Apple is apparently making it “harder than ever” to get remote work requests approved, with one specifically vile case where someone with an ADA accommodation was told to come back to the office:
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Zoë Schiffer at The Verge reported yesterday that Apple has now done exactly what Professional Worm John Gruber said he’d “never heard them do” - not accommodate employees with a disability. While Apple doesn’t appear to have kept the tradition of screaming at and firing people at random, it seems that they’ve inherited Jobs’ anti-remote work approach. From what I’ve read over the years, it didn’t seem to be about your actual contribution to Apple, but what Jobs could ascertain you’d contributed in the few minutes he’d give you. Nevertheless, he was the boss, and you did what he said for fear that he’d end your career. The spontaneity of meetings with Steve Jobs mostly seemed to be around whether he’d scream at you or fire you rather than any great creative force. People would actively avoid Jobs, or prepare questions to placate him so that he wouldn’t decide to end their careers based on a few minutes of meetings. He tends to get early prototypes and these were built with Steve’s needs in mind.” “We had to balance his need for volume with a French law against things that were too loud. “When we did the iPod we had to make sure it would be loud enough for Steve to hear the music,” says Dhuey.
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Steve Jobs, former CEO of Apple, once said that “creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions…you run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘Wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.” What he didn’t say was that the usual result of him spontaneously meeting someone was to terrify and abuse them, and employees would create plans to deal with his capricious egoism:
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