What’s it like to work for the richest and most admired company in the world? Boy Genius Report writes that being an Apple employee might not be on par with being an Apple fan, in Ex-Apple managers spill dirt on what it’s like to work there, say Apple execs “are nuts.”
Do you love working long hours, spending a lot of time away from your family, and dealing with insanely demanding bosses? If so then there’s a little company in Cupertino that just might be the perfect place for you to set up shop….
“It’s a stressful job, there’s a lot of responsibility, and you always have to be on,” said Melton, who also described Apple execs as “nuts.” “I mean, it’s not that it’s not fun, it’s not that it’s not fulfilling, it’s not that you don’t get to work around all these brilliant people. The bad side effect is they’re all, like, workaholic, psychotic brilliant people.”
BGR has more, including a link to the full interview with two former Apple managers.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- EEOC files first transgender suits against private employers — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- Three more courtroom defeats for EEOC — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- Is Your Company’s Dress Code Discriminatory? — via In House
- A Monday Night Football lesson on workplace religious accommodations — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- EEOC: Trolling for plaintiffs — via EmployerLINC
- Don’t Fire An Employee When She Tells You She is Pregnant — via Employment Discrimination Report
- Employers’ Hands are Tied: New Washington D.C. Law Goes Beyond Ban the Box — via employeescreenIQ Blog
Social Media & Workplace Technology
- Are Websites Places of Public Accommodation? — via HR Defense Blog
- Keeping Secrets on Social Media: Part I and Part II — via Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- Two Courts Permit Defendants To Be Served on Facebook — via Above the Law
- Ello: The Hot New Anti-Facebook Social Network — via Technologist
- Ello vs. Facebook — via The Not-So Private Parts
- What Messaging Tool Should You Pick to Tell Off Your Boss? — via The Tim Sackett Project
- After Torching Laptop, CEO Feels the Heat of Sanctions — via Suits by Suits
HR & Employee Relations
- Your Former Employees Want a Reference, Here Is What Your Attorney Thinks About That — via Suzanne Lucas, writing at Inc.com
- It May Not Get You Arrested, but it May Not Keep You Employed — via WSJ Law Blog
- How to Deal with Bullies at Work — via Harvard Business Review
- Happy New Year! OSHA’s Revised Recordkeeping Rule — Major Implications on Employers — via Employment Law Lookout
- “No Hire” Agreements: Unlawful Collusion or Necessary Self-Protection? — via The Labor Dish
- Do Supervisors Have To Save Employees During An Emergency? — via Evil Skippy at Work
- Your Employer Wants To Indoctrinate You With Their Politics — via Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
Wage & Hour
- A Reminder About the Dangers of Employee Misclassification — via Employment & the Law
- How To Decertify an FLSA Collective Action — via Minnesota Employer
- Has Wal-Mart Helped to Expand the Scope of Joint Employment? — via The Emplawyerologist
- Julia Roberts Would Not Be Impressed: Mystic Pizza Cited for Wage/Hour Violations — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Giving an employee a piece of the action may violate the FLSA — via Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Off-the-Clock Security Checks — via Wage & Hour - Development & Highlights
- Leave Laws, FMLA, and the Workplace — via Blogging4Jobs
Labor Relations
- Remember that Job You Had 11 Years Ago? Well Good News! — via Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- NLRB Postpones Creation Of Employee Right To Use Employer E-Mail For Union Activity — via Labor Relations Today
- Steelworkers Playbook on How They Plan to Reform Labor Law — via Matt Austin Labor Law
- Labor Board Gets an F for its Treatment of A-List — via EntertainHR
- The Death of Courtesy and Civility Under the National Labor Relations Act — via Socially Aware Blog
