Nov 18 2009This Wasn't In The Job Description: Microsoft Store Employees Required To Dance

I danced.....just sayin

But naas, did you dance like nobody was watching.....just sayin?

first!

yea i went to a call center and everyone was smiling it was messed up i felt like such a phony

sorry nevermind but wow

I threw my hands up in the air & danced like nobody cared....just sayin

i danced danced like the roof was on fire..just sayin

IMA CHARGIN MY DANCER... jus sayin.

Is the guy with the camera stalking the girl in the green? He was around her for the whole video but seemed like he was scared to tape her for too long or something.

Just weird

And this is exactly why microsoft is better

You should be sorry kenneth. Saying you're 1st when clearly we can see you came in 3rd which is 2nd loser! The audacity!....justifiably saying.

LMFAO
I bet there was someone at cash all like:
"CAN I GET SOME FREAKING SERVICE!??!?!?!"

Shoplifting at 2:14.

Microsoft employee attention fail.

And then they all started singing in unison "can i get some freaking service?" and created a whole song and dance number out of it. Happens all the time when I shop....just sayin.

Check out the hogans on the chick in green. No wonder the camera man was focusing on her.

@12 - Excellent!! Genuine lollage, genuine shoplifting and genuine Microsoft employee attention fail!!! On a side note I would ride greeny, maybe... I can't see her face... Hang on, I can see her not-so-microsofts!!! (See what I did there!) Too right I'd ride her!

They're doing the electric slide, just to different music.

@12 GREAT CATCH!!! Thats going on my page. I'm gonna give you credit for the find.... just sayin.

@12 I had to watch it 3 times before seeing it at that point, brilliant catch man!! ...just sayin

That was so gay. I feel sick, actually. I'm switching to MACS forever!

So while all the staff are all dancing...why ISNT ANYONE STEALING ANYTHING!!

this is a trick used by most employees to attract customers

i taught this to my brother last year

so old

I think that the green girl was hired for more PR, I am seeing the whole employees sitting in a room with the WTF I am not doing this bullshit, expression on there face.
And the green girl: This will be fun. And damn she was wrong.

microsoft is sooo grooovy....just sayin'

Is it me or are they all fat??? You americans :) always the tune to jugde never to understand... I guess the way you chose's better

Okay to everyone who was saying the girl at 2:14 was shoplifting: I watched it again and again and all I can see is her putting the brochure or whatever the heck it was into her bag. Yeah, her hand got close to the display but I never saw her grab anything off there. She just got tired of holding the paper. But, now that you mention it, if I ever encounter employees merrily/stupidly dancing together I'm taking full advantage of the situation and have a five finger discount of my own....just hypothetically sayin.

this is just sad.
it was a crap dance anyway. it was 5 or 6 steps repeated.
damm uppermiddle class america is weird at times.

how low are you if you think these people are upper-middle class!

Drink! Mozzletoff!

Then line dance!!

Man,
And people wonder why Apple stores are doing well. Come on. These lame noobs do a dance TO AN EMPTY STORE!
There is nothing cool about this and 60% of the employees know it and are embarased to be there. If you dont see this, maybe you should be part of the..... cool crew that is Microsoft Store!!!! (Man, I'm going to barf)

case and point why MAC is waaaayyyy better. First microsoft is late on the store chain game and then they throw in this dance.... who wants to shop while this off-beat clapping is going on for 5 MINS. Lame... just sayin

"achie breakie heart failure FTL"

WOW, that place looks exactly like, uhhhh, i don't know...an APPLE store, except a lot less cool. i have the same look on my face when they sing happy birthday to me at TGI.Fridays.

I think they are trying to re-create the biggest flash mob dance in the world....FAIL!!

Skip to 52 seconds....it really is good!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yBFbAm8sQE

Yes, this was a very very bad idea. However, I do NOT see this as being another stupidA$$ argument if Mac or Microsoft is better.. this is just about the cheeziest sales tactics I've EVER SEEN... seriously, I would love to see someone just throw flaming piles of BigDog $hit at all of these pride less sorry people. Just makes me sick!

It's almost painful to watch Microsoft trying to be "with it". I feel like I'm watching the Dad from Modern Family dance to a tune from HS musical.

This is perfect vindication for me pirating all of my micro$haft software.

I knew there was a reason to sh1t all over this f ucked up company.

@ 33
Flash mobs are lame in general.

a few hundred people doing something lame all at once doesn't make it cool.

That is the lamest goddamned piece of shit I have ever seen, They finally get a fucking clue and take the Apple model of how you should run a reatil store, and then go way fucking overboard and dance the electric slide. Is this really a dance though? And they did it for 4:44 seconds, the same 10 goddamn dance steps over and over again. Stupid Assholes every one of them. If they start dancing in Apple store 's then I will start cutting myself like Lindsey Lohan.

chick in the green shirt looks like someone's been rubbing a dry bleach rag on her thighs. haha! i look like the fat guy in the red shirt in the beginning.

i think it's great. what's wrong with some happy people doing happy things?

I'm gonna give you credit for the find.... just sayin.

This is just embarrassing and shows how out of touch Microsoft actually are. I can just imagine Bill Gates doing this on Christmas Day. They're trying desperately to be Apple.

Why's it go on for so long annoying clapping sound.

I'll still buy their shit, but I sure as hell won't be dancing to get to it....just saying.

