Apple's SoHo Store Attracts "Worst Neighbor Ever" Complaints From Residents

Jason Chen — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:05:43 EDT

Curbed's got a complaint report from the residents and visitors near the SoHo Apple store in NY, all of whom are really angry at what the store's been doing lately in terms of bugging its neighbors. The latest offense—the anvil thrown off a ten story office building onto an already arthritic camel—was the Jonas Brothers event held August 12. According to the complaint, "thousands of young teenage girls...screamed incessantly on the street for hours for their idols, blocking traffic, injuring one resident in the rush, and inconveniencing scores of other people and businesses." Speaking as a guy who has little kids screaming their faces off outside his window when he's trying to work, I can sympathize. [Curbed - Thanks BrooklynBum!]

Apple Store Retail Employees Getting New Shirts, Slogans, Impatient Attitude

Jason Chen — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:40:00 EDT

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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Apple's SoHo Store Attracts "Worst Neighbor Ever" Complaints From Residents

Apple Store Retail Employees Getting New Shirts, Slogans, Impatient Attitude