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I agree it’s unacceptable. I happened to work there for both periods before and after 2009 at large flagship locations. What a different that policy made. It wasn’t just once a day. It was every time you left the building. If you smoked during a 15 you would have to wait in line potentially to get out. Then lunch, then again for the other 15 and then when you left for the day. After big all hands meetings it would take even as long as half an hour sometimes to get out.

It wasn’t the bags that made a difference it was that you registered all your Apple products and they would check the serial numbers of them all every time you left, for everyone so the security guy had his spreadsheet and would lookup every single device you were leaving with. I couldn’t imagine what it would be like now with AirPods, Apple watches, iPhones, let alone the employees that liked to bring an iPad or work laptop to do other work during breaks.

darkvader said:

Wage theft in the US is costing employees billions of dollars every year.  It may even be the biggest total theft loss that Americans suffer.

It's absolutely unacceptable that any company refuses to pay employees for time that they are forced to spend on the employer's premises.

Any company doing this should have to pay not only the stolen wages but significant punitive damages, and there should be prison time for executives who put policies in place that result in wage theft.

JeepMan said:

ihatescreennames said:

GeorgeBMac said:

For myself I guard against robo calls by keeping a landline.   I give that number out to all but a very few, select people and businesses  Then, unless I'm home and recognize the caller, I just let it go to voicemail.  So far, knock on wood, it seems to be working.

But, regardless, I welcome this new screening tool.
I would also welcome an iOS enhancement that differentiates calls from a number in my contact list from those that aren't -- with an option to either silence the call, give it a different ring tone, forward the call to my landline, or send it to voice mail.    That doesn't seem like it would be hard to do.

Well, iOS 13 is getting this:

“Silence unknown callers

A new setting protects users from unknown and spam callers. When the setting is turned on, iOS uses Siri intelligence to allow calls to ring your phone from numbers in Contacts, Mail, and Messages. All other calls are automatically sent to voicemail.”

I think this feature might be my favorite thing for iOS 13! I'm looking forward to several of the new things but robo callers are extremely annoying and I get them a lot.

Indeed. It’s the reason I upgraded to beta and works great. I have not answered a spam call since upgrading and I used to receive one or two per day at minimum.

Fraud is just a whole other level in China. I remember in China seeing someone buying something in a convenience store and the cashier literally checking not just every single bill, but dropping coins, equivalents of pennies even, on the counter to listen to the tone that the coins would make as a way of detecting fakes. Also, I remember seeing repair fraud when I worked at an Apple Store 7+ years ago and reporting it to management. They just shrugged. The same shady looking guy with a coke nail came in every single day and when we looked him up was visiting every single store in the area everyday to get his iPhones that somehow looked fine but never turned on, swapped out. I figured he was washing serials for stolen iPhones. This was before activation lock mind you.

Apple makes so much money it took them years to notice this and still it's a minor impact to their bottom line. It's amazing the scale that this reached in China though.