New Apple Store in Norwich.

Feek · 28 Sep 2009 at 14:36

How I chuckled!

^187 · 28 Sep 2009 at 14:37

Great stuff.

Schizo · 28 Sep 2009 at 14:45

Slogan · 28 Sep 2009 at 18:07

Apple really should keep their cheesy American staff stuff to America. Makes me cringe looking at it.

Beansprout · 28 Sep 2009 at 18:14

Genius! But eeew at the over-excited staff.

fail at the internets · 28 Sep 2009 at 18:17

:| How utterly embarrassing.

SDK^ · 28 Sep 2009 at 18:27

Awesome - high-fives all round !!
I imagine those dudes at the front were super stoked to get their free ipods

fez · 28 Sep 2009 at 18:46

That was brilliant!

PardonTheWait · 28 Sep 2009 at 18:49

I know one of the guys in that video, he loves all that crap :/

Someone else I know was there but seems to have avoided all the gimpy stuff.

Jokester · 28 Sep 2009 at 18:49

That's made me want to throw my iPhone in the bin in disgust.

PardonTheWait · 28 Sep 2009 at 18:56

They're not like that all the time. On store openings and launch days half of them have been up all night, they've been working towards it for weeks, and the blow off steam with all of that. That is by far the most ridiculous store opening I've ever seen though, usually there's clapping and wooing and high fiving but that took the biscuit.

A lot of Apple's staff, especially on store openings, are SO excited to be working for Apple they could **** themselves, and it manifests itself in such embarassing antics :/

Spyhop · 28 Sep 2009 at 18:58

Do they get good money?

PardonTheWait · 28 Sep 2009 at 19:01

Pretty good for retail, yes.

ringo747 · 28 Sep 2009 at 19:03

Belfast store opening was something similar but without the dancing. I walked in and was greeted by this bunch of knobs trying to high five me - so embarrassing and I wished I hadn't bothered. Its only a shop!

Tunney · 28 Sep 2009 at 19:08

PardonTheWait said:
Pretty good for retail, yes.

Most are on zero hour contracts though.

Deleted member 77746 · 28 Sep 2009 at 19:35

Excellent!!!! Made me laugh right the way through!

Hxc · 28 Sep 2009 at 19:43

Was working the day it opened in another shop nearby, absolutely bloody mental to see queues of people and customers cheering as people were to be let in. Surreal.

PardonTheWait · 28 Sep 2009 at 20:03

Tunney said:
Most are on zero hour contracts though.

Yep. Mostly part timers scrabbling for full-time, the vast majority never get it. Stringing people along is how they play it.

I started full time and even ended up on a salary :eek:

geekyEd · 28 Sep 2009 at 20:14

That looks good fun, to watch!

Although a job at Apple wouldn't be a bad idea, I don't think I'd like to go retail again after working for (insert high street competitor here).

PardonTheWait · 28 Sep 2009 at 20:21

In all honesty I wouldn't bother. It's better than most retail in a lot of ways and horrendous in a lot of others. Management in general at Apple are a joke, the rest of the staff just do their best to work *despite* them, and most of the good staff leave out of frustration, get pushed out, or fired for stupid reasons.