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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!"
I remember Gateway stores were poaching from local retailers like Circuit City... the grass died on both sides of that fence.
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.
Yes there totally is, he's in the details.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."