article over focuses on Apple & remote work. Google, Apple & Facebook prior to Covid did not support remote work. As supporter of remote work I do not agree with forcing back into the office, but depends role & business need. It is not right wing bias. It is a decision outside of politics. - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

sentinel42.bsky.social • 36 days ago

article over focuses on Apple & remote work. Google, Apple & Facebook prior to Covid did not support remote work. As supporter of remote work I do not agree with forcing back into the office, but depends role & business need. It is not right wing bias. It is a decision outside of politics.

Comments

exotech.bsky.social•36 days ago

See now you forced me to post that awful picture of myself my hair all jacked up… I hope you’re happy lol

exotech.bsky.social•36 days ago

You have one of these? That’s for ten years of service, working from home… I got it a couple of years ago. Stop talking out of your rear…
If you don’t have experience or knowledge, at least listen to those who do

Comment image

exotech.bsky.social•36 days ago

And YES it is ABSOLUTELY right wing bias, and it's opposed to the values Apple themselves say they hold. I watched colleagues lose their jobs, because Apple would not accommodate disalbities that only allowed them to work from home.

exotech.bsky.social•36 days ago

As a supporter of remote work, you should know what you are talking about, before commenting... I started with Apple, as remote in 2012 with literally THOUSANDS of others. You can go on Glassdoor to corroborate.

sentinel42.bsky.social•36 days ago

Interesting you have a made an incorrect assumption. I worked at Apple too but in the 1990s onsite. What kind of work were you doing and was it as a contractor? I can see remote as an enabler for a diverse workforce, but not required to provide diversity.

exotech.bsky.social•36 days ago

Sorry, this is a subject i am VERY pasionate about. Apologies if I came off heated... but these are my and my friends lives...

exotech.bsky.social•36 days ago

Let’s not forget the cultural aspect. Office environments often reflect dominant workplace norms that can make minorities or marginalized employees feel out of place. Remote work gives people a chance to focus on their performance without dealing with microaggressions or biases.

exotech.bsky.social•36 days ago

Then there’s the financial strain. Marginalized communities often face higher living costs, including childcare, or even just affording professional attire. Forcing people back into the office adds unnecessary expenses that hit these groups the hardest.

exotech.bsky.social•36 days ago

Forcing people to work from an office, especially when the job doesn’t require it, really doesn’t align with DEI principles. Think about it—people with disabilities often rely on remote work because commuting or navigating an office can be a huge challenge. Why make it harder for them to succeed?

exotech.bsky.social•36 days ago

My last seven years were spent as part of their Social Media team, where I was involved in worldwide moderation for Twitter, Insta, FB, YouTube. I also moderated the Apple Support Communities.

exotech.bsky.social•36 days ago

I was also part of the beta for Chat Support, and went through many phases of that project, from one-to-one screen sharing interactions, to having to handle five consecutive chats at once.

exotech.bsky.social•36 days ago

I worked in AppleCare, I was part of the TSE pilot and why Apple now offers support complimentary instead of charging per incident fees for OOW support.

sentinel42.bsky.social•36 days ago

Well, we can agree to disagree on the political bias and I am happy to discuss the topic but why so angry with me? In my time at Apple remote work was not promoted in my division of Service and Tools and pre-Covid engineering remote work was not promoted at all. I worked in diagnostic engineering.

imikepro.bsky.social•36 days ago

i'm not actually angry at you, just the whole situation... Apple did a lot of people, really really dirty... and we were gaslit pretty regularly, coming from all sides, while going through it. Top performers getting called lazy because they don't want to move to a different state? smh...

sentinel42.bsky.social•36 days ago

and I agree with you on the various aspects of remote work and what it enables and makes possible and in a lot of cases, remote work should be supported, given how good video tools are now I think it’s important to have full body language as part of communication & you can get a lot via video

sentinel42.bsky.social•36 days ago

well, it’s sad to see that Apple has fallen more into the corporate trap on the Support side of the house and it certainly is a reflection on Tim Cook’s management style and how that domino’s down into the ranks. My old boss, who was at Apple for decades, was politically squeezed out because of age.

imikepro.bsky.social•36 days ago

I didn't even realize I was on my personal account now, but I am the same person lol

imikepro.bsky.social•36 days ago

Apologies for that, like i said, it's a subject i am pasionate about, and there seems to be a lot of "they let them work from home for Covid, and now they don't want to go back" rhetoric, when the reality is thousands were hired as remote, and got lumped into that convo... intentionally... by Apple

exotech.bsky.social•36 days ago

No I was not a contractor... I would have said i worked as a contractor, not for Apple...

sentinel42.bsky.social•36 days ago

I had asked about contractor only because Apple does treat contractors differently than permanent employees and there are predominantly more remote workers in a contractor role than a permanent one in many companies.

exotech.bsky.social•36 days ago

I know they used vendors and contractors more before 2012, and are now returning to that. I think the calculus was, why pay a middle-man, when they can take credit for the job creation? Many of our jobs were created shortly after a meeting Cook had with Obama. Times have changed...

sentinel42.bsky.social•36 days ago

How goes your private attempt with a business?

exotech.bsky.social•36 days ago

Apple had a significant remote workforce long before COVID-19, particularly in roles like AppleCare, which included phone support, chat support, and social media teams. These teams were almost ENTIRELY remote, with thousands of workers operating from home as early as 2012.

exotech.bsky.social•36 days ago

You'e completely and unequivocally wrong, my own existence, and the existence of thousands of remote working peers that i partnered with at Apple over the past 12 years i worked there, LONG before covid proves that. Why comment, if you don't know?