We love advancements in technology that make life easier. They also make technology more complicated, but that's what the tech people at stores are for. I don't know what the 'cloud' is but everything I have is in the 'cloud.' What I learned today is that the coud is shareable and If you have a secret, you better not put it on the cloud, or it'll get out there.
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Several years ago, I found myself in a hell known as Best Buy on Black Friday; this was the first year they made us work on Thanksgiving day. The mobile area is where I was sentenced where hordes of greedy shoppers, people as far as the eye can see. I'd done several setups, and my next couple (mid-20s) came forward. As I can't leave, I hear stories about their lives as we go through all the paperwork and get their new phones.
The guy had already been making rude comments about the wait and the cost of accessories and getting on my nerves. We used to have a machine that we hooked to phones, and it transferred all the data to the new phones; well, it didn't get the memo and broke a few hours into our shift.
I take the woman's new iPhone and set her up by transferring her data from the old phone to the new phone. It's been about an hour, and I'm ready to set up the guy's phone, and he hands it to me. I go down the list of stuff, making sure to get his iPhone library, contacts, IMessages, etc. I started to notice the guy had a lot of pics with him and another woman who did not look like his fiance.
I snicker as it's none of my business and continue loading everything to iCloud. Now the fiance has gotten bored and wants to go, and she's complaining about how loud it is. The guy starts yelling at me to hurry up and pisses me off. Throughout all this, I remain calm and finally get all his stuff over with. I told him I didn't link his fiance to the iCloud account and that he could do that himself. He gets upset and tells me I'm not doing my job.
Cue malicious compliance: He tells me to sync the shared albums on iCloud because they have to go. I ask him to trust me, 'you should do it yourself.' He grabbed the phone and did it himself. He hits share, and all hell breaks out when his fiance sees all the pictures of him with this other woman. She screams for a solid minute, and he says, I put the photos of this woman on his phone.
He has no answer for the woman he's in the pictures with. She storms out after throwing her ring somewhere in the electronics. He looked at me, and I said I told you not to do it. He shoves me off my bench to the floor, and the manager kicks him out. Keep in mind we have 100s of people in the store, probably 40 in the mobile area watching this, and it was dead quiet. I wish I could say that's the first ruined relationship I've seen from iCloud-shared albums.
LordBigglesworthEsq says:
New title: 'BEST-BYE.'
craz4cats says:
If my wife and I were to sync albums from our phones. She gets 1200 pictures of random machines from my job. I get: 1200 random pictures of our cats.
reddimus_prime says:
I'm so glad that retailers are moving away from making employees work on Thanksgiving day. No one except for essential workers like ER physicians, firefighters, and pharmacists should be asked to do so. If they choose to work on a holiday like Thanksgiving, they deserve to get that extra bonus pay.
Note to all you rude customers out there! If your tech person says you may want to do it yourself it's not because they're lazy.