Apple employees refuse office return because
it will make company ‘whiter, more male-dominated’
Telegraph [UK],
by
Joe Pinkstone
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
5/1/2022 6:26:30 PM
Employees of the tech giant Apple are revolting against a plan to get staff back into the office for three days a week, claiming it will make the company “younger, whiter and more male-dominated”. Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, has said his proposed “hybrid working pilot” for US, Europe and UK employees is an attempt to balance the corporate benefits of in-office working with the personal advantages that working from home gives staff members. A group of US-based Apple employees have formed an organisation dubbed “Apple Together” and claim the initiative is “only driven by fear”. The unnamed staff have sent
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 5/1/2022 6:43:41 PM (No. 1143658)
So fire them.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 5/1/2022 6:59:43 PM (No. 1143675)
#1 that was easy!
82 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Tom Paine 5/1/2022 7:15:45 PM (No. 1143682)
They have every right not to return to work. But, Apple has every right to fire them. That's freedom of choice.
111 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
sw penn 5/1/2022 7:19:32 PM (No. 1143687)
'...it will make the company “younger, whiter and more male-dominated”...'
Because, you know, when you're working at home in your pajamas,
you're not young...
or white...
or male...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Krause 5/1/2022 7:41:20 PM (No. 1143701)
Hopefully, there free therapists available.
20 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Kate318 5/1/2022 7:41:44 PM (No. 1143702)
What little snots these libs are.
74 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
billsv 5/1/2022 7:58:03 PM (No. 1143711)
Let them lose their lucrative stock options. They cannot best if they no longer work for Apple. No need the pamper them.
31 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Faithfully 5/1/2022 8:05:31 PM (No. 1143720)
So, they are racists.
58 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
3XALADY 5/1/2022 8:09:02 PM (No. 1143726)
I wonder if the companies have made a mistake letting people work from home. I heard a late 30's young lady say 'I'm not returning to the office!' She is too happy working in her jammies. And I wonder how productivity would be measured over the last couple of years.
33 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
navybrat 5/1/2022 8:11:41 PM (No. 1143731)
There is no such thing as an employee who cannot be replaced.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 5/1/2022 8:13:01 PM (No. 1143736)
Just when you think these people can’t get any dumber or more self-absorbed, they surprise you with stuff like this.
They should all be told if they don’t come to the office, they don’t work there anymore.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
formerNYer 5/1/2022 8:15:28 PM (No. 1143740)
How does going to the office make it “younger, whiter and more male-dominated”?
#1 is correct
54 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rich323 5/1/2022 8:37:55 PM (No. 1143757)
Replace them with illegal aliens.
30 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
skacmar 5/1/2022 9:38:31 PM (No. 1143819)
It will be the same as before Covid except with a few new staff. These whiney babies are the same sniveling fools who are crying about their student loans, climate change, too much free speech on Twitter, having to pay bills, be adults, their confusion about their sexual orientation, and the stress they are under by being expected to actually show up to work. I'm amazed they aren't all on a diet of Xanax and baby formula.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
lakerman1 5/1/2022 9:42:52 PM (No. 1143823)
Those employees must have failed Math in college, as well as Logic.
29 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 5/1/2022 9:47:31 PM (No. 1143827)
Give me an alternative and I will buy anything that’s not Apple.
33 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 5/1/2022 9:47:40 PM (No. 1143828)
You ain’t no Youuunion Weerkers is ya? Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!
15 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 5/1/2022 10:23:03 PM (No. 1143847)
The employees call it diversity - I call them racists. Apple should fire them for being anti-white.
45 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Omen55 5/1/2022 11:30:33 PM (No. 1143878)
They will be easy to replace.
27 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
PChristopher 5/2/2022 12:05:36 AM (No. 1143901)
People this stupid should not be working for a tech company
39 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
mifla 5/2/2022 3:51:58 AM (No. 1143975)
No worries, white males are the easiest employees to fire.
