In Which I Don’t Get Hired By Apple
Not long after the Clarendon Apple Store opened, I applied for a job there. At the time I was in there every couple months, either with a display problem in my PowerBook G4 or an overheating problem in my G4 Cube. The process with the Cube had me convinced that I was somehow playing an unplanned game of Stump the Genius. I could get the computer to crash at home, but in several days of them leaving it on in a stress test they couldn’t duplicate the problem (in the end I determined that it was bad RAM that only failed when very hot). At the time I had a decent (but not spectactular) job and the idea of going to work for Apple was intriguing. I never heard anything.
Time passed, and like nearly everyone at my old company I got laid off. I found out through a contact that it was generally better to apply in person at an Apple Store, so I dropped by and spoke to the store manager — who took my resume and a paper application, but who said I should apply online as well. So I did. I still never heard anything.
A couple years later, after yet another layoff at yet another company, I revised my resume and submitted it again. Still nothing.
Keep in mind that all this time I’ve continued to buy and use Apple products, and still had the occasional game of Stump the Genius:
- Why does my iPod sometimes skip the first song on an album?
- Why does the FireWire port on my Mac mini randomly stop working?
- Do I need to worry about how hot my MacBook Pro is running?
The resolutions to those problems are illuminating:
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