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8/21/12 at 6:39pm

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http://gizmodo.com/5936324/exclusive-confessions-from-the-most-corrupt-apple-store-in-america

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"The saying goes: Don't [expletive] with the person that serves your food," a former Apple Genius tells me over IM. "Don't [expletive] with the person who repairs your computer." He—we'll call him Ronald—spent six years as a member of Apple's Genius squad in a busy Southwestern store. It was a model store: shiny as the best of them, teeming, making money. But in back rooms and in plain sight, the employees ran wild: giving away computers, stealing phones, drunkenly destroying customer property. Ronald saw (and did) it all.

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8/21/12 at 7:01pm

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Every company has their share of bad apples... Apple has more of them.

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I lol'd

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Man this was some good entertainment I lol'd hard xD

wasn't expecting less tho.

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8/21/12 at 7:10pm

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It would be naive to think that stuff like this doesn't happen at other companies as well, being apple just makes it newsworthy I guess.

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Wow, that was an interesting read. . . I always feel bad for those CSR who get all the heat

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Very interesting read! I lol'd at times

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This isn't anything. Me and my friend Charlie could tell you all sorts of stories about Best Buy.

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This is news...?

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Originally Posted by MarvinDessica

This isn't anything. Me and my friend Charlie could tell you all sorts of stories about Best Buy.

Please do! I hear this alot but never asked, details!

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