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    http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/news/confessions-of-an-apple-store-employee

    nothing too shocking. although, i can totally sympathize with selling mobile me. no one wants that shit in the age of dropbox and bookmark backups, and $50 500GB external drives.

    When the iPad first launched, we got tons of resellers from China coming in and trying to pay in cash. Back then, you had to reserve an iPad before you could pick it up, so they would go to the computers in the back of the store and create e-mail address after e-mail address just to reserve an iPad on the spot. We'd get a lot of weird e-mail addresses, like 9494893@ymail.com. And they tried to haggle us on the price for iPads! This is Apple—no way would that work.
    Feb 17, 2011 9:45pm PST
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      Still sounds completely soft compared to the electronic retail I have worked. That sounds like heaven to : VictoriouSecret
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        I remember being dressed down by our district guy at Officemax when he saw my interaction with a customer... : Crabs Jarrard
        • I don't think I could handle that and retain my sanity. : MacemanInTW
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      The Apple Credo section sounds like something that would happen at the entry levels of scientology : anhero
      • Nah, it's no different to the new-joiner crap you get from any other big company. : peanut-This person is cool!
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      I was hired as a "Genius" for a store that had recently opened, but the first day in orientation, all the... : Feisty Cadaver
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        was it that? or was it the onset of depression at being in your 30's working as an Apple store genius th... : mwasher
        • Aww, did he hurt your feelings? : bundyThis person is cool!
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          Haha, yes. Your insight is as keen as a knife made out of Jell-O. Slicing deftly to the heart of the ma... : Feisty Cadaver
          • 34 is OLD! : Vincenoir
        • lol jeez : bolneze
        • How dare people work retail can't they just get a degree and stop being horrible? : d flukeThis person is cool!
        • hahah nice mwasher : askedrelicThis person is cool!
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        Then you stepped out of the store, leaving the people inside with nothing but a memory of a peculiar 34 y... : VantageThis person is cool!
        • Oh Vantage, you haven't changed one bit. : HalenThis person is cool!
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          we need shack profiles to continue making sick burns like these!!! : mXENOThis person is cool!
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      • did you really fart in another persons face? That's hot : soggybagelThis person is cool!
      • sounds like the typical apple hipster bullshit : NukemForever
      • hahaha, the Apple store is a haven for doucebags. It would suck to work there. : MagicWishMonkey
    • Haha I totally see fellow cheap ass Chinese haggling : bolneze
    • It's mostly accurate - there was never so much pressure to sell when I worked there, but from friends sti... : peanut-This person is cool!