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  • Apple hourly workers feel helpless under punishing pressure & mistreatment

    To me this started with the much hyped, overpaid, angela ahrendts.  One used to get the exclusive attention of the genius during an appointment, now you are in a cluster where you share the attention of the expert.  If you had apple care, the person helping you seemed to have wide latitude to address your problem even replacing the item outside the expiration date by a week or two.  This shopping appointment approach is foolish though i cannot lay that bit of stupidity at her feet.  What on earth does burberry have to do with apple?  Burberry isn’t as successful as Louis Vuitton.  It was always a second tier ‘luxury’ brand.  Bottom line apple isn’t what apple used to be and that is no compliment.  Kudos to those employees with whom I have interacted with that were pleasant, professional and thorough.  Only once did I have to upbraid a snotty jackass that now you tell me makes $13/hour.  With that he couldn’t avoid the merchandise he hawks.
    elijahg
  • Apple Watch outsold all of the Swiss watch industry by sales volume in 2019

    Can we take this opportunity to call to mind all of the haters who dissed the Apple watch with such authority and fervor?  I have watches worth literally tens of thousands of dollars sitting in a jewelry case while i wear my Apple watch worth about $500 each and every day.
    lkruppStrangeDaysGG1visualzonejony0kudutmayjbdragonJWSCwatto_cobra
  • Former Apple retail chief Ahrendts says 'mission accomplished,' denies reported criticisms...

    She was horrible!  Mission Accomplished?  Didn’t a president say the same thing?  It was no more true then than now.  The only accomplished mission is getting rid of her.
    kestralGeorgeBMac
  • Former Apple retail head Angela Ahrendts upset 'finely tuned balance'

    lkrupp said:
    Oh here we go again. Apple is the ONLY, repeat, ONLY tech company where a customer can walk into their store and get service on their devices, get questions answered, make purchases and this thread has already been hijacked by the perpetually bitching crowd that hammers away at anything Apple. Fire Cook, fire Ahrendts, fire Federighi, fire Schiller, fire ‘em all!
     
    1. When very crowded, my local store had a stale air smell in it (better ventilation system?). 

    2. -- Poorly trained staff:  "Ask five people -- get five different answers
    -- An emphasis on sales over service
    -- Being pushed to make online appointments for service -- which the Apple store essentially ignored (You got treated the same whether you had an appointment or just walked in)

    3. Spent 25 minutes with a friend trying to buy
    iPhone a month or so ago. Waiting for someone to serve us. 

    4. Apple stores used to be a fun destination/experience - I hope it returns to that with the new VP!

    5.  My belief is that Steve would have never allowed AA within a 100 yards of an Apple employment line.

    6. I agree with the majority here, and have been carping on this for years here.

    What a load of unadulterated bullshit. What must it be like to go through life bitching about everything, never satisfied, always disappointed, always negative and throwing shade on everything and everybody. 
    Seek therapy post haste.  My own and those of many of my friends, all loyal apple customers with well over $300,000 of purchased apple product have been highly displeased with the store experience under angela. I have never been oriented towards being grateful for crumbs..a first class experience is a first class experience.  One that is anything less is in fact less.  There are doubtless some merchandise at macy’s that one can find at Bergdorf Goodman but you (well perhaps not you) go to Bergdorf for an environment, an experience and staff you can’t find in macy’s.  What must it be like to go through life happy for whatever is served.   Some of us were not only born to better but achieved better.  Now go be happy at your local walmart.

    GeorgeBMacchemenginelijahg
  • August halts sales of flawed View doorbell, promises fixed version 'in the near future'

    for those who are popular and wish to screen visitors, the video doorbell is wonderful...for those who get 2 visitors a year ,the easter bunny and santa claus, i could see why it might not make sense for you.
    glynhwatto_cobra