Any Apple Genii? Massive favour required

Sherpa · 30 Nov 2013 at 21:43

Evening, are there any Apple Genii (geniuses?) in the house? I'm doing a scavenger hunt and need a photo of an Apple Genius eating an apple. We asked in store and a manager said you can't photo a Genius for trademark reasons. Which is a ridiculous notion.

Anyone available with a Genius tshirt and an apple that can help me out? Just send a trust message if possible. There's no prize involved just the adulation of my peers.

Cheers

Sherpa

SteveOBHave · 30 Nov 2013 at 21:56

Just find any hipster clown in a blue t-shirt and stick one of those Apple stickers in the middle of it. Job done.

Probably better off asking in the Apple section of the forum...

spoffle · 30 Nov 2013 at 21:58

SteveOBHave said:
Probably better off asking in the Apple section of the forum...

I can imagine a few of the regulars there have those t shirts.

PardonTheWait · 1 Dec 2013 at 09:39

If Apple found out that they did this and saw the photo they would be instantly fired.

Seriously though they would.

[FnG]magnolia · 1 Dec 2013 at 09:40

Is Apple Genius a thing?

Deleted member 77746 · 1 Dec 2013 at 09:41

T-Shirt + Apple Sticker = WIN

PardonTheWait · 1 Dec 2013 at 09:42

[FnG]magnolia;25408179 said:
Is Apple Genius a thing?

I think they got the idea from a book about how to turn your staff into dicks even if they're not dicks when they take the job.

Dunks · 1 Dec 2013 at 09:43

PardonTheWait said:
If Apple found out that they did this and saw the photo they would be instantly fired.

Seriously though they would.

Sounds like a great place to work.

=XDC=FluphyBunny · 1 Dec 2013 at 10:01

Big Bang Theory: Sheldon on volunteering at Penny's place of work

I asked myself what is the most mind-numbing, pedestrian job conceivable and three answers came to mind: a toll booth employees, an Apple store genius, and what penny does. Because I don't like touch other peoples' coins and I refuse to contribute to the devaluation of the word genius, here I am.

PardonTheWait · 1 Dec 2013 at 10:06

Dunks said:
Sounds like a great place to work.

You're just not allowed to talk about work online, and they're deadly deadly serious about enforcing it.

It's mostly a fairly normal place to work and pretty good for a retailer.

Bit weird though.

dfarrall · 1 Dec 2013 at 10:27

PardonTheWait said:
You're just not allowed to talk about work online, and they're deadly deadly serious about enforcing it.

It's mostly a fairly normal place to work and pretty good for a retailer.

Bit weird though.

Yep.

Have to sign an NDA when you go for interview.

banja · 1 Dec 2013 at 10:30

I worked an Apple store social event and one of these 'Genii' was tasked with DJing the evening. He had his macbook running the music but decided during the most floor-filled moment of mass drunken dancing that that would be the ideal time to update the drivers on his Macbook.

Cue a loss of music, replaced instead by two minutes of silence puntuated by the occasional system ding sound. Oh, and lots of booing. Genius I think not.

dfarrall · 1 Dec 2013 at 10:39

banja said:
I worked an Apple store social event and one of these 'Genii' was tasked with DJing the evening. He had his macbook running the music but decided during the most floor-filled moment of mass drunken dancing that that would be the ideal time to update the drivers on his Macbook.

Find this quite hard to believe, been a mac user for years and nothing auto updates without prompts.

banja · 1 Dec 2013 at 10:41

I don't know specifically what he was doing, but whatever it was he was fiddling and could have just let it be. And even with the prompt he was probably saying yes.

ElliorR · 1 Dec 2013 at 11:01

=XDC=FluphyBunny said:
Big Bang Theory: Sheldon on volunteering at Penny's place of work

I asked myself what is the most mind-numbing, pedestrian job conceivable and three answers came to mind: a toll booth employees, an Apple store genius, and what penny does. Because I don't like touch other peoples' coins and I refuse to contribute to the devaluation of the word genius, here I am.

Click to expand...

It's funny because it's true :-D

Mr-White · 1 Dec 2013 at 12:36

You sure it's not a trick question, genuine Apple geniuses don't exist ? lol

MW

ElliorR · 1 Dec 2013 at 12:57

Sherpa said:
.......We asked in store and a manager said you can't photo a Genius for trademark reasons. Which is a ridiculous notion.

Sherpa

I think he meant they'd be done under the trade description act.

Aod · 1 Dec 2013 at 15:16

ElliorR said:
I think he meant they'd be done under the trade description act.

Ahahahahahaha

airwave99 · 1 Dec 2013 at 15:52

Sherpa said:
We asked in store and a manager said you can't photo a Genius because Sheldon Cooper doesn't work here.

Corrected.