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Apple Store Employees Soak Up the Atmosphere, But Not Much Cash
raque writes "The NYTimes is reporting on just
how badly Apple Retail employees are being paid. Apple is exploiting its fan base for cheap labor. This is one reason I don't go to Apple Stores if I can avoid it. Stores like NY's Tekserve offer a great shopping experience without so exploiting their workers." Would you rather start at an Apple store for $11.91 an hour (average starting base pay, according to the linked article) and an employee discount, or at Tiffany for $15.60?
Apple is a disgusting company that makes super-profits, because it treats its employees like garbage. Should that bother you? I dunno, have you got a conscience?
And you aren't entitled to a "living wage," whatever that means in any given time and place. It's a term you made up.
I second this. I work as a corrections officer in Kansas, working with >800 inmates Minimum to Maximum security inmates five days a week, and I only make $12.98/hour, with very bleak outlook in the way of raises.
So, I take it you supplement your income by smuggling drugs & contraband to inmates?
Or do you stage prizefights and bet on the outcome?
>LOL Wut? The PCs have been pretty much ahead of the curve compared to Apple on everything but shiny.
OK, pretty strong statement, let's see your proof.
>Frankly intel is pushing Ultrabooks not because Apple made the air, ...
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Thanks, that is the funniest thing I've read in a while.
It's the nauseating entitlement mentality. OMG, the outrage of only getting paid $12 an hour! Says more about the fucking worthlessness of our currency than anything. Yeah, blame the company for cutting costs. Don't blame the employee who chose to take that job. It's not like when selecting between employment at Apple for $12/hr, vs these supposed alternatives at $15/hr, the "cool factor" of working at Apple played into the decision one bit. No, the person was forced into signing on by all that mind control Apple advertising obviously!
Yes, it's all that god damned slave driving employer's fault for daring to employ people to provide a helpful service to the community. The audacity of those fucking assholes, taking otherwise unemployed people off the streets and paying them a wage that would have 99% of third world people shitting bricks at their good fortune, with the other 1% being the overprivileged brats who, like their American cousins, grew up with too fucking much food on the table on a regular basis to appreciate that life is fucking hard and the winners are those who take advantage of the opportunities which present themselves, not those who sit around bitching and moaning with their hands out wanting something free.
To the summary author: Give me a fucking break. Either go out and start a business providing a useful product and service, or shut the fuck up and get back to work. Your union-enforced smoke break is almost up.
Young black men are unemployed largely because the only jobs they can get don't pay enough to make it worth working.
In other words, they've got an attitude problem. Contrast that with the Mexicans or Asians who work hard, don't complain and accept the wage offered. In a few generations their children and grandchildren are joining the ranks of the working professionals and the upper middle class. Meanwhile there are still many blacks who sit on their hands and complain that the deck is stacked against them and that low paying jobs "aren't worth it". Give me a break.