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Legal & Disclosure<br>Apple Compared My Neurodivergent Disability Adjustments to Dog-Sitting Under Tim Cook’s Leadership
The full 38-minute recording of the call where Apple withdrew the job it had already decided to offer me — released in full, for the first time.
Niall George Horn<br>19 August 2026
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Me and Lucy. The headset is AI-generated — I do not own an Apple Vision Pro . And for the record, Rad Akbari had no idea I had a dog: dogsitting was his hypothetical, not my request.
What Apple’s CEO hopes to be remembered for
Play: Tim Cook on his legacy, CBS News, 13 August 2026
“I hope that people say I was a good and decent man.”
What his company said to me, on a recorded call
“…if someone’s reason is similar to yours or if someone’s reason is ‘hey I just need to babysit’ or ‘dogsit’, whatever…”
Two years and two months apart. The second one is what Apple’s Talent Acquisition Leader for EMEA Tech compared my disability adjustment request to, the day after I was told my offer was coming.
In brief
In June 2024 , after ten interviews and nearly three months, Apple told me my offer for an R&D role on Apple Vision Pro would arrive within 24 to 48 hours.
Believing the job was mine, I disclosed sensitive personal detail about my disabilities: that I am autistic and dyspraxic , and that I had been diagnosed with ADHD during the final weeks of the interviews and had only just started medication for it. I asked for one adjustment — a phased start, building up to the three office days the team already worked, while that medication stabilised.
Within a day the job was gone. Apple’s recruiter wrote internally that I “cannot commit to being in the office” — the disability and the medical reason both removed.
The next day I recorded the call. On it, my adjustment request is compared to wanting to “babysit” or “dogsit”, and the recruiter refers to “your offer and your contract” — while Apple has told two courts no offer ever existed.
Apple has never disputed a word of what was said. It made sure the man who said it never had to answer for it under oath.
This page releases that recording in full for the first time — all 38 minutes, unedited, with a timecoded transcript. Everything below is the detail behind it.
Timecoded transcript (PDF)<br>The clips, in context<br>What Apple told the courts
What is it like to have a dream job pulled away from you after a candid disability adjustment disclosure, minutes after being told the offer was coming; then having to fight for it, on record, the very next day? Further, what is it like doing this under the navigation of a highly cited leader of Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity: Tim Cook , at Apple?
This article shares my full experience, through my lens – including a full captured audio recording of my call with Apple, and looks if Apple have learnt any lessons two years on as Tim Cook prepares to walk a sunlit path into retirement from his CEO position.
The full recording, the clips and the timecoded transcript are all downloadable, and all mirrored on IPFS .
Apple have been offered a right of reply to this article. They did not respond — see what was asked, and the silence.
Tim Cook’s Last Month — Defining a Legacy
Tim Cook is spending August saying his goodbyes and on 1 September 2026 he hands Apple to John Ternus . Tim told CBS News this week what he hopes for: that people will say he was a good and decent man. He believes he is leaving on the moral high ground, yet in the same answer he says that, in his view,
“your legacy is described by others, not yourself.”
I agree.
Play: Tim Cook on his legacy, CBS News, 13 August 2026
Press play and it opens on the legacy answer. Tim Cook to CBS News , 13 August 2026 .
Source
CBS News titled the clip “Tim Cook on his legacy: ‘I hope that people say I was a good and decent man’”. The line at the top of this article is not my selection from a long interview; it is the sentence CBS put in the title. Cook was interviewed by Jo Ling Kent at a Texas manufacturing facility, broadcast 13 August 2026 , in his final weeks as chief executive. Kent asks the legacy question at 1:03; Cook’s answer, quoted above in full and unedited, runs from 1:20.
Watch the whole interview on CBS News’ own upload
What follows happened at his company, on his watch, and, as I will show before the end, with his knowledge; I put it in front of him myself. Tim, his C-Levels, and Apple’s lawyers, internal and external, have known every detail for over two...