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Apple Sued For Turning Workers Into Slaves
SwiftyNifty writes "Apple employees are putting together a class action lawsuit for not receiving overtime pay. A Lawsuit filed Monday in California seeks class action status alleging that Apple denied technical staffers required overtime pay and meal compensation in violation of state law.
Filed in the US District Court for Southern California, the complaint claims that many Apple employees are routinely subjected to working conditions resembling indentured servitude, or 'modern day slaves,' for lack of better words."
cultists don't get payed
For the experience!
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
It's their Jobs.
Actually the page was not available 30 minutes ago..not that I am implying the someone else would want that page taken down... Ok yes I am implying it strongly!
I'm being repressed!
It never ceases to amaze me that any sites get slashdotted considering how obvious it is that very few posters ever RTFA, let alone the previous comments to a story...
In this case I guess it's all the /. Apple fanboyz keeping the site down. It's a conspiracy, you mark my words.
simon
Apple employees should just switch which pins are connected via the jumper. It's clearly labeled on the top of the drive.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Apple made it perfectly clear in their contracts that they would be compensated by merely getting excited about the thought of working near the place where such secret and beautiful products are created. Even just working for Apple should be compensation enough. Hell, you should be able to get your date off merely by telling her you work for Apple.
I take it these people didn't get the memo. Do these people not know that?
It Just Works.(TM)
The iSlave is born!
"Coke Cola introduced a new, delicious Lime-twisted beverage today, creating a Holocaust of flavor formerly unknown to this world until today. The lines of people at convenience stores remind one of cattle awaiting an unknown fate, only these cattle were people, and the fate a tasty, carbonated beverage."
Or, worse yet, try playing football for Manchester United...
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
...and not loving it.
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I remember when slashdot was full of smart people with a liberal philosophy
I don't remember that. I remember a slashdot full of nerds... all the way down.
I would like to read the article.
I'm sorry, could you rephrase that? I'm not sure I quite grasp what you mean.
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iWork, iSlave...iSolonely, iCouldcry
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Apples most successful product:
iPerbole
http://blindscribblings.com - Tasty pop-culture in conceptual fashion.
She works 12 days during the summer you say? That really is an injustice, I can't believe this Apple story is getting all the attention and noone is talking about the teachers!
He'd say, you don't need to get paid. I agree. Steve Jobs agrees. Where's the problem?
They should pay for the rights to work at that great institution. What next 401k's and holidays off?
Si vis pacem, para bellum! For evil to succeed good men need only do nothing!
So how does this compare, to BMW for example, where their German workforce is also highly unionized?
No! quite the opposite (they were very ionized) and had to be degaussed.
Just give the worker iTunes credits. Then that could lead to an iUnion and an iStrike. It would be just like my grandfather's time in the coal mines.
Sic Semper MicroSoft
[citation needed]
Ah, I see, now I'm a racist too. Excellent comeback.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
Eh no, sorry bub, we're not just leeches on the great ol' US.
We're actually very similar to the US - we live on debt and cheap shit from China.
Mac fans show their people skills again.
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On Slashdot, this goes without saying...
One man's constant is another man's variable.
I wholeheartedly agree that Apple is required to follow state work laws, and should be punished if they are not doing so.
HOWEVER.. some IT Dork that probably makes 85k+ a year calling himself a "Modern Day Slave", because he doesn't get overtime? I'm sure there a some illegals working in textile plants that would disagree.
Awesome!
Please, you have to be joking. Most of these people are getting paid handsomely. A slave is someone who doesn't get paid and has no choice. In California you can legally quit your job any time you want. Once you are making the big bucks you're a professional, and as far as I know you don't require additional compensation such as overtime.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
... we CAN say "precedent".
:o)
Not quite the same thing.
I worked at NeXT and Apple. I'd love to see what their pay ranges are for if they are above $25/hr they can f**k right off as anyone getting that kind of wage field support calls is money ahead.
Hell, when I started as an QA engineer for NeXT it was $19.50/hr for a 6 week trial run. It was later regular-full-time salaried employee but the wage sure as hell didn't jump up like you'd expect--I just had a starting point to expand into engineering.
Later on when the merger happened most reviews and salaries were frozen until solvency was returned. I worked 60 hours a week and that actually wasn't a problem for me as the work was enjoyable. The problem occurred when I got sick of my reviews being delayed so I left.
I'll say this, the jobs since then have been far less enjoyable, mindnumbingly boring and even the pay increases weren't much so in hindsight it was a stupid move.
As a multiple degree engineer [mechanical and computer science] I sure as hell am not going to feel pity for call center support personnel whining if that hourly rate is above $25/hr.
My team of 5 supported hundreds of Enterprise NeXT customers daily and we had tens of thousands of logs to maintain, edit, open, cross-reference, include changes and close, while walking joe blow developer through a redeployment, Netinfo redesign of master/slave relationships, to EOF database models, to checking over Openstep code, system installs of 4 architectures, et.al BEFORE we escalated it to Engineering proper [AppKit, FoundationKit, WOF, etc]
I have a suggestion: find a competitive environment that is comparable to Apple Call Centers and leave if you think it's better, or improve your technology skills and network at Apple's main campus to see if there are job openings you'd be a fit. Opportunity exists if you can see beyond the Call Center job.
Where are the vicious digs at Apple users' sexuality and lifestyles? Where are the drooling Apple fanboys defending slavery?
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it