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and get it tossed out of the UPS truck as it does a slow drive-by your address.
Anything worth over $500 is going to automatically require a signature on delivery, so little chance it’ll just get tossed off the truck.
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I don't know about in the US, but in Canada, I used to work at Forever 21—a California-based retail chain—and you are required to go through a pat-down right before you leave the store. You'd have to look for a manager, and ask them to escort you to the front of the store, and have them pat you down.
Wow. The only time I ever had to go through something like that was working for Ferraro/TicTac in Brantford during the summer when I was a student. We would have our lunch bags randomly searched as we passed through the outer security gate on our way to parking. Bloody TicTacs. They would leave snacking items or seconds in the break room for people to eat if there were any—just don’t walk off the lot with a half pack…
That was because they discovered that most people, after a week or two of free-for-all binging never wanted to eat another bar of chocolate in their life, and so the company's costs were near zero.
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They probably get paid on commission for walk-in sales. I’ve seen other stores appropriate internet orders to make a sale. From the salespersons perspective they don’t have much to lose.
Apple retail employees aren’t paid on commission AFAIK. Flat rate whether you buy an iPad or a $15k Mac Pro. The theory was to avoid the “grandma got talked into a multi thousand dollar computer and a billion accessories she didn’t need because that’s how the employee gets the most money.
>The court’s decision is retroactive. This seems like a pandora's box. If the employees are already off the clock to endure this delay for the searches, how will they be able to show how much time was lost in a way that would be worthy of a payment?
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Google and Microsoft are doing pretty well.
they dont have a ton of low skill store employees
> You don't get to be the richest company in the world by paying your workers well.
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It's a bit more transparent, but won't make much of a difference to the bottom line in the long run: The actual work done won't change from the relabeling, and Apple can adjust the hourly wages to get roughly to the same level of total compensation as before. (Modulo boundary effects from America's love affair with minimum wage laws, should they kick in.)
I doubt they’ll adjust the wages, if only because of the bad PR that would result.
Also, the fact that this is even possible is a very good example why the US needs more unions. It obviously doesn't work with the current model where employees (of any industry) gets screwed over by the corporate overlords. But no, union BAD!! I don't see a better way to bring weight to the table and force employers to do the right thing, they certainly won't do it of their own accord.
Searching a backpack for stolen hardware seems somewhat reasonable (although it doesn’t reflect well on their hiring standards) but what right does Apple, champion of privacy, have to search through their employees devices?
As a thought experiment, what if companies are made to pay for commute time? How would that change the labour market? Would they hire local? Provide better transportation? Work with cities to reduce congestion? Encourage more remote work? Decide it's too expensive to hire workers and cut hours? Work towards more inclusive housing?