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Microsoft Reportedly Poaching Apple Retail Staff
Eugen notes an article up at Ars reporting that Microsoft, besides copying Apple's retail formula, is now going after Apple's retail employees. "Microsoft is reportedly trying to hire away Apple's retail employees by bribing them with... wait for it, better wages. 'People that have spoken to The Loop on condition of anonymity confirm that Microsoft has contacted a number of Apple's retail store managers to work in their stores. In addition to "significant raises," the managers have also been offered moving expenses in some cases.' It doesn't end there: once the ex-Apple managers have jumped ship, they are asked to contact their top sales employees at their old workplaces and offer them similar positions at Microsoft's retail stores, also with higher pay. ... If you work in an Apple store near a soon-to-be-opened Microsoft store, apparently the software giant is giving you a free pass; no looking through job postings necessary!"
They'll be given forged paperwork and identification so they can still tell friends, family and potential employers that they work for Apple.
I remember Gateway stores were poaching from local retailers like Circuit City... the grass died on both sides of that fence.
I wish anything Microsoft does would still surprise me...
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In other news, I am poaching eggs. I plan to take a small bite out of each one and leave them around randomly inside Microsoft stores.
It's not the Apple store employees... it's what they sell..
I go into a Microsoft store, and what I can expect is... a store of people vastly familiar with the Mac but with little Windows experience.
Genius.
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This is really a stretch as far as Microsoft hatred goes on Slashdot.
Nothing is too big a stretch when it comes to MS hate on SLashdot. It is the rubber band that never breaks.
Yeah, cause it's the milktoast hipster dofus that makes those commercials funny.
This is like buying Craig from South Park
Let's hope they poach the staff from the Birmingham Apple Store: the craptard service they provide there is much more in line with Microsoft's standards than Apple's. The service is so awful there I sometimes I wonder if it's actually a fake store set up by Microsoft to discredit Apple.
Bad analogies are like waxing a monkey with a rainbow.
Yummy, poached Apples!
Wait a minute, oh Apple employees. Well, I hope they're not boiling the employees in water or cider with cinnamon and sugar.
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This is a lot like luring Lexus or Mercedes sales people to sell Ramblers. It won't take long before many realize they're selling junk yard class equipment and start sending customers back to the Apple stores.
Most of the stuff on
Money can't buy happiness, but it can get a reasonable facscimilie.
News at 11. Go crazy you two. It's kinda cute.
Yes there totally is, he's in the details.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Yes there totally is, he's in the details.
Or in this case, the retail.
Goodbye Slashdot. You've changed.