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Tim Cook Reminds Employees 'Apple Is Open' After Australian Retail Store Employee Bars Black Teens
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You presented it as a source as a response to unobtainium, and even took the users name who posted it originally out of the quote. Anecdotal musings of other posters are not really evidence to discredit particular users statements. Which is exactly what you tried to do.
There are no "facts" in the post, @Nuvi hasn't taken the time to add in a link or to even suggest where he's got that information from.
@Nuvi could have simply plucked all this out of thin air, as far as we know. If they can provide us with some sort of link to where they've garnered this information from, then its worth considering, however requests to do this, seem to have fallen on deaf ears.
Where do you come up with your accusations and indignations? I didn't try to discredit anyone or anything. I simply responded to a comment from Unobtanium with my reasoning.
You seem to exhibit some extreme sensitivities to simple conversation.
It wasn't an accusation...... I was explaining why your reasoning isn't credible until @Nuvi shows us some detail as to where the points they've made have come from.
Well, thanks for explaining to me why my reasoning wasn't credible... to you!
It was, and remains, credible to me. Sorry if your thought manager hasn't penetrated my thick skull yet.
So I guess if @Nuvi made a post stating pigs can fly, then that would be credible evidence to you, that pigs can fly.
Ill make a note of that for future reference.
No, unlike you, I don't put specific posters into buckets labeled "This one is always right" or "This one is always wrong". I read a specific post, and may or may not find agreement with the information contained therein.
I guess it must be much easier for you... you don't have to read the posts at all. The posters handle tells all.
Are you sure about that, because you've tried very hard to go out of your way to argue with me and throw accusations around the last couple of days.....
My only arguments with you were over specific posts. Accusations? I think not.
I think I might have even added "thumbs up" to one or more of your posts. Maybe not, but I think I did.
You seem awfully sensitive.
I apologize for any personal observations I might have made. I admit guilt in getting a little worked up when I read something that I find myself in wild disagreement with.
I will do my best to contain any comments to the subject at hand, rather than any musings on the poster him/herself.
I hope that Tim Cook has a good look at the behaviour of Fiona Martin from Apple Australia in this incident.
Her creative PR move was to slander the kids to news agencies "off the record", behind their back, with no right of response. All along, the kids and their school principal were begging for access to the store's vast surveillance footage of the incident to defend against Fiona Martin's fabrications. Apple refused. Absolutely disgraceful.
Highpoint is my local Apple Store, and it is the most central of the Apple Stores in this city. The mall is the third largest shopping center in Australia in size, and the mall has over one billion dollars of revenue per year. The $300 million renovation is quite impressive, and saw Highpoint awarded the best property development of any kind of the year.
http://www.thefifthestate.com.au/pr...named-victorian-development-of-the-year/73447
This is absolutely not true.
Her creative PR move was to slander the kids to news agencies "off the record", behind their back, with no right of response. All along, the kids and their school principal were begging for access to the store's vast surveillance footage of the incident to defend against Fiona Martin's fabrications. Apple refused. Absolutely disgraceful.
Highpoint is my local Apple Store, and it is the most central of the Apple Stores in this city. The mall is the third largest shopping center in Australia in size, and the mall has over one billion dollars of revenue per year. The $300 million renovation is quite impressive, and saw Highpoint awarded the best property development of any kind of the year.
http://www.thefifthestate.com.au/pr...named-victorian-development-of-the-year/73447
This is absolutely not true.
These are likely due to the fabrications "off-the record" that Fiona Martin was providing to journalists. She wasn't aware at that stage that the school principal was speaking to the media and the kids/principal were trying to obtain the surveillance footage of the complete sequence of events. What's more, she hadn't spoken to the kids or the principal at this stage. Hopefully the kids get access to this, so they can prove her conduct was quite simply unacceptable.
The way she did it was so creepy too. Claiming that Apple was justified in their behaviour by making serious false accusations about these kids. She knew that these accusations would then be published without her name, or Apple's name attached.
It's a shame that the store staff are being blamed, but not a mention of this Communications Director. Asking someone to leave a store is one thing, trying to manipulate journalists to mount a race-fuelled attack on these kids is something else.
This thread is direct evidence of the damage to these kids reputation by her.
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