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To: sinclap who wrote (85439)	9/26/2009 5:59:42 PM
From: Doren	1 Recommendation Respond to of 213185

I don't think you do. Nothing personal. I criticize Apple a lot. There is much that Apple is doing wrong but I generally don't buy your lines of criticism. 1) I don't think you understand Jobs' psychology, how it's changed and how that has molded the culture at Apple. In addition his recent brush with death has probably change him in ways we haven't seen yet. 2) I worked as a digital recruiter for some time. Apple is like any other company experiencing growth. It puts a lot of pressure on internal and external recruiters and internal resources. You can't just throw money at the problem because that has a way of escalating into price wars, but you have to be competitive. It's a tough job. The recruiters will concentrate their efforts and their money on what is the most difficult, quality upper management and engineer/coders first, probably designers second and retail pretty much down there with the janitors. They are not hard to find, it's the law of supply and demand to a certain extent. Once the demands have been met at the top they might find the time to deal with the bottom. You also have to realize Apple had no experience in the retail sphere. They had to hire some people with retail experience. There really is no precedent for their retail business and I think its obvious they've done a good if not great job at it. This is just common sense. Jobs has changed from his former imperial self, he's still an elitist for sure but as Allen mentioned he's not stupid. He knows the retail people are ambassadors, it's just that he has more pressing problems.