what it's like to work at an apple store

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Sounds like exactly the type of corporate culture that their core customers hate.
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Post by Malcolm »

Best parts:
Sometimes the company can feel like a cult.

The hell, you say.

We usually have to tell them that if they unlock their iPhone, it won't work. That it's going to be like a $700 paperweight, and that the antenna will fry itself on T-Mobile. Of course, that's not true, but that's what we tell them.

Yep. The company of Steve Jobs is unquestionably looking to <s>enslave</s> empower the user.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
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