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Nah.. it's a new selective narrative. I bet if someone talking of their pleasure of working there no reporters would turn their heads but if they heard someone hating it they'd leave everything to write about it.
Don't fall for it. “people familiar with the incidents” is just too easy. Not saying the building doesn't have issue. Any building will have ones, even Frank Lloyd Wright's. But there is narrative to sell and that narrative is Apple is failing.
Lol, we had to put frosted look wraps on glass doors in our building for the same reason, with so many employees I don't see the perfectly clear look sticking around for safety reasons.
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Any building will have ones, even Frank Lloyd Wright's.
FLW houses have far more issues than most buildings. Fallingwater may have fallen into Bear Run without intervention, and the owner nicknamed the house Rising Mildew. (I'm a huge Wright fan for whatever record this counts as.)
Since the dawn of glass walls, doors, and barriers, people have walked into them. Bloomberg realized though that if it happens at Apple, it's a story to milk.
Maybe people should just watch where they're going...
Ah, there's the snag. Watch all you like but very clear glass at the right light levels and you don't see it at all.
I bet they know it there now LOL.
No, you don't, especially if it's a door (especially a sliding glass door) whose threshold you've walked across countless times. Just like the vibration absorbing silicone base of the HomePod that affects certain surfaces, this issue is solvable (*gasp* an Apple fanatic just lost their shit again). Putting up Post-It notes are a makeshift solution but there are attractive options specifically to prevent this exact issue from happening (but those that want to believe Apple can't do any wrong are just going to blame the employee no matter what so it's moot point to even discuss it with them). For everyone else, there are elaborate to simple decals you can place on any surface to keep this from happening. For someone like Apple, a simple, small frosted decal or thin, horizontal line in the eye's path would let the eye know there's an obstruction ahead without having any major affect on the aesthetic.
There's literally no excuse for this as Apple has been using glass for walls for decades and have been dealign with this issue for just as long.
Seems to me this can be fixed with some well-placed IR beams/sensors and some lighting that illuminates the glass when you get too close. It would keep it clean looking, but warn you if you get too close.
Seems to me this can be fixed with some well-placed IR beams/sensors and some lighting that illuminates the glass when you get too close. It would keep it clean looking, but warn you if you get too close.
That's an interesting idea. Has this been employed elsewhere?
I would think it just takes an adjustment period for employees to build some muscle memory in this particular case. Many times I've had to make adjustments when I moved house furniture and would bump into things that I had changed the position. I don't think these employees will be bumping into the same glass partitions forever. I'm really surprised at the type of news Apple generates. These are such natural adjustments that certainly don't just apply to Apple. I would be surprised if people were actually paying attention to where they were walking and still bumped into the glass because they really couldn't see it at normal lighting levels. Don't the entrances to cubicles have any outline?
It's appears to me, from this photo that there are two vertical posts at the center that lead into the cubicle. I would think that would be enough info for the eye to catch some cues. I guess it really is the survival of the fittest if Apple employees can't negotiate glass better than birds. However, I don't like the idea of Apple taking down visual cues employees put up merely to maintain some clean design factor. I think safety should be more important than pure design.
I do find it strange how Apple is always being singled out as some company that isn't allowed to make any mistakes in judgment. No company is perfect because no humans are perfect. I don't believe every mistake can be caught. I would have thought the Space Shuttle Program would have been the most trouble-free program ever developed but even so, there were fatal Space Shuttle accidents despite things being double- and triple-checked. There's just always chance of an error. On Youtube there are lots of videos about engineering mistakes, so I'm sure Apple isn't the only company that makes these subtle mistakes. Apple Park is a huge building and some problems are bound to creep in.
I would think it just takes an adjustment period for employees to build some muscle memory in this particular case. Many times I've had to make adjustments when I moved house furniture and would bump into things that I had changed the position.
Those are very different situations. And there will always be new employees coming, not to mention current employees moving to new areas.
Don't fall for it. “people familiar with the incidents” is just too easy. Not saying the building doesn't have issue. Any building will have ones, even Frank Lloyd Wright's. But there is narrative to sell and that narrative is Apple is failing.
Exactly. We'll be seeing reports soon where one person has complained about the quality of the toilet paper in the new building. APPL will fall by $10 on the news.
Don't fall for it. “people familiar with the incidents” is just too easy. Not saying the building doesn't have issue. Any building will have ones, even Frank Lloyd Wright's. But there is narrative to sell and that narrative is Apple is failing.
Exactly. We'll be seeing reports soon where one person has complained about the quality of the toilet paper in the new building. APPL will fall by $10 on the news.
Not sure why Appell Petroleum Corp's stock would drop by $10 from this news, especially because it was delisted a long time ago.
You know that you should not be looking at your mojo/smartphone while walking, right? Switch to reality and watch environment not your electronic friends and messages. There is no problem with glass or any normal obstacles. So do not try to fix reality - adopt proper behaviors.
We Floridians know all about the pain of walking into a glass, it really hurts especially if running. Come the end of the winter when all the sliding glass doors get shut for the summer and AC there is hardly a year goes by someone doesn't smash straight into one and bounce back. The solution here is to hang cheesy little dolphins, alligators etc. from suction pads at eye level which when sober are sufficient warning. Apple might want to opt for a more sophisticated eye catcher such as a hanging Toy Story characters.
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Don't fall for it. “people familiar with the incidents” is just too easy. Not saying the building doesn't have issue. Any building will have ones, even Frank Lloyd Wright's. But there is narrative to sell and that narrative is Apple is failing.
There's literally no excuse for this as Apple has been using glass for walls for decades and have been dealign with this issue for just as long.
It's appears to me, from this photo that there are two vertical posts at the center that lead into the cubicle. I would think that would be enough info for the eye to catch some cues. I guess it really is the survival of the fittest if Apple employees can't negotiate glass better than birds. However, I don't like the idea of Apple taking down visual cues employees put up merely to maintain some clean design factor. I think safety should be more important than pure design.
I do find it strange how Apple is always being singled out as some company that isn't allowed to make any mistakes in judgment. No company is perfect because no humans are perfect. I don't believe every mistake can be caught. I would have thought the Space Shuttle Program would have been the most trouble-free program ever developed but even so, there were fatal Space Shuttle accidents despite things being double- and triple-checked. There's just always chance of an error. On Youtube there are lots of videos about engineering mistakes, so I'm sure Apple isn't the only company that makes these subtle mistakes. Apple Park is a huge building and some problems are bound to creep in.
The new building is probably still under warranty/AppleCare so the geniuses can repair the cracked glass for $29.
Mountains out of molehills perhaps?