14 DAY TRIAL // AppleInsider reports that several Apple employees told them that each employee received a shiny second-generation iPod shuffle digital music player with the company's compliments. The "morale booster," as some call it, extends from corporate all the way down to the company's retail division, several employees told AppleInsider.
This is not the first time that Apple indulges their employees with unexpected gifts. In January 2005, all Apple employees received 1GB first generation iPod shuffle. Seeing as last year we all received additional vacation time, an iPod shuffle is a small investment for a company to reward its employees for the best quarter in our history, an employee said then to AppleInsider.
Seeing that, back in 2005, every employee received an iPod shuffle exactly after it was launched and immediately after the best quarter in Apple's history, a pattern kind of emerges as the second generation of iPod shuffle has just hit the market and the last quarter was, yet again, the best one in Apple's history.
Well, some might start to believe that Steve Jobs wants to make a habit out of making such surprises to employees as in an email sent out this week, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs reportedly told employees to expect their new iPods by the end of the month, AppleInsider writes.
The only thing some might ask themselves is what kind of iPod shuffle will Steve give to the employees next year, as they will surely register at least another one of their "best quarters".
Related Links: