The Apple Store Job Fair (Essay)

By C.D. Reimer

If you're ever invited to attend the Apple Store Job Fair at the Cupertino headquarters, don't drink the water. The employees pushing the cold bottles of water are store managers. If you find yourself with an urgent need to urinate during the two-hour presentation and activity session, don't use the restroom. You will piss away your job interview if you do.

An original 8,300-word essay being published for the first time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: C.D. Reimer
• Release date: Mar 31, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301421909

C.D. Reimer

C.D. Reimer makes videos about comic cons, pop culture, Silicon Valley and technology every week. https://www.youtube.com/c/cdreimer

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THE APPLE STORE JOB FAIR

An Essay

By C.D. Reimer

Copyright 2013 C.D. Reimer

Smashwords Edition / March 2013

This personal essay incorporates a shorter version of The Black MacBook is Dead, Long Live the Black MacBook! that was first published on the personal blog, Once Upon An Albatross… [http://ouaa.cdreimer.com], on 03/12/2012.

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About The Author:

C.D. Reimer lives and works in Silicon Valley. His interests are ceramics, painting, tropical fish, and web programming. These keep him out of trouble when he’s not fixing broken users and consoling hurt computers.

After serving two tours through The Twilight Zone as a child and a young adult Christian, he writes about everyday reality that he often finds weird, twisted and absurd for being so normal.

He’s currently working on various short stories and his first novel, and blogs about writing and everything else when he's not busy playing video games writing fiction.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

About The Author

The Apple Store Job Fair

Further Reading

THE APPLE STORE JOB FAIR

Don’t Drink The Water, Don’t Use The Restroom

AFTER BEING OUT OF WORK for a year-and-a-half since losing my help desk support job on Friday the 13th in February 2009, an Apple recruiter offered me a one-on-one job interview at the Apple Store job fair being held at the main campus in Cupertino, CA, later that week. Having worked at a number of high-profile Fortune 500 companies—Fujitsu, Sony, Intuit, Google and eBay—over the years, I desperately wanted to add Apple to my resume as it has surpassed Google as being THE PLACE to work at in Silicon Valley.

Except for one small problem: I had no retail experience.

The recruiter reassured me over the phone that a lack of