Good news , Apple retail employees ! You ’re getting barren meeting !
Wait , that ’s not good news program . That ’s bad news program .
“ Apple hold nationwide meetings with retail workers to ‘ discuss the risks of unionisation ’ ”
You may be ask yourself “ Is Apple seriously still doing this ? ” Well , it is notnotdoing it , that ’s for sure . You may further be asking yourself “ Is the company still on its drool ? ” The response to that is , not only is it still on its baloney , it ’s fry it and redact it on Wonder Bread with mayonnaise .
Somewhere in the depths of internal communicating some poor soulfulness is slaving over a hot range with an iPhone video cheat and some ball and gumming “ This is your brain . And this is your brain on union . ”
( As an by , apart from the mindlessness of the exercise that was The War on Drugs , what a unintelligent commercial that was . “ Oh , seem , a deep-fried egg . Is n’t that horrible ? ” No ! Fried egg areamazingand they go on everything . )
Well , at least it ’s just retail trades union Apple hates and otherwise , it ’s very reformist in its-
“ Apple ‘ Tracking Employee Attendance ’ in Crackdown on Remote Working ”
Oh , come on ! The Macalope did n’t even get through his artificial lead - in sentence !
According to Mark Gurman , Apple is monitoring corporate employee attending for the call for three days a hebdomad in - office at the same time it has removed a “ special sick meter ” supplying for Covid for retail employees , requiring them to apply veritable sick day for any Covid illness . Pandemic ’s over , gist pouch ! Time to get back into the mall where no one is masking !
C’m on , you certainly do n’t expect the plenteous company in the existence to foot the bill for increase risk in the workplace , do you ? ! In this economy ? And if you chew through your year ’s worth of pale leave get covid once , well , it ’s not like you ’re going to get it again in a few months ! Ha - ha !
[ pulls at neckband , grimmaces ]
As if all this were n’t bad enough , anyone violating these policies can be fire and the party is not always re - filling the positions , allowing it to do de facto layoffs without feature to declare them or give rift wage .
To be fairish , who has n’t wanted to die up with someone and be able-bodied to say “ It ’s not me , it ’s you . ” ?
Apple , for so long the underdog , has now become the placard child for not only App Store abuses but even Store revilement as well .
“ An Apple Store Worker Is the New Face of US Labor Law Reform ”
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The matter is , as the Macalope has repeatedly said , this is not necessary . Believe the horny one when he says it pain him to orient favorably to Microsoft , which-
THE WINOTAUR : Hey , did someone favourably remark Microsoft ? !
NO . No . We ’re not doing that . Get out of here .
THE WINOTAUR : Aww .
Sheesh . Like a spoiled cent .
Last year Microsoftcommitted to working with unionsrather than trying to squelch them and did just that early on this year .
“ Video plot workers make Microsoft ’s first US proletariat union ”
A group of telecasting biz testers has formed Microsoft ’s first labor union in the U.S. , which will also be the largest in the video recording game industry .
Because of the company ’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard , it was contractually required to remain neutral on worker organizing , but it went beyond that , greenlighting the pairing enfranchisement process to speed it up .
“ They have definitely stood by their word all along , ” say CWA representative Beth Allen . “ It ’s moderately momentous . Microsoft is an outlier in the way tech companies have been behaving . ”
you’re able to say that again .
THE WINOTAUR : Are you certain I ca n’t get in on this ?
OUT . OUT .
THE WINOTAUR : Ow ! bar pinching ! I ’m going ! Gawd .
Up until 10 eld ago , Microsoft was the companionship that famously used stack ranking , the physical process make grow by some VP of HR somewhere who misreadThe Hunger Gamesas utopian rather than dystopian . Talk about most improved . While some of its moves are to align itself with Washington state law , it has chosento embrace themrather than defend them tooth and nail .
Like some other technical school companies , the Macalope could mention .
Apple . It was Apple . In pillow slip you did n’t get that .
