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The Coolest Experience I Had as an Apple Store Employee

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Re: The Coolest Experience I Had as an Apple Store Employee

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Post by joeguilmette »

I work as a skydiving instructors and had a similar experience. A group of deaf college age students came in to skydive and I was paired with one of them on a tandem skydive. Generally we have about five minutes to gear up and train our students when it is busy (as it was that day).

During a lull I wrote up a quick briefing of everything I would usually say and go over on my laptop. When it came time to jump I greeted the student, smiled and then had them read the text while I geared them up. Them I made a big show of pantomiming everything we'd be doing while we laughed and conversed on the laptop.

It was a lot of fun :)

Re: The Coolest Experience I Had as an Apple Store Employee

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Post by ebbv »

pud wrote: post #56

The kids knew sign language? The kids went and bought stuff (incl laptops) at multiple stores? And wasn't there a long line at Apple? How'd they make it to so many other stores? The kids physically go to the store to buy school computers? The kids are such good actors that they fooled the author & all other salespeople? A teacher would actually allow kids to pretend that they're disabled? No bulk discount or pre-arra…

I had the exact same reaction. This story has all the telltale signs of typical internet fiction trying to pass as a real story. Lack of details (no names of the school, teacher, etc., no date) combined with an implausible "this doesn't happen to anyone" story line is the biggest giveaway.

It's unfortunate that people are so eager to believe a happy story that they will suppress their bullshit detectors. The truth is important even when the lie is pleasant.

Glad to see this comment is at the top, disappointed to see the story voted so highly in the first place, though.

Re: The Coolest Experience I Had as an Apple Store Employee

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Post by acchow »

artursapek wrote: post #65
jballanc wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I worked the overnight shift at the 5th Avenue Apple Store. I got to spend two Christmas mornings (and two New Years Eves) in a row with some of the best people I've ever worked with...hell, some of the best people I've ever met!

Wow. NYC brings enough traffic in the middle of the night that it stays open, huh.

I think of it as a public service: you're working on your Operating Systems assignment at 1am and discover your AC adapter has malfunctioned and you have 5% of battery left.

24/7 Apple Store. They're doing god's work.

Re: The Coolest Experience I Had as an Apple Store Employee

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Post by acchow »

rdl wrote: post #73
lilsunnybee wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it really worth not letting employees be with their families on Christmas so a forgetful dad doesn't have to wait an extra day to buy mp3 players for his children? Is cheap electronic shit really more important than allowing people to spend time with loved ones?

I love working on Christmas, since I don't really celebrate -- if I'm working, then other people don't have to, and I get paid a premium. The Christmas-New Years week is basically the most productive period in the world, followed closely by Burning Man week. Thanksgiving, in the US, has more market penetration than Christmas. Yet, there's the huge Black Friday shopping thing, so stores pay people extra to set up on T…

Oh Black Friday.

"Only in America do you celebrate being thankful for everything you have on Thursday so you can go buy more shit on Friday" -Some wise netizen (a paraphrase).

Re: The Coolest Experience I Had as an Apple Store Employee

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Post by acchow »

nolok wrote: post #61
joejohnson wrote: post #12

That was a sweet story. Now let's turn to the comments and hear all of the cynical reasons I should be mad.

Not sure if you realize it, but comments like yours are also part of what's going wrong on hn. Ignore the low quality comments and upvote what adds to the discussion. Don't add more low quality comments.

You should check out reddit.com/r/circlejerk

Or better yet, reddit.com/r/circlejerkcirclejerk

Re: The Coolest Experience I Had as an Apple Store Employee

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Post by rdl »

newbie12 wrote: post #90
rtrunck wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Classic Hacker News any more - top comment is a cynic. Even if this isn't true, what would the point be for lying? And what really is the harm done?

Not a cynic, a skeptic. And that's pud, who's a pretty major hacker.

Also pretty major cynic, I mean he ran "fuckedcompany" which was essentially schadenfreude central.

Re: The Coolest Experience I Had as an Apple Store Employee

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Post by shimshimshabim »

newbie12 wrote: post #90
rtrunck wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Classic Hacker News any more - top comment is a cynic. Even if this isn't true, what would the point be for lying? And what really is the harm done?

Not a cynic, a skeptic. And that's pud, who's a pretty major hacker.

I, for one, pretty majorly don't give a shit.

Re: The Coolest Experience I Had as an Apple Store Employee

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Post by darkchasma »

69_years_and wrote: post #79
darkchasma wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A picture of a bunch of kids and a teacher would prove what exactly?

Sorry dark, that bit... was a joke. It was playing on a common internet saying that people say to their friends (and others) when they say something, you know, like, I meet the Prezz, surly you have run into it before. Jezz I hate having to explain my jokes. I'll need to get that looked at.

As was my comment, so we're even. ;)

Re: The Coolest Experience I Had as an Apple Store Employee

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Post by DannyBee »

pud wrote: post #56

The kids knew sign language? The kids went and bought stuff (incl laptops) at multiple stores? And wasn't there a long line at Apple? How'd they make it to so many other stores? The kids physically go to the store to buy school computers? The kids are such good actors that they fooled the author & all other salespeople? A teacher would actually allow kids to pretend that they're disabled? No bulk discount or pre-arra…

You think someone would really do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y...

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