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Inside Apple Campus 2 and its vast expanses of sedak glass
I know! As if they just went ahead with production flippantly and with zero due diligence – as if not a single structural engineer was involved in such a massive architectural project. It's like me asking Michael Schumacher to remember to keep his tires inflated.tyler82 said:
This is one of the most pompous statements I've read in a long time.wizard69 said:
Really, it puzzles me that this sort of construction was even permitted, I can't imagine load bearing glass holding up well at all in an earthquake. Especially the theater entrance where there appears to be no supplemental support at all. I can see the roof there coming down on people with massive pancakeing effect.
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Tim Cook to host fundraiser for House Speaker Paul Ryan, other Republicans
Read Scott Adams' blog on Trump, which I find insightful as to his use of persuasion. It is something I think people of all political leanings would appreciate.
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Apple Stores suffering from 'cult' atmosphere, advancement barriers, says UK staffer
Good point. Ever been to a fancy restaurant? Some of those servers and bartenders are there for decades! What about financial people who do wealth management for the 1%? Envy will not get you far in any form of service business. There are jerks in every job. Whiny patrons, ungrateful patients, entitled complainers.Rayz2016 said:
Yes, definitely a case of framing the questions to elicit a desired response, but I wouldn't expect anything more from the click-driven online press these days.slurpy said:BI: How do the staff internally talk about that? The retail staff can’t afford the products.
BI: But it’s still the case that the majority of the people working at the store simply cannot afford the products on a regular basis.
BI: Do staff talk about how ridiculous it is to work for Apple and not be able to buy anything?
BI: Do Apple employees regard this as political in any way? Because this is how inequality works. You’re selling devices worth thousands every day and you’re not being paid enough to live in a one-room flat near the store.
The interviewers reasoning is biased simply because it applies to just about every retail chain in every country.
How many car salesmen at Lexus can actually afford to buy a Lexus?
How many retail staff at Harvey Nichols can afford to buy their clothes at Harvey Nichols?
How many estate agents can actually afford to buy the houses they sell?
And as for being able to afford to live near an Apple store? Has this idiot seen where Apple stores are built? How much does this journalist (and I use the term loosely) think you'd have to earn to live anywhere near an Apple outlet? About £100,000 a year I reckon.
I think this article really leads to a much broader question than the relative wealth and happiness of Apple's retail staff; the real question is, what can we do to get professionalism and integrity back into journalism.
All folks should know of Fundamental Attribution Error. Per Wikipedia it "is the tendency for people to place an undue emphasis on internal characteristics (personality) to explain someone else's behavior in a given situation rather than considering the situation's external factors." You don't know what a person has been through and you have to be optimistic and open to the idea that they don't mean to be mean. You have to be Panglossian, however self-delusional, to survive in that field – it's not for everyone. -
Apple details efforts to ease environmental impact at Irish data center
Apple is one of the last companies I would worry about regarding environmental impact.
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Eric Schmidt says he uses an iPhone, but claims to prefer Samsung's Galaxy
That's a bunch of Schmidt.
