Microsoft Store Employees Dancing

Windows must be so awesome to have dance people make up for it's shortcomings...

I MEAN, uhhh... go flames go!

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Look to me like the customers are enjoying it. Some of you guys need to get away from the computer and have some fun in life for once. I, for one, would certainly smile if that happened when I was there.

DoggyDaddi said:
Wal-Mart does this to their employees as well, its retarded and humiliating to the workers, but management actually expects you to participate or you're not considered 'cooperative'. It can count against you later in decisions involving a promotion between candidates.

Fucking retarded.. I think the use the same Ad firm Wal-mart does
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Retarded and humiliating? If someone is such an uptight, pretentious asshole that he can't stand to be friendly and cheerful for sixty seconds in the morning, he shouldn't be working in the service industry.
 
^EDIT: And yeah, these MS employees suck at dancing, but isn't that the fun of it? Store employees doing something store employees don't normally do. An unexpected event to break the monotony of boring everyday life.
 
Scientific Proof it only takes one reasonably good looking woman to make an entire room full of guys act like idiots.
 
I absolutely love it. The bastardization of that song just makes me warm and tingly inside.
Green was hot.
 
Meh, videos always look bad compared to seeing things in real life.

It's like photography where they snap the camera and you're yawning or whatever. It'll look embarrassing on camera, but in person, who gives a damn?
 
i love restaurants that do this. But the ones that do tend to hire people you'd actually wanna watch dance...
 
I wonder what ass clown in marketing came up with this brilliant idea.

I'd can them if I were Ballmer, but than again Ballmer is just as strange as these people. Hell, it was probably his idea.
 
alot of retailers force their employees to do shit like this. If you don't feel like you want to or if you are too embarassed then you are shunned and will be getting coach out of a job very quickly. I personally never saw any benefit. It's barely amusing when hooters girls do it so it's hardly relevant when you see workers doing this when you're trying to scope out a lappy or some other products.. This is usually the result of some middle management trying to impress upper levels by coming up with "high energy" "fun" ideas to motivate the staff and customers.....
 
Makes me think of the time a Coldstone Creamery opened in a nearby town. 25-minute line, and everytime someone tipped, they had one of about half a dozen rhyming chants with choreography.
My SO prevented me from saying "I'll chip in a twenty if you STOP for the next fifteen minutes".
 
At texas road house they do this, but it's 99% hot chicks dancing around and i just can't keep my eyes off of them. Almost thought about complaining cause my food got cold once.
 
This rehearsed "spontaneity" is a typical example of what happens when a behind-the-curve ad exec or admin staffer pitches an idea based on something they saw another company do or something they saw on a Youtube video.
Companies often seem to struggle with the perception that their advertising has to be "fresh" and "edgy", no matter how mundane their product is.

You end up with a derivative ad campaign, as opposed to a unique one.
Usually a bad strategy, in my opinion.

The other source of this kind of stuff is the endless variations of "team building" exercises that come from a mind-numbing number of management consultants.

Either that or Balmer's favorite movie is Urban Cowboy....:D
 
well whatever you want to say, it worked. The youtube is floating around all of the internet, the Microsoft brand is clearly identifiable. More or less free viral advertising.
 
Tahts in the mall near my house! Oh man- I can't wait to go in and ask where the new iMacs are. Then when they tell me its a Microsoft store, I will say something like, "Look, I'm not some computer geek ok- I'm just looking for an iMac for my wife- it's what she wants."
 
I can think of many ways to make that a fun place, and line dancing to Black Eyed Peas is not one of them!

What a failed marketing attempt. Sheesh!!:mad:
 
`danny said:
This reminds me of Texas Roadhouse except that's a restaurant and I would expect that there. Seriously though Microsoft how out of touch can you be?
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Yeah, or Joe's Crab Shack. I DESPISE when the staff starts dancing while I'm trying to enjoy a meal. They don't enjoy it, we don't enjoy it, don't fucking do it.
 
Steve, fyi -- In the case you are using it "you are trying to hard", it is spelled "too".

Sorry, pet peeve, you have no idea how many people use that word incorrectly.
 
And not to double post, but holy shit they don't stop. They're still going... Still going... Please stop.
 
dj_spanmaster said:
I've been in this forum for years, but it's never been clear to me - how exactly does one 'hard'?
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*too hard. :p

We'll see how long it takes Steve to catch it (if he does), haha.

I have to go along with the general consensus; that's the most awkward moment I could imagine myself in if I was in a Windows store. I'm pretty sure I would just leave until they were done, lol.
 
Haha, that's awesome.....a lot better than some stupid crap an Apple store would do.
 
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