Microsoft: You’re not cool; you’re the opposite of cool; stop making your employees dance (w/ vid)

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Here’s a video of some Microsoft retail employees in their fake Apple Store in Mission Viejo, California, faking “spontaneity” via, of all things, some rendition of “The Electric Slide” gone horribly wrong and performed, of course, to the wrong song:


Direct link to video via YouTube here.

MacDailyNews Take: Don’t forget your minimum fifteen pieces of flair, you Apple Store rejects.

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  10. They’re auditioning for Biggest Loser episode. Notice how few people are in the store? I would bet most are waiting on repairs and walking around in the meantime, how pathetic. I give this experiment 1-2 yrs iCal it!

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  15. Sig Heil!
    There`s something inherently wrong with people dancing around all those MS swastikas. Well maybe if they`re good, they`ll be called to the chancellery to meet the Fuhrer himself.

    Oh I like the guy high tailing it outa there at 1:31

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  17. I wonder if those poor employees were paid overtime to stay after hours, after the mall had closed, to rehearse this entire routine – so that someone who “just happened to have a video camera” could spontaneously film it and then release it on YouTube in the hopes that the whole world would know how fun it is to be a Microsoft Windows retail employee! Weee!

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  20. They do the same dance when I eat at LoneStar Steakhouse. Embarrassing there and really embarrassing here. It reminds me of the band playing on the deck of the Titanic as it is moments away sinking into the deep freezing waters of the Atlantic. As long as it takes … the Unsinkable Microsoft.

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  23. Would never have believed it if I didn’t see it with my own eyes.

    Sheesh, I guess some people will do anything to keep their job. LOL. And those people actually have to live in the OC.

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  24. I knew the store layout was copied, the furnishing were copied, and the concept was copied. I didn’t know the employee uniforms, the font on the shirts, and the nametags hanging around their necks were copied. So pathetically sad.

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