While I’m 100% sure this will never happen, I’m still a bit floored this was even brought to the table by the union. What a patently absurd idea.
Apple’s Unionized Store Wants to Start Accepting Tips from Customers
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#12This 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.
Unions should be fighting for more income from employers - not from customers!
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#13"Siri, what is 20% of a $1000 iPhone?"
"Okay, I was able to find FUCK THAT as an agreed tip amount"
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#15Oh ffs, tipping is getting completely out of hand.
Next, we're going to start seeing tip requests every time someone checks in code to the repo. "Hey, look, I did my job. Tip please"
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#16I am shocked a labor union is okay with tipping as a mechanism of compensation. Its antithetical to their own goals usually, let alone Apple is not going to take kind to this.
Tipping is out of control as it is, at least in the US. Where does it stop I have to wonder.
Lets just keep the fight about fair wages, benefits and working conditions first and foremost. This feels like its waiting for public backlash
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#17I'd rather tip the Foxconn workers
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#18Obviously a PR grab by the union itself, but it seems like they are a little deaf about how a large portion of the population views unions.
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#19I read this and thought it was satire. Tipping? For electronics purchases? Why don't I tip the employees at Best Buy for selling me a washing machine?
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#20John 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...
The next line was great too:
"They might as well ask for employees to be allowed to vape while working."