The exact thing happens in "Joe's Crab Shack" food joints like once every 30min to tunes from 'Saturday Night Fever'. Yes it's annoying then as well, but The Shack mostly hires teh hawtness chickadees. Mostly.

And what's with all the Moobs? Get off the crappy line dancing and get your fat asses groovin' to Jazzercise! HO! YEAH!

@24, no, you're fat.

@26, DUH! it's called the Hustle. It's supposed to be the same steps over & over.

The chick in the green shirt needs some properly fitted jeans. A person big on top with chicken legs should NEVER wear tight skinny jeans. *BARF*

hate my firewalll... just sayin

@ 40 ... What's wrong with happy people doing happy things!!!? I don't think the Nazi's were too sad when they were doing mass extinctions, so I guess that makes the Holocaust okay then? I tell you what would make me happy... Letting BigDog take a crap on your porch.

FIRST... just sayin.

...and that's when you start shoving as much merch in your bag as possible and casually walk out the store. Good idea Microsoft!!

@45 My wife calls that the "Loli-pop" look.
I was in a Mac store and they were dancing to Bel Biv Devo's "Do Me" and Salt & Peppa's "Push It"..... just sayin.

Like it wasn't bad enough having to work at a Microsoft store.

5 minutes of these fat asses pretending to have "fun" while shoppers sit and wait?

Jesus H. Christ on a Popsicle stick!!!!!!!!!

4 minutes in the same dance????????

Jesus... phucking Christ... that is the poorest excuse of an electric slide!!! First the cabbage patch, now the electric slide... leave a brah at least one dance!!!

UPDATE: After looking for proper Electric Slide, i found that it gets worse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs08KfTb_tE

Eff it... i give up... you all can have the dance!!!

4 minutes of the electric slide to an already boring black eyed peas song..

WHITE PEOPLE

One could joke that they're basically trying to distract customers so they don't see how terrible Microsoft products are, but I couldn't help but notice how many god damn employees there are in one moderately sized niche-store. Seriously? Anyone ever hear of hiring caps? When Microsoft trims a little here or there I can see 10-15 employees in THIS store alone being canned.

It might be more impressive if they weren't just doing the 'boot scootin' boogie' line dance which is basically three steps in a row over and over again until you want to gouge your friggin eyes out and were just free-styling and gettin' low instead.

@15
ROTL. Ride of the greeny. Well u better not give her any microsofts for her not-so-microsofts.

@17
Thanks Closet Nerd!

So many man-titties so little time.

and while there singing and dancing im gonna be walking out of the store with a laptop

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Not using a product because of people dancing. Great argument.

I have stood waiting in one of those damn stores for 25 minutes while the employees got their sh*t together. This explains a lot.

I love how the Microsoft store looks like an Apple store...and they're all wearing the same minimalist t-shirts and name badges that the Apple employees wear. Too bad they're not Apple. How many blue screens of death occured during this dance? I'm going to say at least 7...

I already see a thief raving out from this office with several notebooks in his backpack ))

I like how all of you can sit there and judge these people when all they are trying to do is have a little fun, or saying how bad a company is because instead of standing around jerking eachother off while customers ask stupid questions; this group of individuals decided to make the work place a bit more fun and inviting for outsiders. And I like how people can sit behind their computer screens with their grease covered keyboard, fingers that push down two keys at a time and say that this is stupid or gay, or that this company is copying another company. Why not just chill out and shut up and ignore it if you don't like it, or if it really bothers you that much go apple. Because we all know you are not the Almight Messiah come back to reign your supreme judgement over everyone. Have a wonderful day

@45 like omg I am too fat to even fit into skinny jeans so I have to pick on people who can actually fit into them. Like I am so insecure about myself.

Did I sound like 45 enough guys, I sure hope I did, I just have so many insecurities!!! Please look at me.

You want to see how quickly windows 7 boots up? sure! Let me turn the power on...

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Oh look, it's already loaded! gee whiz that was fast!

Wankers. This is (one of the many reasons) why I hate people.

nice!!! green girl

Kudos, but I'm pretty sure you are wrong and people do sit in these stores for hours at a time. I've even seen it. There's free unlimited internet usage at a very hi speed & plenty of Pc's and gadgets to play around with. Have you seen the signs in stupid Apple stores that say "Please restrict computer usage to 30 minutes max. For Potential Customers Only." ... yea, Microsoft doesn't do that in their huge stores like this one. There are plenty of computers you can see in the video and there are a lot of kids using them. I remember when my mom shopped for hours for Christmas or whatnot, and I would wonder around into brookstone or EBGames, to fiddle with any electronics I could find in the mall... for hours until she was done & called my cell. If I had had a huge Microsoft store with unlimited computers, I could have just sat in one spot & browsed the internet during those times.

this is quite possibly the lamest shit I've ever seen.

+1 @ 38, 42

I WOULD PWN THEM ALL!!!!!11!! I WOULD BUST OUT WITH SOME MELBOURN SHUFFLE !!!

I swear the microsoft stores have an uncanny resemblance to that of the Apple stores ... And Who was serveing the customers, They had to all just stand there in the que for 4 minutes while everyone danced ? ID HAVE SO GONE HULK ON THEM !!! ... and then i've bundeled lots of shiney pc's up and ran away ... and no one would of noticed as they were all busy getting on there grove ...

Why the fk is walking back and forth a bit called "electric slide"?

Nothing electric about it and definitely no sliding.

Electric Slide...
If I was in the store, I would leave.

@69
lmao i was thinking the same thing.