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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  4. Oh, wait, I get it.
    Microsoft Promotions had an idea;

    (In the board room)
    Chad: “We’ll have our retail drones, er, … employees break out in a song and dance routine so utterly horrifying, that anyone standing in line for service, will be compelled to flee the store, never to return!
    Then we can report almost nil service and return rates for the products we sell!”

    Brook: “That’s a great idea, Chad. Funny that I told you that very idea this morning, over coffee, you BASTARD!” …

    *chair fight ensues amongst much shouting*

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  7. @Toastie, looked to me that the girl in white at 2:14 put something in her bag, and I’m fairly sure she was new into the store just a little earlier… Could well have shoplifted something… Difficult to tell for sure since you don’t get a clear look at her before you see her shove something into her bag.

    As for this being “spontaneous”? Pure BS. This is clearly planned.

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