I freaking love my company

[wyrmtung]

So the Sr Director of my division at Apple is giving our quarterly review of how we rock and how much harder we rock vs. previous quarters. You know, the usual pep rally kind of thing corporations do. My department already did one a few weeks ago so I was thinking about skipping this meeting to get some work done.

Anyway the cute chick in my office asks me if I'm going so I decide to go kill an hour and attend. So after showing a bunch of slides and charts, our Director tells us we are going to have a fun little quiz of 10 questions. There will be a prize at the end but all she will say about it is that we definitely want to do our best on the quiz. Everyone gets paper and pens handed out to them. The questions are really random info like "what was the percentage growth for iPods in Q1?"; "who directed the 1984 Apple commercial?"; and "what movie has the line 'what we have here is a failure to communicate'?"

A couple of them I know the answer but most of them are just complete guesses. We pass our answer sheets to our neighbor and score the quiz. Amazingly I get six right and only one other person has as much as six right. Now we have a tie and we flip a coin to find out the winner of the "secret" prize. I end up losing the coin toss but my director says, "Screw it, let's give them both the prize!"

And the prize was: a freaking Macbook Air. And it's not the $1800 model but the $3000 one with solid state drive and faster processor.


I'm hugging it right now as I type this. I already found out that this computer is water resistant because I made sweet, sweet love to it twice already.


So for those keeping score, since I started working for Apple (1.5 years), I have gotten a free shuffle when I first started, a free iPhone, and an MBA. Plus the occasional t-shirts, gift cards, software, laptop bags, headphones, cases, cash bonus, etc. I've worked for other major companies, like HP and NEC, but none of it comes close to my experience here at Apple. To be fair, I worked for those other companies when they were in a recession. Anyways, I'm one happy walrus.

[Kwijiboe]

Cool Hand Luke!

[The_OG_Nelta]

poidh

[Kwijiboe]

YES, OH G O D YES!


No More Fallso Icon!

[CMMeast]

wait...you got an MBA?

[Howard Roark]

wait...you got an MBA?

ya i read that twice

[guartz]

eh, it's a mac.

[Bebopaloo]

eh, it's a mac.

That's what I thought at first, but a free anything is free so MEH TO U

[guartz]

eh, it's a mac.

That's what I thought at first, but a free anything is free so MEH TO U

Don't get me wrong, I mean, grats if your into like... art and video making and stuff.

[Beckwin]

eh, it's a mac.

That's what I thought at first, but a free anything is free so MEH TO U

Don't get me wrong, I mean, grats if your into like... compatibility issues with the other 95% of the computing world.

[Royal]

What do you do for Apple?

[AkashiXI]

What do you do for Apple?

10 question quizzes!

[Norelco]

So the Sr Director of my division at Apple is giving our quarterly review of how we rock and how much harder we rock vs. previous quarters. You know, the usual pep rally kind of thing corporations do.

My company does these too, but instead of giving us cool things, they cut and slash our benefits, even after a record setting $130M year.

[Takiwaki]

soo. . . what happend to the cute chick?

[netz]

eh, it's a mac.

That's what I thought at first, but a free anything is free so MEH TO U

Don't get me wrong, I mean, grats if your into like... compatibility issues with the other 95% of the computing world.

/facepalm

[Metah]

soo. . . what happend to the cute chick?

WHO CARES HE GOT A MACBOOK AIR

[Norelco]

soo. . . what happend to the cute chick?

WHO CARES HE GOT A MACBOOK AIR

I'd rather have an MBA.

[mootsfox]

I'm not a fan of macs, but

FREE IS FREE!

Congrats on your MBA.

Double congrats that you didn't pay for it.

[finale23]

soo. . . what happend to the cute chick?

WHO CARES HE GOT A MACBOOK AIR

I'd rather have an MBA.

wish granted.

on a serious note, it's easier than you think, and most fortune1000 companies have tuition reimbursement plans for continuous education. that's how i gotz mine too.

[Killgannon]

god i hate my company you're a lucky sob

BEST SHIT WE GET?!?!

$25 gift card and a polo shirt

FUCK YEA BITCHES

afk ripping down phone lines

soo. . . what happend to the cute chick?

WHO CARES HE GOT A MACBOOK AIR

I'd rather have an MBA.

wish granted.

on a serious note, it's easier than you think, and most fortune1000 companies have tuition reimbursement plans for continuous education. that's how i gotz mine too.

mine does, as long as its applicable to you moving up in the company, it didnt used to be like that however, my manager got a degree in medicine through the company, and we have nothing to do with medicine at all >.>;