To be fair and again I say this still against tipping, the ask is 3% and 5% as the standard options and a custom option.
Still against it, but the ask is not 15% as an option to display.
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Unionized Maryland Apple Store Workers Request 10% Raise and Option to Accept Customer Tips
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To be fair and again I say this still against tipping, the ask is 3% and 5% as the standard options and a custom option.
Still against it, but the ask is not 15% as an option to display.
Agree completely. I’m not saying I wouldnt use time off for a beloved pet dying but to ask for it in negotiations is crazy. plus they asked for 45 days off for it!!!!!
DOUBLE TIME for any overtime they work is crazy too. Time and a half is the normal everywhere else in every industry I have worked in.
they should just close this store like you said.
45 days for loss of a pet? Yeah no. At that point it's an adjustment disorder. Use your standard leave and see a therapist if you can't get over an old dog dying. I'm sorry but a dog is not a parent or a child.
FDR...second worst President ever. Not exactly someone we should use as a model form society.
They are not asking for 45 days PER bereavement leave. Just 45 days total per year and want to include pets and close friends as a reason to take it.
Just close the store. The employees can all go to a traffic light and hold a sign “Times are difficult. Need help” and maybe someone stupid enough will give them some coins.
I ONLY agree with the last 2 sentences of your paragraph. but I do agree with those two sentences about tipping whole heartedly. I would rather pay more for a meal and be done with it than have to tack on money for tip.
The corporations pay for what the job responsibilities are. NOT how much they make. paying people based on what they make sounds like the Marxist idea that says something like ‘from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs’. the job market should not be forced to be means tested in any way. If a Corp wants to pay way above average then they can but shouldn’t be forced too.
or maybe if you make more than your neighbor, should you pay more at the grocery store for the same items than they do???
I hope this store goes out of business, only people that get a TIP is a waitress, whoever cuts my hair and my girlfriend 😂
That's not always true as there are many jobs where your pay is affected by how profitable the company is. That's a pretty common aspect of upper-management roles, but there is no reason that the same concept could not apply across the board.
Those roles typically are presumed to have an influence over how profitable the company is.
Drones in a retail store are generally unlikely to have any influence over profitability whatsoever.
And now you have to define ‘close friend’. I’m actually quite pally with our postman.
It's reasonable to allow bereavement time off for pets and close friends but allowing it for up to 45 days is what's ridiculous. Up to 45 days might make sense in certain circumstances (person working has to deal with all the associated issues of a deceased parent -- accounts, cleaning out a house, etc.) but the problem is allowing pets and close friends to be in that 45 days of paid bereavement is unreasonable. Apple currently offers up to 2 weeks, I believe.
They sure do. They produce value for the company and the better job they do the better value for the company. Sure, their impact might be limited compared to other roles, but it's not zero, otherwise the company would not need them.
Not even British Royalty gets this much tip!Imagine you buy a brand new Apple Product at an Apple Store and an Apple Specialist hits you with this...
There will never be a day I'm ever going to be tipping at an Apple Store.
Again..... You're making it out to be that if a pet dies, they get 45 days off in one go. That isn't the case.
They are wanting 45 days of paid bereavement leave a year, NOT PER LEAVE. So if they need 2 days to grieve a lost pet, they can. Then lose a parent and need 10 days, boom they can. A close friend died, 7 days. All of that coming out of that 45 day bank.
The actual contract language will likely spell out the max limit of days off for a loss of a pet to limit abuse. Don't assume if the union gets this, the company will just give it to them cart blanc and not want contract language to prevent giving out all 45 days in one go for a loss of a pet. If the company lawyers/negotiators fail on that, that is their own fault.
Is it confirmed that they are asking 45 days paid bereavement? It's not uncommon to have up to a given number of days paid and the rest unpaid, e.g. 2 weeks paid and the rest unpaid.
Even unpaid, obtaining the right to get unpaid bereavement would still be valuable as it removes the need to negotiate an unpaid leave.
I wish tipping would go the way of the dinosaur in the US. Tips were traditionally mostly only given to food servers and bartenders. Now people expect tips nearly everywhere. Tipping someone at the Apple store, what a joke! Nope, I don't think so. To be honest, I'd rather not have to tip servers and bartenders either. Pay them more and build it into the price. I make a good living, I'm fine with it. Besides, it will probably (and should) end up costing less than the total bill plus the tip anyway.
The way to make it stop is to simply stop participating, without exception. Tip $0 everywhere.
Wow, really? Clearly you've never ordered groceries or food that was to be delivered. Try not tipping these people. They straight up won't deliver the food or groceries, even though it is their job to do so. I'm referring to companies like InstaCart, Door Dash, Uber Eats here btw. I shouldn't have to tip a delivery driver, as I am already paying the delivery fee. The company should pay them more money. If that means I have to pay a little more for the goods I am having delivered, so be it.
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You can tell these people don't have much working experience.
And I'm all for workers rights. We should treat our employees with respect and compensate them appropriately.
But all they're going to get is less hours to keep them under the premium pay. What is First Aid Certified and why does that call for an extra $1/hour? How many incidents are happening at a Walmart? And do they lay out what's considered a close friend?
And I'm all for workers rights. We should treat our employees with respect and compensate them appropriately.
But all they're going to get is less hours to keep them under the premium pay. What is First Aid Certified and why does that call for an extra $1/hour? How many incidents are happening at a Walmart? And do they lay out what's considered a close friend?