A $3T corporation doesn't need or deserve your benefit of the doubt.
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U.S. Labor Department Opens Investigation Into Apple
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A $3T corporation doesn't need or deserve your benefit of the doubt.
You seem to be quick to think that Apple was wronged.
The article is covering the announcement of an INVESTIGATION. Those happen in order to...investigate.
How long was your tenure at Apple?
The answer will help clarify what you're basing this assertion on.
Supposedly Apple encourages their employees to use their personal Apple IDs for official Apple business:
Apple cares about privacy, unless you work at Apple
Employees say Apple hasn’t done enough to protect their data.
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Oh, no. No no no no no. You can't believe that. You can't. It makes me wonder what privilege you have, according to race, gender, sexuality, etc.
Shareholders are in it for the performance of the stock and whatever wealth they can get out of it. Nothing more. Individuals may join the company as employees because the believe, but the company uses that in order to get them to produce.
If the company restructures or for any other reason no longer sees fit to keep them around, they get rid of them under the rubric "it's just business". It's always just business with corporations. And individuals are never allowed to use that line with a corporation. There's a reason they call it Human Resources: humans are resources to them. Nothing more.
She said the work environment was toxic. NOT that the actual building was built on a toxic waste site. You don't even know what you're talking about.
If the investigation results in Apple being cleared, fine.
If the investigation results in Apple being held accountable for something they shouldn't have done, fine.
Either way, I hope the investigation is more thorough than following a Twitter account and playing armchair psychology.
do you work there?
Sounds like he got it right to me.
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American working conditions must be pretty bad to think this is okay on here.
35 hour week, 32 vacation days, 12 bank holidays, unlimited sick days (cuz obviously you don’t just decide to get ill), 3 years of maternity leave and universal health care for the win ✌?
35 hour week, 32 vacation days, 12 bank holidays, unlimited sick days (cuz obviously you don’t just decide to get ill), 3 years of maternity leave and universal health care for the win ✌?
It will be interesting to see. She has been there six years not give minutes so it can’t all be bad. She as fired for leaking documents then claimed bad practices from apple maybe payback will wait and see.
I don't know exactly how much I am paying actually and I do not really care either. There is enough salary left every month to do nice savings and to have an easy mind, not having to worry about unexpected bills and free time is priceless.
Many people in this thread have forgotten that MR have reported on discontent within Apple on a number of occasions:
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Those news articles contain snippets that not everything is cosy at Apple showing that many employee's at Apple are not happy with the way the company treats them. Ashley Gjovik is not an isolated case of which many members in here seem to think it is due to the manner in which they disparage the woman.
Defenders of Apple in here need to do their homework on the company because if they did they would not be defending Apple in the manner they are doing so, unless the defenders are disciples of the House of Apple which means in their eyes Apple does no wrong, EVER.
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Those news articles contain snippets that not everything is cosy at Apple showing that many employee's at Apple are not happy with the way the company treats them. Ashley Gjovik is not an isolated case of which many members in here seem to think it is due to the manner in which they disparage the woman.
Defenders of Apple in here need to do their homework on the company because if they did they would not be defending Apple in the manner they are doing so, unless the defenders are disciples of the House of Apple which means in their eyes Apple does no wrong, EVER.
I find the Texas Apple Store story educating enough about how much they care about people having symptoms and calling them in to work nonetheless.
Not saying that the woman is right but since there‘s an investigation, evidently people seem to be interested in the truth. Why not let them find it?
Any way this will turn out, I think it‘s the right thing to have someone else look at it as well.
Not saying that the woman is right but since there‘s an investigation, evidently people seem to be interested in the truth. Why not let them find it?
Any way this will turn out, I think it‘s the right thing to have someone else look at it as well.
Could it be that some people do not want to know the truth or are afraid of the truth hence why they are trying to discredit the woman any way they can?
She's got cool looking eyes. Apple is a business. If you are caught sharing company intellectual property, you get fired. This is pretty well established since its founding. People here are making assumptions about apple before actually hearing apple's side of the story. I am sure Apple has their reasons and they don't do these things unless justified. Apple will present their case in court, and then the courts decide. Till then, I wouldn't assume anything.
I believe that is their reasoning for firing her. Apple isn't just going to release their reasons to the general public.. I am sure they discussed this with the lady. If she wants to take them to court, the courts will see apples reasoning. again, let the courts decide. People on the internet are not privy to the full story and are only hearing this lady's public arguments.
Apple has had provided many reasons in the past, I'd be vary about their PR talk. Including "only few devices affected" or "in some cases".
They saw quite some statements proven wrong at public court so I wouldn't necessarily choose them as virtuous truth tellers. They are first and foremost protecting their image as good as they can as they are a publicly traded company, I would do the same if I were them and I felt safe or had good odds when going with said accusation.