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Apple Workers Are Livid That Tim Cook Saw “Melania” Movie Hours After CBP Killed Pretti (theintercept.com)

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Cook has openly embraced Trump, particularly in his second term, attending the president’s inauguration, presenting him with an engraved golden trophy, and giving money to the White House to help construct the president’s $300 million pet project ballroom.

The relative workplace calm may be over. “I hope we never find out, but I seriously started wondering what our leadership would do if an Apple employee was summarily executed by our government,” wondered one employee.

Many workers claimed hypocrisy between Apple’s longtime professed commitment to progressive values and causes and the extent to which its CEO has cozied up to the Trump administration. “But but but…. we changed the Apple website to MLK last Monday, so that cancels out.” Another pointed sarcastically to the company’s recent announcement of Black History Month Apple Watch bands. “Went to hang out with the guy who didn’t even acknowledge MLK Day and took away park access on the day,” commented one worker.

For some, the affront was personal. “As a lifelong Minnesotan and an Apple badged employee for over half my life I feel pretty abandoned by the company that has told me it stands for humanity more times than I can count,” wrote another worker. “Silence on ICE violence speaks volumes.” Another pointed out the “Three retail locations in the Twin Cities and not a peep” from Cook. “This isn’t leadership. This is an absence of leadership.” To which a colleague quickly countered: “I disagree, this IS leadership. This is intentional, nobody travels to the white house by mistake.”

An Apple employee who has spent decades at the company said they had noticed a marked cultural and political shift within Apple under Cook’s tenure. “A lot of people are talking about how Steve Jobs would have never given a gold bar to a politician,” referring to the 24-karat gold trophy Cook presented Trump at the White House in August.

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[–] Novis 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry for your loss. I've watched family die and it's horrible to witness (stroke for my mom. MULTIPLE strokes). I feel you for. BUT I have to say that Steven Jobs had a type of pancreatic cancer that actually gave him an EXCELLENT chance.... if he had listened to his doctors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreatic_neuroendocrine_tumor NOW I'm not going to act like I'm a doctor and know if he actually had a real shot but it's absolutely true that he DID IGNORE EXPERTS in his treatment. AND, Jobs died in 2011. That leaves us a gap of 5 years before Trump got elected the first time and 13 year gap for the second election. There is a lot of time of people stroke Jobs' ego if he were still around. A lot of time for the power and the wealth to seep into him and corrode any semblance of morality he had left. Jobs was already a NIGHTMARE to work for and if he had lived that would have probably only had gotten WORSE if Apple's fortune continued going in the direction it has in reality. He already wasn't a good person, how much of a stretch would it have been for him to bend the knee and kiss the nazi's ring? Given how much other major tech CEOs have done so already, I don't think Jobs would have contradicted that trend. BUT this is speculation from me at best, the man is dead. MY POINT is that Jobs was still a piece of work and was already on the fringes of "can't trust established experts cause they don't know better than me." He would have felt right at home with the anti-vax movement, would have rallied AGAINST mask mandates, etc etc etc. He was already so aligned with the Right, I just don't see him taking a stand against Trump who could have promised him and Apple company a free "do whatever the fuck you want" pass, as long as he played nice with Trump. IDK, I don't trust the popular interpretation of what "Steve Jobs would have done if he were he were still around" in this political climate.

[–] comador@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Sorry for the late reply, went to bed after posting.

My father was diagnosed in 2011 with a stage 2 c25 pancreatic neuro tumor at ucsf medical center in San Francisco, CA. My father then had a whipple done at Stanford Medical in 2012. It's there we learned he had what doctors called the 'Apple Cancer' as it was given noteriaty by Jobs.

My Dad had kidney failure in 2015, Chemo in 2017 and passed in 2018. It's a damned slow and painful death.

It's my understanding from the doctors a decade ago that survivability simply depends on the individual and while diet can help, it's neither a silver bullet nor a guarenteed life extender.

I'm not a doctor either, I sincerely don't know what's changed in 10+ years, but what I will agree with is this: If he, Jobs or even my Dad were diagnosed sooner there MAY have been more time for them both, but even after everything they learned with Jobs, medicine isn't any closer (or wasn't when I was going through it) at understanding how these neurocrine cell cancers advance.

Btw, the chemo my Dad got was absolutely worthless. It may have given us more time with him, but it shortened his quality of life so much we regret letting him get it.

Regarding Jobs himself. He was somewhat of an anarchist and I'll give you two examples:

I knew one of his secretaries... Blonde gal, energetic, super cute with freckles whose name escapes me 27 years later. Anyway, she handled several of Jobs personal affairs with one being his cars. Jobs would buy a new Lexus coupe every 5-6 months so he could drive without a license plate. Why? So he could neither be tracked individually nor be cited easily by traffic cameras. Once, he supposedly got a speeding ticket and I recall this secretary going to court saying it wasn't him to get it thrown out. Jobs sincerely didn't like authority.
At the great mall in Milpitas circa y2k era, all the companies off McCarthy would converge there for lunch. Long tables filled with people and CEOs like Jobs would head these tables to give lectures or argue the direction of the industry with others. Jobs on one of those two occasions I met him there was told by the Mall security to be more quiet and he abruptly screamed at the guy to arrest him for it and if he couldn't arrest him to just fuck off.

Jobs was a piece of work and at least from my experiences shows he probably wouldn't bend the knee so readily. Not saying he wouldn't, but the dude had a problem being told what to do, zero doubts. No one will know though, Jobs is dead.

edit: Typos from writing this on a phone while in a meeting lol.