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IFO AppleStore has info on the new clothing design for Apple Retail employees, who will swap out their current job titles for slightly different ones that represent Apple's iPod and iPhone business more. The "Mac Genius" will become just "Genius," for example, and there will be six different slogans for each guy. We know it's old hat to mock Apple users and Apple Retail for being slightly smarmy and, well, kind of douchey, but these shirt slogans after the jump kind of reinforce the reason why.
* Specialist: "I can talk about this stuff for hours"
* Concierge: "I know people"
* Creative: "All gain, no pain"
* Genius: "Not all heroes wear capes"
* Manager: "My house is yours"
* Back-of-house: "Some artists use a canvas, I use boxes"
[ifoapplestore via TUAW]
Update: A tipster tells us that the above slogans aren't entirely correct. The managers wear "Our place is your place" and the back-of-house is, supposedly, "Some artists use brushes, I use boxes." The idea is the same, but the wording is slightly different. [Thanks tipster!]
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Lame! but i guess getting $14 an hour and be called Genius is pretty cool. :P
[quote="Jason Chen"] The "Mac Genius" will be come just [/quote]
*become
A Mac Genius would make their own PC and hack it to run Leopard.
@daftrok: Indeed they would!
Even better - They'd take their Hackintosh shows on the road to attempt to make money before Apple sues them.
@tanya.peacock: Hey! Check and see if the Psystar guy used to work for Apple! Certainly not genius level though.
The t-shirt slogans are stupid.
I understand not wanting to call them mac geniuses, but why not change it to apple genius? It would be more palatable.
Concierge = Greeter.
is to what
Painter = Tracer
@tanya.peacock:
That would be more along the lines of idiocy. A real Mac Genius would find a loophole to make it legal to distribute hacked Leopard discs for Intel based PC's just like Microsoft did with the GUI (Hint: that worked cuz Apple did the same thing to Xerox).
Concierge is to Greeter as Painter is to Tracer.
Mah Bads, didn't see it post!
To me apple employees (not all of them) are overrated. Some are rude and impatient. Some are just clueless.
If you need a real help on Apple stuff, the best way is to surf the net, join the mac forum or something like that.
does the shirt say "douche" now? or perhaps, "I never graduated high school"? Sorry to anyone who works at the apple store and are good at what they do and nice to customers, but let's face it, a majority of your coworkers are assholes!
They really just needed to update all their titles to "Pretentious" if they want to go for better accuracy.
I'd love to hate on them, but they were actually insanely helpful when I bought my new iMac today.
are they dropping the name mac like they dropped the name computer i.e. Apple Computer?
sounds like more than a few people commenting here didnt get called back for a job at Apple. its ok. you arent cool enough anyway. and i would like to know why apple employees keep leaking this info out. as if you people couldnt wait til when the new shirts debuted to find this out...
Ok, how about now? Now? Ok, now?
@xxGenericSNxx: Oops, thanks. Must have had something else on the brain.
cleaning staff: All this glass and chrome is a bitch.
cashier: I'll push my own buttons thank you.
struggling writer: No I don't work here. No I won't move.
fanboy: I know just as much. I swear. Seriously. Ask me. C'mon!
Great, as if I didn't have enough to deal with, now if I ever go into an Apple store there will be all sorts of confusion between their "geniuses" and myself, thanks in large part to this stupid tag I have to wear at all times (or else the MacArthur Foundation takes my grant back, those bastards).
@elduro13: Sounds like troll bait here. And I'm not fishing. /grammar sucks eh?
@ zeroprime theres a difference between pretentious and more knowledgeable than you, relax.
"Hey, I'm a mac!" "And I'm a pc!" "I'm an asshole, why did you come in here? can you even afford an Apple Pc or even a ipod shuffle?? leave before I call the cops!"
wow I hope those trolling realize that it makes you seem as much of a douche as the apple kid you're trying to make fun of.
lots of bitter people.
@92BuickLeSabre: There aren't any cashiers. Each person on the floor has their mini handheld computer/register with credit card slot.
It's pretty freakin slick and I wish I had those at my work.
@Brown_Noise: Tell that to the Apple people.
Working in a store doesn't make you Steve Jobs. They act like they had some doing in creating the ipod or something.
I would work at the Apple store if they gave me a shirt that read "Penis."
*gurgle*
I think I just vomited in my mouth a little.
@foureight84: None taken. In fact, a lot of them are pompous douches.
And the customers, blaming us (and offering punches, no less) for not having a backup after their laptop was destroyed by leaving it over the car? Don't even get me started.
@Joe Manning: Thank you for admitting that.
That is just terribly insensitive to homeless people.
i put the mac genius somewhere between a cadaver and the hobo that poops in the lobby.
@Joe Manning: holy crap is it 13.0.0.0.0 already?
@daftrok: "just like Microsoft did with the GUI" -
It worked cuz MS threatened to stop making software that ran on Apple machines if Apple didn't drop the lawsuit. And Windows is born.
Cut, Print, Gay
What's really douchtastic is hanging out on the web sniping people in retail. Seriously, some of the folks are just trying to make a buck. Some of them care about the product they're selling. Some of them enjoy retail.
I'm not one and you're not one - but why the hell do we have to ride a high horse about it? I realize that it's "the internets" but taking a crap on people because of where they work or because of a corporate slogan on their shirt is... lame.
@92BuickLeSabre: you're my favorite!
/swoon
I'm gunna make a shirt that sez "Cuz I have a brain and can read and understand a manual" with a Windows logo on it and go into their stores. :p
Maybe not...I'm too lazy...too much to read.
Specialist: "I can talk about this stuff for two minutes, then I have to start making shit up because that's all I know."
* Concierge: "I know people... that I'd rather be talking to than you."
* Creative: "All gain, no pain, unless that #$%!ing concierge starts giving purple nurples again."
* Genius: "Not all heroes wear capes. I wear one at home all the time and run around yelling 'WOOOSH!!!' Haha. I rock when I do that. But seriously, they won't let me wear my cape here for some reason. Bastards."
* Manager: "My house is yours. Hey, you still have to pay for that! And that! Piss off. IGNORE THE T-SHIRT!!!"
* Back-of-house: "Some artists use a canvas, I use boxes. This is the only job I can get after 3 years of art college!? They said I was too much of a prick to work out front where I'd actually have to interact with people. Plebian scum! I should kill them all."
@KenjiFinster: yea you are right. dumb ass customers got a lot to do with their attitude problems.
Back-of-house: "Some artists use a canvas, I use boxes"
Seems like they were stretching a bit when they came up with that one.
Kind of like - Hey - we can't leave the stock people out of this one.
@tidybowl: yea that's kind of degrading.
@Brown_Noise: Are you trolling for trolls? If so did I just accidentally troll cubed or something?
The Concierge welcomes you:
[boortz.com]
You forgot Barista.
Does the Back-of-House shirt also come with a kick in the balls? Way to knock a guy down a peg - boxes as a canvas. I mean, AT LEAST Corigated Fiber Board Technician. Seriously, Crapple, come on.
Am I missing something?
Who gives a shit what the clerks at the store are wearing this year?
I recently identified a new model at the NYC 14th Street Store:
"I'm new here so they won't let me check out your purchase but I'll still flirt with you."
Specialist = I'm a douche who will talk way too enthusiastically about products that cost too much and I'll try to upsell you all sorts of useless gadgets and add-ons for them too.
@strider_mt2k: Seconded.
Our nearest Apple store is 378 miles, two mountain passes and bad winter weather that'a way .... chances of any of us ever seeing an Apple employee in person in spiffy new togs is pretty dang remote.
But its nice they change clothes once in a while.