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@creative_rants

@creative_rants
31 posts
2024-01-19
Nothing funnier than managers excitedly telling specialists on the floor, many of whom can barely afford rent, about employeee discount for Vision Pro. 🗣️READ THE ROOM BUDDY
2024-01-19 View on X
Bloomberg

Internal video and memo: Apple sees health care, training, and education as key areas for the Vision Pro, and will give employees a 25% discount on the device

- Company has teams focused on enterprise and education uses  — Employees to get at least a 25% discount on Apple Vision Pro

2023-09-27
Easy fix. Just buy a second iPhone to use while your first one cools down 😌
2023-09-27 View on X
Ming-Chi Kuo

Ming-Chi Kuo: iPhone 15 Pro overheating issues likely due to thermal system design compromises to achieve a lighter weight, and are unrelated to TSMC's 3nm node

My survey indicates that the iPhone 15 Pro series overheating issues are unrelated to TSMC's advanced 3nm node.

2023-09-13
It's not a successful Apple product announcement without a new dongle 🙃 [image]
2023-09-13 View on X
The Verge

Apple starts selling a $29 USB-C to Lightning adapter alongside a $19 one-meter USB-C charging cable, a $29 two-meter USB-C cable, and a $69 Thunderbolt 4 cable

for a price Tom Sykes / The Apple Post : Apple selling new $29 USB-C to Lightning Adapter X: Ian Zelbo / @ianzelbo : The future is now #AppleEvent [image] @modestproposal1 : And so...

2023-05-19
Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! Apple's accessibility efforts remain a point of pride for me. Ensuring all or products can be used by the widest variety of people is really important work and often goes unnoticed. Let's spotlight this work. https://www.apple.com/...
2023-05-19 View on X
Fast Company

A look at Apple's Personal Voice, an accessibility feature that lets ALS patients digitize their voices through an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, set to release in 2023

Among the many challenges people living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) face is its impact on their speech.

2022-10-13
Apple: Our soul is our people* *Some exclusions may apply https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-10-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Apple told unionized store staff in Maryland that they won't get its new benefits and would need to negotiate via the collective bargaining arrangement

From Mark Gurman's “Apple to Withhold Latest Employee Perks … Rida Imran / iThinkDifferent : Apple's latest education and health perks will be withheld from unionized store Joe Wit...

2022-06-03
I WANT TO SEE EVERY U.S. APPLE STORE UNIONIZED. FROM COAST TO COAST BABY 🤝 #AppleUnion #UnionStrong
2022-06-03 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Apple plans to improve retail staff schedules, raising minimum hours between shifts from 10 to 12, no work for more than five days in a row, and more

Apple Inc. has agreed to make work schedules at its retail stores more flexible, according to employees with knowledge of the plans …

How many years have we requested these benefits and more only to be told “sorry not possible, need of the business 🙂” but the mere thought of us unionizing has Apple scrambling to appease us with these crumbs. Just imagine what successful unionizing could bring. https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-03 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Apple plans to improve retail staff schedules, raising minimum hours between shifts from 10 to 12, no work for more than five days in a row, and more

Apple Inc. has agreed to make work schedules at its retail stores more flexible, according to employees with knowledge of the plans …

2022-05-26
🚨SUPPORT APPLE STORE CUMBERLAND'S UNION EFFORT🚨 https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-26 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Apple will raise the hourly pay for US workers to $22, up 45% from 2018, amid inflation and a unionization push; US starting salaries are also expected to rise

The iPhone maker faces store unionization attempts, higher inflation  —  Apple Inc. AAPL .11%▲ is boosting pay …

@ashleygjovik @InFROPHell Downloads are typically paid morning meetings, usually right before store opening, lead by managers to update the team on new information.
2022-05-26 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Apple will raise the hourly pay for US workers to $22, up 45% from 2018, amid inflation and a unionization push; US starting salaries are also expected to rise

The iPhone maker faces store unionization attempts, higher inflation  —  Apple Inc. AAPL .11%▲ is boosting pay …

🚨SUPPORT APPLE STORE CUMBERLAND'S UNION EFFORT🚨 https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-26 View on X
VICE

Leaked video: Apple SVP of Retail + People Deirdre O'Brien tells employees that joining a union would make it harder for Apple to improve working conditions

Starbucks, Apple — and are considered to be progressive turn into full on Republicans the moment there's a chance those workers might get some leverage to influence their working c...

