Another #AppleToo leader is on paid medical leave.

Apple’s recent actions seem designed to chill worker organizing. In August, employees launched the #AppleToo website to allow workers across the company — including AppleCare and retail — to submit stories about workplace harassment and discrimination. Parrish and Cher Scarlett, an Apple software engineer, then began sharing these stories on Medium.

Didn't even know there was labor organizing going on a bit at Apple until now

Look at the Medium stories, this one is recent and really something.

One month after returning from a surgery where I told our SL and Sedgwick I may have to take some unexpected trips to the bathroom while I am recovering I was belittled and screamed at by a Leader in our break room in-front of multiple coworkers for punching in from lunch and using the bathroom for 5 min instead of immediately going back on the floor. When I reminded him of my surgery he simply shrugged his shoulders and said you should have gone before clocking in, now you’ve stolen time from the company as if I was the first person in history to take a bathroom break on the clock.

Suing for abuse

My story is not short and already public. I am suing Apple in federal court. Underwood v Apple in the Southern District of Georgia. I reported verbal, emotional, and physical abuse, as well as sexual harassment and assault.

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Holy shit this one

Before the coffee chat rule (interviewing internally without telling your manager), I informed my previous manager I would like to find other opportunities within the company. He flipped out and threatened to fire me within one month or he would push me to the AppleCare team.

On that day, I tried to commit suicide.

The ER concluded that he was just having a problem with his communication. The upper management told me that “It is very normal in a tech company to be sexist”.

I’m still suffering from PTSD until this day.

  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Several of my managers would use intimidation as a tactic to prevent any attempts to improve our working conditions. One of the most egregious examples was when we collected feedback from a large group of employees for a project postmortem. We guaranteed the feedback would be anonymous. Our entire team was present at the meeting. The manager read the first piece of feedback to all of us, which was something to the effect of “You guys take feedback poorly and don’t listen to us when we have pain points that need to improve.” The manager not only laughed at that and dismissed the notion out of hand that the team needs to improve, but he proceeded to say “I think I know the poor sport that wrote this, I’m not going to name names, but…” and then he proceeded to describe the employee in a way that there was on doubt about who it was, then insult him for several more minutes. He was not only totally flippant about disrespecting his subordinate, but did so in front of all of us to set an example.

    Even with clear evidence of wrongdoing, Apple is more than willing to ignore bad behavior if admitting to it would make the company look bad. A team member had previously made sexual advances at another employee and was denied outright. Some time later, that team member physically lifted that employee up and spun her around at a beer bash in front of hundreds of others, despite her making it clear that any advances were unwanted. The offender later came to me and directly threatened violence against her romantic partner. I warned both them about his threats, but they were too afraid of retaliation to do anything, both from the offender and from management; they were afraid they would be dismissed for “causing trouble” despite doing nothing wrong. I asked around trying to find anyone to report it to, and I was turned away every time.

    :geordi-no: :gulag:

    :geordi-yes: :gui-better: