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. On watching it again (I know, how sad is that?)
    I’m not entirely sure that the girl in white w/ the bag actually shoplifted – or that she is even a customer.
    At 1:56 you see her literally running into the store with the alleged customers in black and blue who also start dancing. At exactly the same time?

    I think all 3 of them are shills. They can’t even get costumers to dance with ’em – they have to get employees to pretend.

    This just gets sadder, and sadder…

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  6. Maybe if these Microsoft employees spent their time educating people in the mall about the fact that most of the mice, keyboards and monitors that they sell will work perfectly well on their Macintosh they’d be too busy making sales. But then if they were too busy actually selling stuff then they couldn’t invent stupid dances and look oh…so…lame and bored on YouTube.

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  12. Yup, this is a pure example of Microsoft. Screw the customer for five minutes while we TRY to dance in a store. Ignore the customer for show. Love the concept. Keep it up Microsoft with Ballhead.

    I just have to go with the customer service without the fake entertainment and where the products focus on the user and not the whims of a software company that loves flash and awe- awe damn it crashed a gain Microsoft!

    Apple yet again gains market share at the hands of Microsoft. It is getting way to easy!

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  13. It’s hipnotic.. I want to look away… but like a train wreck, I just can’t…

    Not only would Apple never do this.. there’s no room in an Apple Store for two dozen folks each to use 50 square feet of floor to dance…

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  15. They do that at Johnny Rocket, a 50’s-themed hamburger franchise. That’s the only other place I’ve seen this sort of thing, though other posters say they’ve seen it elsewhere.

    One does tend to feel bad for employees forced to do this. At least at Johnny Rocket, it sort of ties in to 50’s music and the whole period feel. But here it’s just aimless and awful. And you can’t escape the feeling all this razzle dazzle is meant to cover up the simple fact that the products aren’t of the same caliber as you-know-who’s.

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  20. @Xan and Macdust

    Why would she steal (I presume a copy of Win7) when Microsoft`s marketing partners at the Piratebay freely give away special edition copies with all the latest and hippest malware?

    BTW it does look like she lifted something
    +1

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  21. They were doing the celebration dance for the 100 Million th PC infected by at least 65,560.98 viruses, netting the cyber criminals a whopping record 358 Billion dollars in stolen passwords, credit card u name it…. just last month…

    …not to mention the 948 Billion dollars Windows OS is costing the entire globe every month in lost productivity, doing defraggs, reinstalls, virus scans, reformats, and just about any other stupid thing!

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  25. Couple’a things:
    1. I think the video wall is cool – and how exactly is that a rip-off from an Apple store?
    2. All I kept thinking was, “… when is it going to end?” [Referring to the “dance”.]

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