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Apple tells some retail employees to reapply for their jobs or be laid off
- crop_rotation 4y agoGiven that hiring is a costly process, and laying off employees is not free either, what does a company like Apple get by doing this to retail employees. Is saving a few million even worth it if it ends up in articles like this. Regardless of the financial and business soundness, this seems like penny pinching with bad PR. A small dip in the advertising budget might have been a better option if the few millions were so important.
- JohnFen 4y agoThis sort of thing used to be rather common: "Justify your job, or you're laid off".
- crop_rotation 4y agoIt might have been common in companies with low margins and not much room to overspend. In a hyper competitive low margin commodity industry, the push to keep costs low ultimately decices a company survive or not. But that is not the case here. The amount saved for a year might not even equal 1 day's ad budget.
- qgin 4y agoThe title is misleading. They're not being asked to justify the job they have. These jobs are being cut. Apple is telling people to apply for new roles within the company.
- JohnFen 4y agoHere's an interesting brain glitch. I read the article but my mind had been primed by the title. The article never came out and overtly said that a layoff had occurred, so my brain kept interpreting it through the lens of the title. Even as I read it, the article seemed odd and not to make complete sense to me -- because my dumb monkey brain was trying hard to interpret it in a way that agreed with the title. However, your comment cleared all that fog away instantly.
- r00fus 4y agoTFA: "Employees in Apple's Development and Preservation teams, which handle construction and maintenance of the company's retail stores" So with the related news about the M2 being halted due to weak demand, what we're seeing is the demand is collapsing due to interest rate hikes (and other weaknesses in the US economy). These aren't retail employees, they're construction overseers of new Apple stores.
- Beaver117 4y ago>if it ends up in articles like this >bad PR It's sad that people get laid off but can you really say this kind of article changes anyones stance on buying Apple products?
- wkearney99 4y agoIt certainly reinforces the many good reasons to not give any money to the company.
- nextlevelwizard 4y ago>Is saving a few million even worth it if it ends up in articles like this. Are you not going to be buying Apple's product anymore? I personally don't have any experiences with any Apple retail staff, so this won't affect my opinion in anyway.
- justinclift 4y agohttps://archive.is/ldkmR https://archive.is/ldkmR
- qgin 4y agoTitle doesn't quite match the content. They're not reapplying for their jobs because their jobs are being eliminated. They're being told to apply for new jobs within Apple.
- lisasays 4y agoThe main point is that their jobs as they knew them are effectively being taken out from under them.
- nextlevelwizard 4y agoWhat is your point? This is normal stuff that happens with companies when economy is in down swing. You see that your profits are going down, you analyze what part of the company could be downsized or eliminated to increase profits and you do that.
- lisasays 4y agoThis is normal stuff that happens with companies when economy is in down swing. Right, and they're normally called "layoffs", and have regulatory and other strings attached. Which this company seems to be trying to do is achieve the same end but on the sly, by trying to disguise it is something else (and giving the employees the illusion that they have some choice or influence in the matter). Effectively making an instance of constructive dismissal (in the sense of effecting a "change to employee relationship"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal
- sourcecodeplz 4y agoWell at least they are not laying off thousands and instead give them other jobs.
- lisasays 4y agoThey don't "give" them those jobs. They make them execute a stressful performative action (i.e. the whole groveling process of applying for a job, all over again) which they might very well fail.
- nextlevelwizard 4y ago>the whole groveling process of applying for a job You might have some unresolved issues. Applying for a job definitely shouldn't be a "groveling process"
- wkearney99 4y agoWhen is the last time you had to undergo a process like that? Never?
- nextlevelwizard 4y agoAre you implying that I am jobless or that I got a job without interviewing? I however did not grovel and beg or feel humiliated about getting a job, so I guess never is the correct answer. This feels very much like this eternal "white-board coding is bad" take which always boils down to the arguer having twisted view of what the point of interviews even are and having mental/socializing issues.
- earthling8118 4y agoNo, but I'll make the claim that you haven't been in the trenches of the modern job search at the commoner level. Perhaps you had a good network, held a job for long enough, or have had some other circumstance. Groveling is an understatement for how bad of an experience the job search can be.
- ftxbro 4y agoI feel like if you are reapplying for your own job then you have already been laid off.