<p>and look for tracking by REFERENCE and not the usual one with numbers. </p>
<p>Enter your country and ZIP code and the phone number you used as a reference when ordering the phone. You may have to try a couple unless you remember what you used. It could be the number of the phone being upgraded or your home number.</p>
<p>PS Again, I really think that no real information will come from this as the delivery will be delayed until Friday 9/21 for everyone.</p>
<p>Scheduled Delivery:
Friday, 09/21/2012, By End of Day
Last Location:
Arrived - Anchorage, AK, United States, Monday, 09/17/2012</p>
<p>We have 2 coming and they are going through Anchorage instead of Nashville. Interesting they are coming from China, HKG, Korea and then Anchorage. I had to use my number (primary number) to get the info.</p>
<p>Or we like to think this is a geography lesson:</p>
<p>The exotic might get from ZhengZhou in China to Check Lap Kok in HK to Incheon in Korea to Anchorage in AK to the final destination.</p>
<p>The less exotic might get the hillbilly version of the iPhone5 as it travels the moonshine route from Nashville via KY to its final destination! Heeyah! :)</p>
<p>Am in the market for an upgrade -currently have an iPhone 3 (I know, what a dinosaur). </p>
<p>My company will pay for the iPhone 4(whatever initial -don’t know) -the cost above that for the iPhone 5 would be up to me (including new chargers, etc).</p>
<p>I use my iPhone all the time as a business phone, mapping, Internet, email, camera and various apps. I have an ipad2 but use a Windows computer for work.</p>
<p>Can someone explain to me in small words if /why I should go to the iphone5.</p>
<p>Nobody has used them outside of insiders and reporters so all we have to go on our specs and reputation. It would be hard to say whether or not the device is right for you.</p>
<p>This is my first smartphone so I’m just hoping that it will be a good experience.</p>
<p>From your article, workers were given a biscuit and tea when woken up to handle a production line change. Your article also states that the company cooks up tons of pork and rice for their employees. Pay is $17/day. Not a lot of money by our standards but more than the $30/month factory pay that I saw when I was in China in the 1980s.</p>
<p>Most of Apple’s U.S. employees aren’t doing a whole lot better than the workers overseas assembling Apple’s goods, especially considering Apple earned over $400,000 in profit per employee last year…$11.25/hour working in an Apple store! Apple’s got a good thing going for itself.</p>
<p>How is this different from McDonalds, Staples, Kohls, Coach, Nike, Macys, Panera Bread, Gap, Old Navy, Marshalls, Whole Foods? Store managers at the Apple Stores make six figures - that’s your career path target. Regional managers at McDonalds get that kind of pay too. That’s what retail is like. Near minimum wage at the bottom with a decent career path in management levels.</p>
<p>The entry workers at the retailers you list don’t need much in skill level to fold shirts and sweep floors. Apple’s retail ‘specialists’ armed with credit card swipers around their necks have to have some technical knowledge of Apple’s products to work on the floor in the Apple stores…they should get a shot at commissions for their sales production in addition to low hourly wages.</p>
<p>I went to the genius bar on Labor Day cause sticking my phone in rice for two days to absorb water didn’t help.
When I mentioned that my H ( who was also working that day at his manufacturing job) was getting triple time, the person helping me said that he has a similar arrangement.</p>
<p>I don’t see retail associates at clothing stores sweeping floors - in general, I think that they contract that out to workers in the evening. I would expect a retail associate to know the layout of the store and where products are. I’d expect them to have a relative idea of the pricing of their products, and the store processes and procedures including how to apply discounts and push store credit cards.</p>
<p>The daughter of a coworker graduated with a bio degree this past May and she’s working at a local Gap Store. She could get a job as a lab technician in Boston, probably making not much more but her living expenses would be much higher.</p>
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<p>Our local Apple Store opened a few years ago. There were ten qualified applicants for every position.</p>
<p>The problem with salespeople on commission is that they tend to put pressure on customers which isn’t the atmosphere that Apple wants in their stores. Apple does offer their Apple Store full and part time employees ESPP benefits though - I imagine that those Apple employees that took advantage of it are happy with it [source [Apple</a> - Job Creation](<a href=“http://www.apple.com/about/job-creation/]Apple”>Job Creation - Apple) ]</p>
<p>I have been nothing but impressed by all the Apple retail people all the floor. They are unfailingly helpful, explain things in non-techie terms, wait with me til I am confident the problem is solved or I understand what’s going on - they are not at ALL comparable to “Gap clerks who point you to the dressing room” as far as I am concerned. They seem very highly trained and knowledgeable, and I’ve brought them some challenging / complicated issues.</p>
