• toad@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    I worked for applecare. I was instructed to lie and threat the customer badly. They spy on people.

    You’re a simp

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      10 hours ago

      I worked for Apple for three years on the Genius Bar in the UK and was never told to lie. In fact when on sales we would be told to downgrade customers if they wanted a MacBook Pro for instance and their usage could be the same with a cheaper Mac.

      Not a simp and I find your reductive take quite insulting. I’ll happily call out Apple for its use of cheap labour or its prices etc. just the phone works as I want. It ain’t that deep mate.

      You can see my post history where I have discussed my time at Apple several times.

      Also, it should be noted that working for Apple literally changed my life. From going nowhere at 38 to getting diagnosed with ADHD with the help of Apple then them affording me all the time I needed to upskill as a software engineer and then leave Apple. Working for Apple in the UK is the best I was ever treated by an employer and I’ve had 80+ jobs.

      Nothing is binary.

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        8 hours ago

        Yea we were told that “downgrading an OS wasn’t possible” (it’s totally possible) during the battery-draining update debacle. They bricked tons of phone, then we had a townhall where they self-congratulated on the fact they were making more money on repair than selling new phone.

        My time there was more akin to a cult than to a job. Those people fucked each other, lived with each other, hang out with each other and think they’re superior being. Also they’re literally spying on people.

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          5 hours ago

          Not my experience so maybe it depends on the store manager being shady.

          I will say it was quite culty though. They had us do a guard of honour for that Mac Pro machine ugh.

          In my store all the people on the Genius Bar were just nerds and not really fan boys. The sales staff however many of them were fan boys of Apple.

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            3 hours ago

            I was at headquarters. Cool if you had a good experience, im not saying workers are bad and we all have bills to pay. But the company itself. I’d rather not work for them ever again nor use their shit.