Well. I suppose didn’t mention one of the best parts of being a Mac Genius: two weeks of training at Apple Corporate in Cupertino, CA. It’s officially booked. I leave at 8am on 10 June and get back into DTW at 6am on 23 June. (Thanks HR for the crazy timing, lol.)
May
20
It's official!
I got a call a couple of days ago to come into the store and do my new hire paperwork. I went in earlier today and took care of it. I put in my two weeks at my other job as of last Thursday. I met some of the people I’m going to be working with. Also, it turns out the guy training to be Genius that I met when I came in for my interview got promoted.
May
14
Wake up call.
Sleeping. Phone rings. I don’t usually bother with it, but I thought I recognised the number, wasn’t sure how, so I picked up.
Me: Errmm .. hello?
Person: This is Linda from Apple 12 Oaks. May I speak to Katherine?
Me: This is…
Here I am pulled out of dead sleep into half daze.
I think there was small talk here.
Linda: I’m doing well. I’m calling about an official job offer.
Me: O… k…
Linda: I just want to go over some things. I know you’ve worked some retail, but I just want to make sure you’re aware of some ….
May
03
Made it through the gauntlet.
Well, it wasn’t really a gauntlet. It went pretty smooth in fact.
Between a ton of interviews with the recruiter and some craziness to get interviews in with the store, everything is down to the waiting period.
Apr
09
Out of the blue.
Backstory. My MacBook crashed in a rather spectacular way and I ended up heading into the Genius Bar at Apple Somerset to get it checked out. Turns out one of the guys’ girlfriends had the same problem at some point and we fixed it pretty easily. I was having a couple of other issues intermittently as well, so after we went through fixing it, I stuck around for a few hours to mess with it and see if it would duplicate the problem. I chatted with the geniuses and other customers. I ended up talking to them a bit about the job, what it was about and what it involved. By the end of the afternoon, it was settled. I had to have this job.