Jasong1101

I literally brought this up in the article praising Tim Cook for not laying off.  Apple has always used contract labor.  They even give retail employees career experiences at corporate, with the carrot being dangled that they could move to Corp and better pay and life work balance.  Apple gets to pay cheaper employee for 6-12 months and the employee goes back to retail without the Corp gig.  I don’t think either one is a problem really if the company didn’t have so much cash like Apple does.  Pay people more, hire more, make health insurance free, stop inflating your stock price by buying back stock.  Apple is not perfect at all.  They just sell a ton of products.  The experience working there and shopping there has gone down every year Tim took over.  

Sorry didn’t mean to repost that.  I was just going to say I don’t think there is anything ethically wrong with it.  I’m just saying that’s why they don’t have layoffs.  Had they hired full time people instead they would have layoffs just like anyone else 

darkvader said:

Always remember that 'Genius' you think is doing such a great job repairing your computer, so much better than a third-party repair shop could possibly do, is actually working for about $13/hour.  Apple does not pay store employees a living wage.

No one makes 13 hour anymore.