14 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
Rinktum 5/2/2022 5:16:01 AM (No. 1144006)
Why is this premise not blatantly racist? Could anyone ever get away with stating the same and inserting black instead of white? We have lost our minds if this allowed to stand. We must stop the blatant racism that is being created for the sole purpose of diving the country. It will work if it stands. Just look at the violence that is being perpetrated on whites and Asians. They are being targeted. It’s going to get ugly because people will not stand for it. Are democrats pushing for Civil War II? It certainly appears that way.
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Liberal Goldbricks have figured it out. They want to smoke pot st home all day. So they accuse the company of racism and sexism.
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With regards to RINKTUM at No. 19; I, for one, sure hope so, but first, they had to be sure they, the lefties, have all of the guns!!!
It's no wonder the saying being the MOST truthful; Take away the guns, you will take away our freedom!!!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/2/2022 7:10:47 AM (No. 1144068)
I guess that they have no problem with the tens of thousands of Asian males who actually build the Apple products in China. We know that a majority of them are male because the Chinese have spent decades aborting most of the female babies.
25 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 5/2/2022 7:16:02 AM (No. 1144071)
This is the perfect situation to state… ‘
‘whatever.’ As you put your panties in a knot I’ll be enjoying life.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
hershey 5/2/2022 7:24:18 AM (No. 1144078)
What did Trump say on his show?? You're Fired!!!!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
janjan 5/2/2022 7:40:29 AM (No. 1144091)
The key word here is ‘employees’. Unless they have a legally binding contract that stipulates that they don’t have to work in an office then they can either comply or quit. If I had an employee refusing to follow company policies they would be on the curb. Apple needs to decide who’s going to run the company.
21 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 5/2/2022 8:08:04 AM (No. 1144108)
Apple employees just admitted that only white males would get off their duffs to go to work while the slackers stay home to work being un-motivated POC. Apple slackers prove a truism about lazy, lay abouts slacker, gimme dats is correct. Racist.
12 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
red1066 5/2/2022 8:21:28 AM (No. 1144115)
So, the thought of white males in the office is considered a horror show? Maybe they should think for a second and realize that without those horrible white males, there would be no Apple and they wouldn't have a job.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/2/2022 8:21:46 AM (No. 1144116)
They can always try being unemployed.
12 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
chillijilli 5/2/2022 8:22:57 AM (No. 1144118)
Every Apple employee should be given the following choice:
1. Agree to wear a burkha daily so nobody would know or care what you look like or who you are
OR
2. Sign a yearly-renewable official Declaration of Identity. Verify that you indeed identify as a Native American Transie Midget.
There. White guys are gone. {{{POOF!}}}
11 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 5/2/2022 8:25:46 AM (No. 1144124)
Fire them and get people that want to work and appreciate a job.
17 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
Kafka2 5/2/2022 8:26:30 AM (No. 1144125)
This does not make any sense. If this is the same workforce that Apple sent home to work remotely, how did some of them change into white, dominate males before they returned? I didn't know working from home could do that.
18 people like this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
Norway 5/2/2022 8:43:20 AM (No. 1144135)
Mass formation psychosis--classic example.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
The Remnants 5/2/2022 8:43:46 AM (No. 1144136)
You wonder how many breaks these work-at-homers take.
Feel sorry for the kids who have teachers who would prefer to teach from home.
Bye-bye American work ethic.
Much too white.
Much too male.
Sounds much too racist.
Much too sexist.
Probably think it is much too American too.
7 people like this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/2/2022 8:45:03 AM (No. 1144137)
No matter that it was young white males that built Apple from the ground up. Most females can't program for crap and the only minorities who can do this technical work are Asians and Indians.
8 people like this.
Reply 38 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/2/2022 9:10:13 AM (No. 1144161)
Just as Reagan once said to the Air Traffic Controllers! Companies aren't born to give you a safe place to rant. They come into being to perform a service and IF you do work there, you will get paid. Period. That includes this company whose name is not spoken in my house.
