story’s of the day(s)
Go into an Apple store and pretend to want to buy a computer. Ask the salesperson about various functions. Watch how the salesperson lets you do all the physical interaction with the computer - and how if they need to use the mouse/trackpad/keyboard to enter something themself, they’ll ask your ‘permission’ to do so. Apple wants you to establish an emotional ‘ownership’ of the computer. Clever.
You know all the tricks of the trade chucky, im gunna do that last one just for shits and gigs 
Tambo and I put the genius bar into a flat spin one day.
We bought a new iMac and the function to load your existing data from an old iMac to the new one would not work.
So they said we could swap it no problems, but as we live 4 hours away from the apple store, it is a problem 
So we get up early drive down there to get the new one. I took a Macbook Pro with me, because I was testing this new machine before I drove back four hours.
The staff didn’t know what to do when I told them what was going to happen they had trouble coming to terms with it
I made them get me an extension lead and clear stuff out of the way.
While we were doing the test (it takes about 30 mins) we kept asking the staff questions about extra storage etc etc Once you ask something outside the normal, the geniuses fail
The iMac worked fine and one of the Apple guys even carted it out through the massive shopping centre to the car for us 
I think he was just making sure we pissed off and stopped asking heaps of hard questions 
For Azz and his Apple Store Win:
we dont have an Apple store in canberra yet but they make it seem like its a really fun place to work, im not sure if it is but i hope it is haha coz i made it to the next stage in the interview process but for the ‘Creative’ position which seems like fun! All i do is teach people how to use Final Cut haha, seems easy enough
Isnt there one in the canberra center?
thats the one ill be working at, its not open yet but should be very shortly
Isnt there one in the canberra center?
Yea, in Civic, ANU, and Fyshwick (unless ANU and Fyshwick have closed?)
They arent apple stores but Mac1 stores
yeah im not sure how those Mac1 stores will go after this store opens??
I went to the Apple store a little while back to check out the new gen3 iPad.
The screen was pretty impressive, so I went to look at some of the pictures and albums in the photos part. Somebody had saved HUNDREDS of hard-core pron photos into the albums.
LOL I didn’t know what to do. I wanted to delete them in case some little kid came next, but I didn’t want anybody to see me looking at them and think I was the creep. I put it down quickly and grabbed a different one with no porn on it.
I went to the Apple store a little while back to check out the new gen3 iPad.
The screen was pretty impressive, so I went to look at some of the pictures and albums in the photos part. Somebody had saved HUNDREDS of hard-core pron photos into the albums.
LOL I didn’t know what to do. I wanted to delete them in case some little kid came next, but I didn’t want anybody to see me looking at them and think I was the creep. I put it down quickly and grabbed a different one with no porn on it.
haha thats kinda funny!! would make working there more fun if this happens on the reg!
It would be good if some one put them there and had a camera set up to see everyones reactions