no hidden message in that statement. As many others, I still love my iMac, and am looking forward to the next version, whenever it may be ready. I know it'll be great!
Lighten up; somewhere there has to be a silver lining in that cloud. No pun intended.
PCs are supposed to be much faster for heavy tasks. if u need a pc to replace a laptop, then the laptop was *very* powerful and/or the pc (or operating system) is slow...
but anyway, i was just kidding
They already get Thanksgiving and Black Friday off, always have. This way, they get the whole week (unless they're retail/support, in which case they get Thanksgiving Day off, and just get some bonus days off). It's quite worthwhile. They end up with 9 days off in a row if they work M-F.
jW