@ashleygjovik @InFROPHell Downloads are typically paid morning meetings, usually right before store opening, lead by managers to update the team on new information.
2022-05-26 View on X
VICE

Leaked video: Apple SVP of Retail + People Deirdre O'Brien tells employees that joining a union would make it harder for Apple to improve working conditions

Starbucks, Apple — and are considered to be progressive turn into full on Republicans the moment there's a chance those workers might get some leverage to influence their working c...

2022-05-13
Cliff Notes: Apple is following the exact same anti union playbook as every other large corporation 🙃 https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-13 View on X
VICE

Leaked memo: Apple is sending anti-union talking points to US retail store leaders, including that workers could lose “flexibility” and merit-based promotions

Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE :

2022-04-25
As U.S. Apple Stores begin to work on unionizing, just know Tim and His teams are having the exact same conversations as they all pull from the same union busting playbook. https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-25 View on X
Washington Post

Apple, Amazon, and Google have turned to old union-busting tactics, like surveilling workers suspected of organizing, posting propaganda, and hiring consultants

Tech companies are facing increasing momentum from workers trying to organize  —  At a Staten Island warehouse set to start …

2022-04-18
Do you work at Apple Retail? Do more benefits, better pay, better working conditions, and more protections against abuse sound good to you? TALK TO YOUR COWORKERS ABOUT UNIONIZING ✊✊✊ https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-18 View on X
Washington Post

Workers at Apple's flagship Grand Central Terminal store in Manhattan start formally collecting signatures to form a union

If successful, the effort would be the first time an Apple retail location has unionized  —  Workers at Apple's flagship Grand Central Terminal retail location …

2022-01-31
Apple Music marketing team turned the petty all the way up 😂 https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-31 View on X
Spotify

Spotify publishes its long-standing Platform Rules and says it is working to add a content advisory to podcast episodes that discuss COVID-19

A decade ago, we created Spotify to enable the work of creators around the world to be heard and enjoyed by listeners around the world.

2021-12-16
After multiple stores had to be closed for Covid outbreaks. 🗣REPORT THAT PART https://twitter.com/...
2021-12-16 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple closes three retail stores in Miami, Annapolis, and Ottawa, Canada after a rise in employee COVID-19 cases and exposures

Brickell in Miami, Annapolis in Maryland, and Rideau Street in Ottawa. Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer : Apple is closing more stores amid a surge in COVID-19 cases among retail staff:...

After multiple stores had to be closed for Covid outbreaks. 🗣REPORT THAT PART https://twitter.com/...
2021-12-16 View on X
Bloomberg

Memo: Apple delays its return to corporate offices to a “date yet to be determined”, after previously setting a February 1 return date

- Company had planned to bring corporate workers back by Feb. 1  — Delay comes in response to rising Covid-19 cases, new variant

2021-12-10
Ok now do Apple Retail 👀👀👀👀 [Victory at Elmwood, the first unionized Starbucks store in the United States—history made!!!]
2021-12-10 View on X
Forbes

Cher Scarlett, a leader of #AppleToo, says she is no longer withdrawing her NLRB complaint against Apple after it failed to execute a settlement in good faith

history made!!!] Cher Scarlett / @cherthedev : On 9/2/21, I sent a list of 4 demands to Apple. One was a company-wide memo clarifying employee rights including discussing pay & wor...

2021-12-03
No other article has better conveyed the current Apple Retail environment. https://www.theverge.com/...
2021-12-03 View on X
The Verge

Interviews with 16 current and former Apple retail, support, and sales employees detail harsh working conditions, poor pay, and little interest from HR

At most Apple will usually move a bad manager to a new store, sometimes repeatedly, instead of firing them. A manger is more likely to get fired for poor metrics than outright abusing employees. https://twitter.com/...
2021-12-03 View on X
The Verge

Interviews with 16 current and former Apple retail, support, and sales employees detail harsh working conditions, poor pay, and little interest from HR