Company: Apple
Date: 2017-09-22
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Cliquish, cultish, no work/life balance
Pros: -discounts on Apple products
-decent hourly pay for retail
Cons: -Weird cultish attitude among coworkers and if you don't follow the attitude of all the other Apple minions, you are really looked down on and shunned.  As an Apple employee, you must bow down and worship Apple, and if you don't, you are treated like a leper.  
-In every company meeting, training video, presentation, etc., variations of the word "excite" and "innovative" always come up.  Come on, there is more to life than Apple and some of us aren't "excited" at every little "innovative" thing Apple does (or doesn't really do).
-Coworkers seem very pretentious and fake, like "I work for Apple.  I'm something special!  Oh, I care about you as long as I benefit from it.  If I don't benefit, I couldn't care less about you."  There does not seem to be genuine authenticity among coworkers and lack of actual care/concern for others and backstabbing has taken place.
-Individuality is "encouraged", however if your individual ideas don't align with Apple's culture, you should forget voicing anything in fear of harsh criticism.
-Benefits for part-time employees aren't very good.  For a company that makes billions, the benefit package for part-time is pathetic compared to full-time.
-Training is sub-par and more "fluff" than actual useful training, such as "This Apple product will change your life.  You can go to the outer reaches of space and back.  It'll blow your mind.  It's so exciting!"  Okay, how about telling me something ACTUALLY useful, such as what the device actually does, its tech specs, etc. and not silly garbage like "It'll change my life."  
-Sometimes, you're expected to do company training on your OWN time because you're only allotted so many working hours per week on part-time and you have no time to do the training while working in the store.  Therefore, to get training done and not go over your allotted working hours, it's expected of you to do training in your "free" time and not be compensated for it.
-Asking for time off is like pulling teeth, even with a supposed "flexible schedule".
-Even if you work only certain days of the week, company emails/texts/calls are coming in at all times/days and you MUST respond even during non-working hours.