Apple’s Unionized Store Wants to Start Accepting Tips from Customers
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#2Fuck that. Tipping culture is ridiculous as it is. No way in hell someone deserves a tip showing you the capabilities of an iphone. Especially not with the current POS systems that ask for a minimum of 20%.
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#3John Gruber’s take:
> But this tipping proposal is so antithetical to Apple’s customer-first retail experience that it feels like a joke, or that the union negotiators have never even been in an Apple Store.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/05/04/apple-store-mar...
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#4"Siri, what is 20% of a $1000 iPhone?"
Re: Apple’s Unionized Store Wants to Start Accepting Tips from Customers
#5John Gruber’s take: > But this tipping proposal is so antithetical to Apple’s customer-first retail experience that it feels like a joke, or that the union negotiators have never even been in an Apple Store. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/05/04/apple-store-mar...
Yeah I don't see Apple agreeing to this. They'll just hire scabs over this, even if it means paying the scabs a competitive wage.
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#6Oh ffs, tipping is getting completely out of hand.
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#7Aggressive asking for tipping will drive customers away and the shop can be closed. The shop workers aren’t helping themselves with such measures in the time of online shopping.
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#8This is why unions are must today. Helping workers earn a little bit more in these uncertain times. Kudos to them for pointing out such an obvious source of additional income.
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#9This is so ridiculous that I assume it is intentional sabotage. Isn't the whole idea behind unionization that we can get beyond tipping?
>In addition to an overall raise, representatives from the store are asking Apple for higher pay over a larger slate of holidays, including the day after Thanksgiving. The union is also seeking to expand vacation pay and available time off based on years of service. And it wants to extend paid bereavement leave from 10 days per occurrence to a maximum of 45 days a year and for the policy to include pets and close friends.
45 days a year for pet bereavement? If it includes goldfish, I'm in!
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#10I wonder how this will interact with the "it's out of warranty, but we will do this once, just for you" sort of situation?