Either that or look for another job...Cause you know its coming soon...........
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Apple Offers Employees Paid Time Off to Get Vaccinated
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Tim: Those weak pathetic fools, I didn’t move their due dates.
Christopher Lambert: I don’t think so!
VP 1: How much are we paying to have Christopher Lambert here just to respond to Tim?
VP 2: Actually not that much. In fact sometimes he pays us.
VP 1: Can we replace him with someone-
Christopher Lambert: There can only be one!
VP 2: This never gets old.
Christopher Lambert: I don’t think so!
VP 1: How much are we paying to have Christopher Lambert here just to respond to Tim?
VP 2: Actually not that much. In fact sometimes he pays us.
VP 1: Can we replace him with someone-
Christopher Lambert: There can only be one!
VP 2: This never gets old.
APPLE STAY OUT OF SOMETHING YOU CAN'T STOP OR CURE.. WE APPRECIATE THE HELP, BUT STAY OUT OF IT !
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NO, THEY NEED TO STAY OUT OF THIS COVID MESS.. UNDER STEVE, APPLE NEVER EVER GOT INVOLVED WITH POLITICS SUCH AS COVID OR INFLUENCING THE COUNTRY.. APPLE NEEDS TO STAY THE *** OUT !
Because it’s called macrumors. An no a lot of companies won’t pay you to go get vaccinated you gotta go in your own time on your own days off. Good on you Apple for continuing to be one of the front runners.
Ohh give them a break in some places you can take more than half an hour to get to a vaccination centre might have to wait an hour to get vaccinated and half an hour back an apple offering to pay sounds like you just need to pull your head in go get vaccinated Of your money to charity that you missed out on
Scary? You mean it’s better to have to miss work and not get paid. Wait, this is sarcasm isn’t it?
That's the real reason behind these news, not that Apple is having a socialistic epiphany all of a sudden. For what is worth the outcome is positive.
Apple just wants the 5G chip in the vaccine to help get better reception on the phones, so this way once everyone gets vaccinated they can put less components in the phones themselves and they can save money that way, way more than they're "giving up" through the paid vaccine time!!!
Good for Apple for doing right by its employees! Let's bring this pandemic to an end!
A different perspective that’s not in any way unique in tech: In most of the tech field open floor plans have become the norm, private offices are rare even for directors and such, so I already had a habit of scheduling one of our meeting rooms or working from home on days I needed to concentrate. All of that means I’m not really looking forward to my boss trying to get us to come back to the office at some point. It’s a petri dish and less comfy than home.
At home in my apt I have a home office, a 34” ultra widescreen and a 27” monitor on my desk, full access to brewing my own coffee or going out to a coffee shop, access to restaurants, etc - all the perks you’re touting for going in and no commute.
I have no desire or need to come in and given I’ll have been doing my job for give or take 18 months fully remote by the time we do reopen the office it’s pretty clear I can do my job just fine from home.
Hell, even in the office pre-pandemic I spent half my day on zoom with folks in the company in other offices or fully remote members of the team, so it really doesnt matter if I’m in the office or not except that my boss probably wants to justify the rent on the office space eventually.
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Same over here. Most people seem to have adapted quite well to work from home too. It is only mostly team leads, project producers and some managers alluding to people to go back asap with some weird ad-like message “we have been doing better than ever historically but we know you miss people, we know you want to go back, so we will work extra hard on that” of sorts... maybe brought by HR or above levels pressure or maybe it makes the jobs of those a lot harder or stressful, but the message is out of touch with reality.
I decided to equip myself with considerably better extra equipment paid out of my own pocket (and then got serious about personal projects after work) and have become to love it. Would maybe be down for Friday’s closing meetings and then go for beers at the end of the work day with the colleagues but that’s about it... dreading the day I’ll be dragged back.
Agreeing here, the paid leave and squeezing donuts being equated to socialism and communism is largely wrong. If I “squeeze the socialism out of a donut” like some comments said, I’ll be very very disappointed. A donut is the product of capitalism, paid leave is the product of capitalism... in a communist country you don’t even take a paid leave, you just leave, even chain the leave for a month completely, you will be (maybe) paid nevertheless the same as before and the same as others since work output, merits and other efforts aren’t rewarded.
