Employees at Apple’s first unionized store want tips from customers, 10% raise

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10 points·thunderbong··8 comments

With customers being hustled for the tips, why would they even buy at the store, while you could get the same thing online? Evaluate the product in the store and then order from home. Apple has only few, most popular, configurations in the store anyway. Everything else is needed to be ordered online. The stores will become showrooms, which they already mostly are, I think.

>tips

So how long until this store gets closed due to the public being turned away?

My guess would be between 6 months and 2 years.

That's a poor way of getting the public to support you.

Tips are looked at as a taboo in the UK already. Let's hope tipping culture is confined to the US.

They should ask for 14% instead of wanting tips.

I suppose there must be some discomfort when you realise you work for one of the richest corporations in the world yet you are relatively poorly paid.

I like Apple products but there is no way in hell I would work for them.

$22/hr starting pay for retail is poorly paid? To essentially be a glorified cashier?

Come on. It doesn’t matter how much Apple makes or is worth. You get paid for the job you do.

I’m not discounting the workers or their positions, simply that retail, like fast food, was never meant in the history of the world to be a full time career. And if you wanted a career in that company, you would leverage your foot in the door at the lowest level to climb the corporate ladder through promotions and taking on more responsibility.

Unskilled labor is still labor. A living wage is needed to live regardless of the labor performed. If the job cannot pay a living wage, it need not exist.

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