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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  5. I thought it was kinda cute. The sales staff are pretty young and they seemed to mostly enjoy doing this — some customer’s even joined in. An awful lot of salespeople though, for the number of customers. They may have been dancing for their jobs.

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  6. When laid off from his “real” job during the recession of 1955, faced with a wife and kids to feed, my father sold vacuum cleaners door-to-door. He related stories about going in to the office in the morning before they would head out on their sales routes and singing vacuum cleaner songs to boost their morale.

    I hope that it looked a little more dignified than this.

    Fortunately, Dad got his job back, climbed the ladder, and retired with a nice pension and a 401(k), so for him, at least, there was a happily-ever-after. I wish the MicroSofties the best with that.

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  8. HA ! you have to keep yourself occupied some way when you have NO customers…..

    Isn’t that the Black-Eyed Peas – the same song the little kid was lip-syncing on the web from an Apple store in NY ?????

    Its just Microsoft trying to be something their not…. AGAIN !

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  14. Clearly the girl in green is leading them. Choreographer or Aerobics Instructor. One has to wonder – does she really work there or was she hired to come in and lead the dance. She doesn’t have an employee ID card. She’s the only one in a green shirt.
    The other thing one has to wonder is – did they rehearse this? Please say that they didn’t but I bet that they did!

    I wonder if they will all come around you and sing happy birthday to you on your birthday?

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  20. How very sad for these employees. I guess when jobs are tight you have to take what you can get. Worse for the customers, who are so dim they think they should join in. Maybe that says it all.

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  23. PC Apologist had it right. I was thinking it the whole time.

    If I were a customer and had to watch them for 5 minutes spinning in circles before being helped I would have left or atleast been thinking…ok when is this over, i just wanna get outta here.. Being a former Apple Emplyoee (LOVED it by the way), customers got PISSED when they werent helped immediately…well, we were swamped most of the time. Unlike this store.
    I can remember coutless times customers would interupt me when I was already with a customer for help.

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  24. If this weren’t staged, and I was a customer in that store (not that I ever would be), I think it’d be really aggravating to have to put up with 5 minutes’ worth of that kind of distraction.

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