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> I decided to help an elderly _friend_ > I had just been fired for helping _someone_ > they wouldn’t have fired me for helping a _customer_ This shifting la
by cmckn 6y ago
> I decided to help an elderly _friend_
> I had just been fired for helping _someone_
> they wouldn’t have fired me for helping a _customer_
This shifting language is suspicious to me; is this a friend or a customer you met at the Apple store and then helped off the clock? It sounds like this person was employed at an Apple retail store, and I can't imagine Apple having a policy that retail store employees are not allowed to help their grandparents set up a new Mac. There is 100% something else going on here.
WAG: this guy told a customer at the store that he could get the data transfer done faster, and was effectively running a Genius Bar out of his garage.
EDIT: I get that he's using different nouns in order to make his case in a few different ways. Ultimately, I think the writer did something shady and got fired for it.
- doodpants 6y agoI think "customer" in this context just means an Apple customer, which they obviously are if they have old and new Macs.
- cmckn 6y agoFair. I still think this person is being very selective with the facts of the matter; despite Apple not being incredibly nice, I don't think they're unreasonable in the way he implies.
- addicted44 6y agoWhat? He's obviously talking about the person in different contexts. The person is a friend to them, but they are also a someone, and for Apple they are a customer.
- cmckn 6y agoSure, you can read it that way. My point was that he isn't clear about the exact nature of his relationship with the person he helped, and those details are probably relevant to his termination.