Both MacStories and Boy Genius Report have written today that Apple will be holding a series of meetings on Sunday, May 22 for its US retail staff.
MacStories writes that a "trusted source" has informed them that Apple "will hold an all-hands employee meeting in US retail stores", additionally MacStories notes that the meetings will start at the unusual time of 7am.
Boy Genius Report adds some additional information, in line with MacStories the site notes that Apple is holding mandatory meetings on Sunday, May 22 saying that "Most meeting are scheduled for the morning, but there are evening meetings as well."
On a separate note BGR claims that "a solid Apple source" has informed them that Apple "may be planning something big for its 10th retail anniversary this Thursday the 19th", BGR offers the following run down of information:
- There’s an overnight shift planned for around 10-15 individuals at each Apple Store to work from late Saturday all the way through mid-Sunday.
- During the overnight shift, it’s going to be required that employees lock cell phones in the main office. They will also have to sign an NDA with Apple.
- There are a wide variety of roles, we’re told, for the overnight shift. This includes all visuals staff, a manager, a business team member, a few Genius team members, one back-of-house employee, and a few generic Apple specialists.
- Apple stores have apparently already received hardware to install, and are expecting more hardware to come on Friday or Saturday. All materials that Apple stores have received have been instructed to be under lock and key until after close on Saturday night.
- Apple employees will be putting up black curtains at all stores so that people walking outside cannot see inside.
- Employees have had to download gigabytes of data from Apple corporate labeled, “training” in a password-protected zipped folder that won’t accessible to managers or anyone else until Saturday afternoon.