It’s the usual pitfall of taking into account an ideology at the last step and disregarding that the whole machine before it is another... i.e, ignored all about the workers, technology pipelines, automation, procurement, trials and errors, iterations and research for a hundred years, etc etc etc that made the donut today be mass produced for a tiny tiny fraction of the original cost to make it giftable so easily was in big part by rewarding hard work.
Also, kudos to you for thriving your business and your people to be in good health.
I'm sorry---I should have been more clear--I wasn't referring to vaccines.There's currently no definitive, notable reduction in transmission due to vaccination (there are published anecdotes/thories -- but nothing definitive), due in large part to the relative newness of the strain(s), and therefore lack of historical data. There are excellent papers in Science, Nature, and of course other peer-reviewed academic journals.
Sharing this link just as a resource (there are many) where this is discussed:
Fact check: Scientists do not yet know whether the COVID-19 vaccine reduces transmission of the virus
A Facebook post, shared hundreds of times since Jan. 15, claims that the COVID-19 vaccine does not prevent transmission of the disease, meaning vaccinated people will effectively become “silent spreaders”. It uses this as an argument against introducing health passports...www.reuters.com
Conclusion:
"There is no conclusive evidence to claim COVID-19 vaccines do not prevent people spreading the disease. Scientists are not yet sure of how the vaccine affects transmission – and this is currently undergoing research. People are still required to follow restrictions even after vaccination to account for this uncertainty."
I can't remember where I read the damn piece (I am looking in my history for a link), but the article was talking about COVID mutations that for biological reasons are so mutated they can't be transmitted out of one person to another (or something like that). It wouldn't apply to all mutations, however.
I will keep looking. It was an interesting article.
Presently, my firm pays my car note and gas as additional compensation.
I would probably just take the str8 cash if possible, however.
I guess I don't get the sarcasm.
Truly--what does any of this has to do with Socialism?
Are people saying Apple is socialist? I think that's laughable. Tim Cook is now a billionaire and I bet he swims in his gold coins at night like Scrooge McDuck. I certainly would.
I think the sarcasm is that many of my fellow Americans throw an absolute fit anytime the government does anything that resembles helping others, and they always attach socialism and communism to their argument against “handouts”. The post you quoted was most likely poking fun at that mentality.
Same here on the personal equipment. I’ve got 2 4k monitors at my desk, with 2 TVs (I work at a television network) - I don’t have anything near as nice at my desk. I actually prefer my home office- I never get dragged into morning meetings.. and don’t miss the office politics. Funny part about this going back into the office thing is the same person who never shows up to zoom calls is the one that can’t wait to be back into the office. Then they say we have bad communication because we’re not in the office. It’s like.. dude... you’re the last person to show up to an in person or zoom meeting anyway.. you just suck at communicating.
I’m just trying to explain the context for why I think the original comment was sarcasm. Obviously I am aware that Apple is not the government. I’m not the person you need to argue with.
agree
unfortunately, while most will be encouraging employees to get vaccinated, they won't necessarily provide additional time off
yes, but most companies have a fixed number of hours or days allowed each year for sick leave. And in many cases the total paid time off, sick plus for vacation or other personal reasons, is not that much (a couple of weeks). So getting even a couple of hours without needing to use part of that fixed allowance, is a real benefit.
Sure, but see my previous comment above
exactly my point (but you said it more succinctly)
Even if they could do it, eligibility would still be based on current phase and local conditions. And actually I think they could do it, they could contract with one of the pharmacies or another private medical provider and do it that way. But since their employees are mostly teleworking right now, it might not be any more efficient than what is already being set up and underway in their communities
That is an absolutely true and fair statement.
I've received both vaccine shots and drove 2 ½ hrs each way to get them, because when the vaccine distribution was first getting set up in my own local area, the available appointments were limited and you had to be very lucky to grab one before they were all gone. I found appointments available and it was important enough to me that I gladly took a full day (x 2) of my own personal paid time allowance to get vaccinated. The week after I received my second shot, my company announced that they would cover up to 2 hrs for any vaccine appointments, but it wasn't retroactive to when I received mine! Well, that's the breaks! I don't regret doing it that way or using part of my own paid time off allowance. I'm grateful to have been able to get the vaccinations when I did, and I feel a whole lot better now that I'm fully vaccinated and can relax (just a bit).