Re:Apple’s Frontline Employees Are Struggling to Survive
by tomdell on Thursday December 02, 2021 @04:35PM
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It’s ridiculous that a company as profitable as Apple runs their support and retail operations with such an inhumane expectation of efficiency that employees have to often handle three simultaneous chats and bathroom breaks over five minutes merit chastisement from managers. I’m sure that support is a relatively small cost for Apple, so the hyper focus on efficiency seems especially cruel and unusual.
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Re:Apple’s Frontline Employees Are Struggling to Survive
by Apocryphon on Thursday December 02, 2021 @04:43PM
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Sounds like a similar situation to Amazon's warehouses.
Re:Apple’s Frontline Employees Are Struggling to Survive
by sonicanatidae on Thursday December 02, 2021 @04:42PM
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This is how they got and stay the profitable. Remember, you're talking about a company that removes features to sell over-priced adapters or wireless earbuds or cases or charging cables or or or, while calling itself "Brave". lol
Re:Apple’s Frontline Employees Are Struggling to Survive
by least on Thursday December 02, 2021 @06:14PM
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They floundered in the 90s by having no focus and no vision from a myriad of shitty CEOs. What brought them back to profitability was simplifying the line and making products that people actually wanted to buy in the iMac and then the iPod. Then the iPhone. I really don’t think their shitty working conditions for their retail employees is what is keeping them profitable.