8 people like this.
Reply 39 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 5/2/2022 9:15:32 AM (No. 1144170)
In response to #9, it is a person's work ethic that is called into question. Just because someone shows up at an office doesn't guarantee productivity.
5 people like this.
Reply 40 - Posted by:
RWPollock 5/2/2022 9:32:50 AM (No. 1144190)
Fire them. Typical liberal. They think the workplace is theirs to play with and use as their private political pulpit. Didn't what happen at Disney and Twitter sink in? More spoiled liberal brats showing their entitlement mindset. It is time these babies are taught a lesson. Firing them will teach them that they are not special and they can easily be replaced ( probably by someone in India for half the salary and half the headache to the employer). A lesson they should have learned years ago.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Republic Can 5/2/2022 9:41:46 AM (No. 1144203)
I agree #39.
My output took a drastic dive after returning to the office after two+ years of working from home, delivering animation and graphic support to NAVAIR contractors here in southern Maryland at PAX River Naval Air Base. It was mostly because of constant meetings, reviews and hallway chit chat that the distaff side pushed.
Great! So how would companies, run exclusively by black females, improve performance? Excuse me while I suit up in my Kevlar business suit and steel-toed combat dress boots. It's gonna get interesting at the (up-armored) water cooler. :^)
7 people like this.
Reply 42 - Posted by:
moebellini3 5/2/2022 9:46:32 AM (No. 1144210)
Fire every one of those sorry as*es. People are sick and tired of hearing these hypocrites whine. Got it.
4 people like this.
Reply 43 - Posted by:
Hermoine 5/2/2022 9:50:23 AM (No. 1144215)
This should be a no-brainer for Tim Cook, but it won't be.
8 people like this.
Reply 44 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/2/2022 10:08:11 AM (No. 1144233)
Well you have two choices, Resign or be FIRED. Next 'real issue'.
4 people like this.
Reply 45 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/2/2022 10:20:40 AM (No. 1144256)
This is all about the wants of much less than one percent or 200 employees, out of 165,000 or so of the total number of Apple employees, with those 200 employees obviously being members of an extreme whacked out class of the Apple workforce. So why is this internal Apple issue considered considered public news? Certainly not because it is news to anyone outside of Apple, but because the fake media claims that it is news because the magic word “diversity” popped up in the employee’s supposed reasoning.
4 people like this.
Reply 46 - Posted by:
padiva 5/2/2022 10:23:11 AM (No. 1144263)
this is the quote I left on the refrig when I left my X. The quote applies to this bunch also.
"For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future but an excuse can last for life."
~~ Eric Hoffer
6 people like this.
Reply 47 - Posted by:
Zigrid 5/2/2022 10:38:41 AM (No. 1144283)
Getting tired of the snowflake's tantrums ....having run my own company...I can tell them...it's all about profit...and if that's a problem for them...you're fired...
8 people like this.
Reply 48 - Posted by:
nelsonted1 5/2/2022 10:56:23 AM (No. 1144304)
The cemeteries are ful of indispensable men
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
faceincrowd 5/2/2022 10:57:14 AM (No. 1144305)
Sounds like somebody doesn't want to come back to work. Lazy.
5 people like this.
Reply 50 - Posted by:
faceincrowd 5/2/2022 10:59:45 AM (No. 1144307)
There is going to come a time when these entitled little aholes are going to look back and be sorry they ruined what they had.
6 people like this.
Reply 51 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/2/2022 11:10:34 AM (No. 1144316)
Let them quit. No unemployment insurance and a huge blot on their copy books...
3 people like this.
Reply 52 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/2/2022 11:19:10 AM (No. 1144326)
FTA:
Thus far, the letter is believed to have garnered around 200 signatures, roughly 0.1 per cent of the organisation’s 165,000 employees.
Around = less than 200 or this writer would have said “more than 200”.
