CNET reports:
Apple's San Francisco flagship store temporarily became a scene of confusion and arrests on Thursday because of a sit-in held inside. A gathering of roughly 50 protestors were demonstrating against Apple for allegedly underpaying contract employees that work at its retail stores.
The protestors reportedly belong to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and said Apple routinely underpays contractors, such as security guards. The union also alleged that Apple hires contractors for part-time jobs to prevent paying employee benefits.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Tork on Saturday August 30 2014, @05:25AM
"A company founded by someone who would regularly not pay for the tags on his car wants to pay as little as possible to its employees?"
Today I learned that the desire for an executive to maintain the profit margins of the business he's in charge of manifests itself by compelling him to not get the tags that his car doesn't legally require.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @12:03AM
Today I learned that the desire for an executive to maintain the profit margins of the business he's in charge of manifests itself by compelling him to not get the tags that his car doesn't legally require.
You joke, but it is true. In both cases he exploited loopholes for his own benefit because he's got so much wealth and power that he can do things normal people can't do.
In the former case, he used the market power of Apple to bully other companies into cooperating into not recruiting from Apple's ranks. In the later case he bought a brand new car every six months because california law lets you go without plates for the first six months after purchasing a car - because it used to take a long time to get new plates, but it doesn't any more and the law hasn't been updated.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday August 31 2014, @12:17AM
In the later case he bought a brand new car every six months because california law lets you go without plates for the first six months after purchasing a car - because it used to take a long time to get new plates, but it doesn't any more and the law hasn't been updated.
Right, he didn't do something he wasn't required to do. BFD.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @03:35AM
> Right, he didn't do something he wasn't required to do. BFD.
Are you one of those dumbass geeks who thinks that morality is defined by the law rather than the other way around?
(Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday August 31 2014, @03:53AM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @04:24AM
> Nah. I'm just not so obsessed with Apple that I blow frivolous things out of proportion.
Proportion has nothing to do with it.
It is about a pattern of using wealth and power to get your own set of rules.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday August 31 2014, @04:58AM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @05:00AM
> You sought a pattern, your lack of proportion satisfied your desire.
Are you denying there is a pattern?
If so why focus on the letter of the law as an excuse instead of bring out your proportionality defense?
Looks to me like you are just pissy about getting called out for saying something obviously dumb.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @05:10AM
(Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday August 31 2014, @05:14AM
Nah, just saying that's a piss-poor example. Even your own choice of words betrays you. You've got several lower-hanging fruit, no pun intended, than that.
I'm sorry, didn't mean to post anonymously. Posting to verify my identity and to see that you responded.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @05:18AM
Ah, I get it now.
Your schtick is to tell people what is inside their own heads particularly in contradiction to their own words, and then act like they should be able to read your mind too.
Well, enjoy that sense of superiority because that's about all that's in evidence here.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday August 31 2014, @05:45AM
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