For most of the tech world Apple seems like the place you want to work. It's a huge company that would be nice to have on your resume, and there seem to be perks galore. For designer Jordan Price however, working at Apple was more than he could handle. After walking out on Apple, he took to Medium to share his thoughts.
Price says there were lots of meetings and rigid working hours that made his experience difficult. Most of all though, it looks like his boss was a problem for him.
On the last day it appears Price's boss made one too many insult jokes. Price could no longer focus on his job, but only on what he should do in terms of staying vs leaving, so he left.
Check out the source link for the full read at Medium.
Price says there were lots of meetings and rigid working hours that made his experience difficult. Most of all though, it looks like his boss was a problem for him.
Then my immediate boss (Let’s call him Tim the producer), who had a habit of making personal insults shrouded as jokes to anyone below him, started making direct and indirect insults to me. He started reminding me that my contract wouldn’t be renewed if I did or didn’t do certain things. He would hover over my back (literally) like a boss out of Dilbert and press me to finish some mundane design task that he felt urgently needed to be examined. He was democratic about his patronizing and rude comments, but it didn’t make me feel any better when he directed them towards my team members. I felt more like I was a teenager working at a crappy retail job than a professional working at one of the greatest tech companies in the world.
On the last day it appears Price's boss made one too many insult jokes. Price could no longer focus on his job, but only on what he should do in terms of staying vs leaving, so he left.
Then at lunch time I wiped the iPad data clean, put the files I had been working on neatly on the server, left all their belongings on my desk, and I got in my car and drove home. I left a message for my boss and told him he’s the worst boss I had ever encountered in my entire professional career and that I could no longer work under him no matter how good Apple might look on my resume. The third party company that contracted me is furious because I’ve jeopardized their relationship with Apple, and of course they feel that I’ve acted highly unprofessionally by walking out. I’m not really proud of myself for doing that, and I do feel terrible for destroying the long relationship I had with the recruiter who helped me land the interview. This is all an especially difficult pill to swallow because I was so excited to work for Apple. I’m not sure if this will haunt me or not, but all I know is that I wanted to work at Apple really bad, and now not so much.
Check out the source link for the full read at Medium.