{"id":3083,"date":"2011-02-18T10:43:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T15:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3083"},"modified":"2011-02-18T10:43:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T15:43:16","slug":"confessions-of-an-apple-store-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/18\/confessions-of-an-apple-store-employee\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of an Apple Store Employee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/print-this\/confessions-of-an-apple-store-employee?page=all\">Popular Mechanics<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jasperhauser\/status\/38540999814950912\">Jasper Hauser<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/print-this\/confessions-of-an-apple-store-employee?page=all\"><p>We aren&rsquo;t paid on commission, but you fear for your job if you&rsquo;re not selling enough. We&rsquo;re supposed to sell AppleCare product support with just about everything, and honestly, those aren&rsquo;t that hard to sell, since they aren&rsquo;t a bad deal. But we&rsquo;re also supposed to push MobileMe, and that&rsquo;s <em>really<\/em> hard to sell. Nobody ever sells it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Mechanics (via Jasper Hauser): We aren&rsquo;t paid on commission, but you fear for your job if you&rsquo;re not selling enough. We&rsquo;re supposed to sell AppleCare product support with just about everything, and honestly, those aren&rsquo;t that hard to sell, since they aren&rsquo;t a bad deal. But we&rsquo;re also supposed to push MobileMe, and that&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3084,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions\/3084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}