Stunt.
2 people like this.
Reply 53 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 5/2/2022 11:27:22 AM (No. 1144331)
These kids are just lazy and they're using racism as an excuse not to go to work outside of "snugly" home where you don't have to dress, shower, shave, wear makeup....they are lazy!!!
4 people like this.
Reply 54 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 5/2/2022 11:37:48 AM (No. 1144340)
As long as they wear a mask at home while working and use hand sanitizer hourly i see nothing wrong with it.
4 people like this.
Reply 55 - Posted by:
NorCalXplnt 5/2/2022 11:50:15 AM (No. 1144351)
Not surprising coming from the lunatics in California today. Their letter says in part, “It will make Apple younger, whiter, more male-dominated, more neuro-normative, more able-bodied. In short, it will lead to privileges deciding who can work for Apple, not who’d be the best fit.”
The fools hadn’t thought out that their self-hating presence makes the company’s payroll more, “whiter, more male-dominated, more neuro-normative, more able-bodied.” Easy solution. There’s the virtual door, don’t let it hit you in your, “whiter, more male-dominated, more neuro-normative, more able-bodied” a55 on the way out!
2 people like this.
Reply 56 - Posted by:
Geoman 5/2/2022 12:39:10 PM (No. 1144387)
Fire and replace them with young white males, you know...the kind who invented Apple and innovated them to market dominance.
4 people like this.
Reply 57 - Posted by:
mc squared 5/2/2022 12:47:32 PM (No. 1144399)
Life is full of choices.
2 people like this.
Reply 58 - Posted by:
Scout Finch 5/2/2022 1:37:58 PM (No. 1144440)
0.1% of Apple employees. It would be irresponsible to change company policy for 0.1% of employees.
1 person likes this.
Reply 59 - Posted by:
KTWO 5/2/2022 1:50:08 PM (No. 1144459)
Why don't these people resign? Aren't they ashamed of working for a company founded and led by white males?
1 person likes this.
‘'...it will make the company “younger, whiter and more male-dominated”...'
Huh, how does that make any sense at all ?
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Reply 61 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 5/2/2022 2:34:15 PM (No. 1144494)
I guess because only white males can get up, get dressed in the morning and also drive a car.
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Reply 62 - Posted by:
Safari Man 5/2/2022 3:36:41 PM (No. 1144545)
It's extremely difficult for Apple to terminate employees of the protected classes. I had to work for several months doing the job of a protected-class individual so management could build a case against him. I never found out what did happen, but he/she did stop appearing in the office. It was known that I shouldn't inquire.
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Reply 63 - Posted by:
joew9 5/2/2022 4:12:17 PM (No. 1144570)
Every time I have had to work with people who are working from home I find they are not getting the job done. Working from home is a bad idea for many companies.
When I have to work with other company facilities that are offsite I find I have to wait a day or more to get a response for some small question/task I need from them.
The Mexican plant will send an email that they have had to stop production because of some issue.
It usually takes two days before they will respond to explain the details of the problem to me so I can investigate and come up with a solution. Meanwhile the production line sits idle.
On the other hand when the Chinese plant has an issue they will respond to me almost immediately even when I know it is 3AM their time. They seem to panic about the production line sitting idle.
0 people like this.
Reply 64 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 5/2/2022 11:01:23 PM (No. 1144856)
To put it mildly these racist are nuts and should be fired.
0 people like this.
Reply 65 - Posted by:
leonardo 5/2/2022 11:08:39 PM (No. 1144860)
Apple Computer was established by WHITE GUYS one of whom was Steve Jobs. If anyone has a problem with those founders please let Apple know ASAP. There was no “equity” then and no “equality of outcome,.” only equality of OPPORTUNITY. Anti-Whiteness is RACISM, hypocrites.
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Comments:
Only about 200 employees have signed on to this edict. But their whining and bellyaching about diversity and needing maximum flexibility indicate they are spoiled brats.