A group of Apple employees organizing themselves under the #AppleToo moniker says they’ve has collected almost 500 stories from current and former Apple employees about workplace issues including racism, sexism, discrimination, retaliation, bullying, sexual and other forms of harassment, and sexual assault.
The #AppleToo group began collecting stories last week.
The most common thread in the stories is “being ignored by HR,” according to information shared by the Apple Workers Twitter account.
The group plans to begin sharing some employees’ stories publicly on Monday, after it has finished providing guidance on how to report the stories to external labor organizations like the California Department of Fair Housing and Employment and the federal Equal Opportunity Employment Commission.
So far, we've received nearly 500 responses, and hundreds of stories of racism, sexism, discrimination, retaliation, bullying, sexual and other forms of harassment, and sexual assault that happened at the hands of a colleague off of campus.
The main thread? Being ignored by HR.
— AppleTogether (@AppleLaborers) August 27, 2021
MacDailyNews Take: Deirdre O’Brien, Apple’s Senior Vice President, Retail + People, reporting to CEO Tim Cook, is under the gun.
Retail should be one SVP position. Human Resources should be another. It’s too much for one person to handle competently.
CEO of Samsung: we did that first and we have over 10 000 stories!
Whiners. OMG. We’re ignored!
One gets the feeling that post millennials are obsessed with ‘activism’. It looks to me like a way to avoid dealing with internal personal issues by projecting them into the outside world. These folks should move to Afghanistan and see how they like it there. on second that, that won’t work. Lost millennials blame America for everything that’s wrong with Afghanistan, I give up. Let’s tear the whole thing down and let China take over…
Well said PJS, I ran my own business for 25+ years and sold it July 2019 and retired – thank god as I wouldn’t have be able to deal with the constant non-sense and bickering that is so prevalent in the workplace. If you are highly qualified for any position in the corporate world regardless of gender, colour, sexual preference, etc, etc you will be promoted accordingly – if you are not promoted or overlooked my advice is to work a harder, smarter, and or obtain a higher education for that promotion next time, look in the mirror for that change – that’s where it all starts – period.
We always find this stuff with the woke.
I would say it is so much more than 500 stories. From the inside it can be hell and no one listens as things are swept under the carpet.
Two words: Mil Lennials. Okay, maybe that’s one word. Did anyone READ Ashley Gjøvik website? Who would post their grammatically error-laden emails for the world to see? It’s a great read (if you can get past the poor grammar part). My favorite part is where she quotes Investopedia’s definition of “open kimono”. It’s LITERALLY the first website that comes up when you search for “open kimono”–which means that she did a search, looked at the first search result, and then RAN with the idea that Investopedia’s version is gospel.
If you keep reading her drivel, you’ll see that Apple’s HR reached out to her every time and all she did was answer them in an imbecilic and childish manner. MILLENNIALS.
Ashley Gjøvik Is a pathological woke ‘activist’ in training. This chick sees victimization everywhere she looks and she’s going to night school to get her law degree to become a champion of the tech victim class. I’d say this this was a grift, but I thing she believes her own BS and is mentally unwell.
I remember when the boomers were being blamed for everything.
How so? List the complaints…
I didn’t listen to the whining then, and I don’t now.
Then keep your mouth shut if you can’t back up your esoteric posts…
500 stories, written solely from the perspective of the subordinate, is hardly a windfall from a company the size of Apple. What is the end-game for these employees? Just to clear out managers so they can move up? Wouldn’t be the first time at Apple.
Apple under the woke leadership of SJW Cook it was only a matter of time before his TRUE rainbow political colors came out.
10 years after gaining CEO control a COMPLETE REVERSAL of PRIVACY!
Tim has turned Apple into Big Brother exactly the opposite Steve Jobs built the company to REBEL against conformity and THINK DIFFERENT!!!
Cook is a DISGRACE to the spirit of Apple and insults its founding values to the CORE.
To limit the damage and SAVE Apple from destructive woke madness — Cook must GO…