Same Problem at South Jersey Store. Environment SUCKS! Managers Stink, and have a chip on their shoulders. They need professional Staff to manage these people, and not a bunch of kids that get rapidly promoted through the ranks! As soon as they get a little power, then its all down hill from there.

...its only a matter of time before young Testicles shows up. He ought to be all over this story like st**k on sh*t!

Must be a serious issue though to engender this kind of solidarity.

I think it speaks volumes when non-unionized workers walk out in unison.

Apple Retail /= Apple Corporate. While most of the retail stores are excellent front ends for the company, some of them are atrocious. My friend's ordeal at the Reno store made me want to go in there and beat some heads.

the management are Steve Jobs illegitimate children ; ). He was quite a terror back in the day. Manager Lisa 1, Manager Lisa 2, Manager Lisa 3--send in the clones. Don't worry they're here.

in my long history in retail (younger days) management was either a blessing or a curse.
you get these guys that have no people skills in a management position and things can go down quickly.
don't know what "abusive" entails in this case but in my experience it doesn't take much for some of these people in power to get big heads.

Who exactly are the "creatives" in a Apple Store?

And they'd better be careful about who they call a Genius.

After working for more than 5 year @ an Apple Store I can understand why this is happening.
Sure all the Apple store strive to provide the best customer experience/interaction possible, within reason. But they never practice what they preach with the staff. Many of "Managers" are paper pusher with authority, who never really listen to the staff. And to be honest HR is a joke, they really don't investigate or listen to the concerns of the employees. They automatically back the managers, without doing any research. Having worked for Apple Retail for more than 5 years, I honest say that this is not a surprise. They need to sit down and re-evaluated how the staff is treated. Last I checked happy employees produce more and actually like returning back to work.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but labor troubles at Apple go back at least as far
as the 1980s. Lack of privacy, obsession with secrecy and "non-poaching"
agreements have been cited in news articles over the past few years.

Would anyone here be surprised if Steve Jobs went Ronald Reagan on
this store and fired everybody?

Works wonders when everyone is on the same page.

Ditto for me. Management was a disaster at my store and the kids they hire drink the kool-aid, then get promoted with zero experience. I was a genius that came to the retail side with more experience than any of the stores deserves and was supposed to oversee the geniuses... yea.. They pay c*** for a go nowhere position, but paint a rosy picture. Reailty: it's a mall job. We weren't allowed to get paid for more than 40 hours, but would often have to be in the store or the mall for more than that. Required "breaks" would bring you in at 39.9 hours...no more. HR did nothing at all. Best move I made was quitting. It's no wonder the stores have a turnover rate like pancakes.

and not have a job to return to on Monday. They'll all lose their jobs, and they'll deserve it no matter the circumstances. You don't like your job, leave. There's no need for theatrics as they generally don't work. Apple will notice nothing and take no action until they come to it on their own. This will have nothing to do with it, only sales numbers will.

one of their new store managers :-)