This kind of ticks me off as I... an Apple Nerd with mad skills and new to SF and in need of a job... was passed up for a job at Apple retail, yet a girl who didn't even know you could make the Apple mouse right click got the job. So I guess you can "ask" anything... just don't expect an answer.
Yeah don't get me started. I graduated in May from college and was unable to find a job until REALLY recently. I'm sort of a computer expert and a good salesman, and I thought I had a shot at at least making a few bucks at the apple store until a real job came around. I applied to 4 or 5 apple stores without a single reply from any of them, even though they all said they were hiring.
Don't worry, you'll find something else. I just got a great job and I'll be making way more money than if I were working in an Apple retail store, practically every one of which is filled with hipster quasi-geeks who know less than me about every product Apple has to offer.
Every once in a while you have a great experience at the Apple store but a lot of times you leave annoyed that the 18 year old who was "helping" you couldn't answer a single damn question without checking online and telling me what I already knew.
I bought an apple cinema display a week ago. I knew I wanted it when I walked in the store, and that I was going to walk out with one. So needless to say I didn't have too many questions. I'd been researching getting one for a long time. I asked the retard who was helping me if there was a student discount (which there is) and keep in mind that I asked him purely for the sake of conversation. He said he would be right back and spent 10 minutes in the back of the store figuring it out.
How is it that I basically memorized all the pricing of their products and the kid who works there can't do the same? Ridiculous. I used to assume that if someone was working in the Apple store they were most likely going to be more knowledgeable than myself, but now that would be the exception.
Keep truckin.
