Excellent news, Apple retail workers! You’re getting free conferences!
Wait, that’s not excellent news. That’s dangerous information.
Chances are you’ll be asking your self “Is Apple severely nonetheless doing this?” Effectively, it’s not not doing it, that’s for positive. Chances are you’ll additional be asking your self “Is the corporate nonetheless on its baloney?” The reply to that’s, not solely is it nonetheless on its baloney, it’s frying it and placing it on Marvel Bread with mayonnaise.
Someplace within the depths of inner communications some poor soul is slaving over a scorching range with an iPhone video rig and a few eggs and mumbling “That is your mind. And that is your mind on unions.”
(As an apart, aside from the pointlessness of the train that was The Conflict on Medication, what a silly industrial that was. “Oh, look, a fried egg. Isn’t that horrible?” No! Fried eggs are superb and so they go on all the things.)
Effectively, a minimum of it’s simply retail unions Apple hates and in any other case, it’s very progressive in its-
“Apple ‘Monitoring Worker Attendance’ in Crackdown on Distant Working”
Oh, come on! The Macalope didn’t even get by way of his contrived lead-in sentence!
In keeping with Mark Gurman, Apple is monitoring company worker attendance for the required three days per week in-office on the similar time it has eliminated a “particular sick time” provision for Covid for retail workers, requiring them to make use of common sick days for any Covid sickness. Pandemic’s over, meat sacks! Time to get again into the mall the place nobody is masking!
C’mon, you actually don’t count on the richest firm on the earth to foot the invoice for elevated danger within the office, do you?! On this economic system? And in case you chew by way of your 12 months’s value of sick depart getting covid as soon as, nicely, it’s not such as you’re going to get it once more in a couple of months! Ha-ha!
[pulls at collar, grimmaces]
As if all this weren’t dangerous sufficient, anybody violating these insurance policies will be fired and the corporate will not be at all times re-filling the positions, permitting it to do de facto layoffs with out having to declare them or give severance pay.
To be honest, who hasn’t wished to interrupt up with somebody and have the ability to say “It’s not me, it’s you.”?
Apple, for thus lengthy the underdog, has now grow to be the poster baby for not solely App Retailer abuses however common Retailer abuses as nicely.
“An Apple Retailer Employee Is the New Face of US Labor Regulation Reform”
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The factor is, because the Macalope has repeatedly stated, this isn’t vital. Consider the sexy one when he says it pains him to level favorably to Microsoft, which-
THE WINOTAUR: Hey, did somebody favorably point out Microsoft?!
NO. No. We’re not doing that. Get out of right here.
THE WINOTAUR: Aww.
Sheesh. Like a nasty penny.
Final 12 months Microsoft dedicated to working with unions reasonably than attempting to squash them and did simply that early this 12 months.
“Online game employees kind Microsoft’s first US labor union”
A gaggle of online game testers has fashioned Microsoft’s first labor union within the U.S., which can even be the most important within the online game trade.
Due to the corporate’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, it was contractually required to stay impartial on employees organizing, however it went past that, greenlighting the union certification course of to hurry it up.
“They’ve undoubtedly stood by their phrase all alongside,” stated CWA spokesperson Beth Allen. “It’s fairly momentous. Microsoft is an outlier in the way in which tech corporations have been behaving.”
You’ll be able to say that once more.
THE WINOTAUR: Are you positive I can’t get in on this?
OUT. OUT.
THE WINOTAUR: Ow! Cease pinching! I’m going! Gawd.
Up till 10 years in the past, Microsoft was the corporate that famously used stacked rating, the method developed by some VP of HR someplace who misinterpret The Starvation Video games as utopian reasonably than dystopian. Speak about most improved. Whereas a few of its strikes are to align itself with Washington state regulation, it has chosen to embrace them reasonably than battle them tooth and nail.
Like another tech corporations, the Macalope might point out.
Apple. It was Apple. In case you didn’t get that.
