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Bragging about unrelated topics in the first paragraph, and touting a $15M donation while sitting on $200B in cash. So magnanimous. By the way, get back to work
by caymanjim 7y ago
Bragging about unrelated topics in the first paragraph, and touting a $15M donation while sitting on $200B in cash. So magnanimous. By the way, get back to work.
- klohto 7y agoIs there a guide on how much are you supposed to give? Would $200B be good enough? Why criticize how much is one giving
- exclusiv 7y agoWe have tipping guidelines so yes someone should create one. They probably got 15m in earned media from the PR alone.
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- busymom0 7y agoSeems like you missed the next part where he’s talking about matching two-to-one and also everyone getting paid even when closed. That’s more than enough they are doing. Also I dislike when people comment on why so and so is only donating X amount of money.
- caymanjim 7y agoI would never criticize how or whether an individual donated. Apple is fair game. The entire announcement is self-congratulatory PR. Yeah, it's good that they're donating some money and matching some employee donations. They could have just done that. They turned it into a PR item, fluffed it up with other self-aggrandizing anecdotes, and announced what, to them, amounts to a token gesture. I don't go around town bragging when I drop $20 in the veterans' bucket at Walmart.
- busymom0 7y agoEven if they do it for the PR, what's the harm? It just encourages even more companies to try to out play Apple and more companies to follow suit. I really don't see any harm - I think it actually helps more companies from doing good gesture. This is also quite surprising coming from me because usually I am very cynical.
- totalZero 7y agoThey don't have 200B in cash. Their cash stockpile has been cut down immensely since they started doing Accelerated Share Repurchases.