• Best Buy Trying to fire guy who made HTC Evo Vs iPhone video
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[url]http://www.nbcactionnews.com/dpp/news/local_news/best-buy-trying-to-fire-employee-over-iphone4-vs.--htc-evo-video-on-youtube[/url] [QUOTE]KANSAS CITY, Missouri - A Best Buy employee has been suspended and may be fired after he created a satirical video and posted it on YouTube . Brian Maupin of Kansas City, Missouri, created the cartoon video about the iPhone 4 versus the HTC EVO phone. The video portrays an electronics store employee trying to convince a customer wanting an iPhone 4 to purchase an HTC EVO 4G phone instead. The video became so popular, more than 1. 3 million views on YouTube as of Thursday, that someone at Best Buy saw it. While most people find the video funny, Best Buy corporate did not. When they realized the creator worked for them, they asked him to take the video down. When Maupin refused to take the video down because it didn't mention Best Buy, he was suspended. "I can understand them wanting to, not wanting people to get the impression that Best Buy is like this and this is how it is when you come to our store but you also kind of have to have that, you have to be able to laugh at yourself and say I realize this is an extreme exaggeration. This isn't what is happening at this store,” Maupin said. We tried contacting Best Buy Thursday night but got no response.[/QUOTE] the video: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg&feature=player_embedded[/media]
i don't care [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Snipe" - JohnnyMo1))[/highlight]
He didn't mention best buy, he shouldn't get fired.
why would anyone wanna work at bestbuy theyre a shithole
[QUOTE=wonkadonk;23071349]why would anyone wanna work at bestbuy theyre a shithole[/QUOTE] Because you make money. And you don't really have a choice of jobs because they're in college or only completed high school. It's better than working for Wal-mart, or your local supermarket.
"I want the one with the bigger g-b's"
It fucking prints money I don't care
It is highly cos-tom-miz-a-bull.
I wonder if that same guy made this one too. [media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=dZbTxpv97Qc[/media] [b]Edited:[/b] Damn, it was removed.
You are bat shit stupid :3
[QUOTE=cyanide101;23071391]Because you make money. And you don't really have a choice of jobs because they're in college or only completed high school. It's better than working for Wal-mart, or your local supermarket.[/QUOTE] Super market -> Best buy -> wal-mart -> geek squad.
I think... I think I need to go chop off my own dick now.
Why does this apply to most iPhone 4 users?
This reminds me of the guy who made these truthfully hilarious videos about stupid paitents. It turned out he was a Medevac and he got fired.
Pretty funny video.
[QUOTE=BeardyDuck;23071285]i don't care [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Snipe" - JohnnyMo1))[/highlight][/QUOTE] He was quoting something from the video, why was he banned?
[QUOTE=BeardyDuck;23071285]i don't care [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Snipe" - JohnnyMo1))[/highlight][/QUOTE] Way to watch the video Johnny
God i love that video, even though I have an iphone myself :v:
[QUOTE=SuperLoz;23077250]He was quoting something from the video, why was he banned?[/QUOTE] I watched the video, then someone reported the post later and I forgot about it. My bad. He's been unbanned.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;23080532]I watched the video, then someone reported the post later and I forgot about it. My bad. He's been unbanned.[/QUOTE] Rated you heart for being nice. :downs:
I'm not surprised Best Buy wants to fire him. Their sales would drop if people found out they employ bears as well as serve them
It's funny because it's true.
[QUOTE=Dr. Fishtastic;23081504]I'm not surprised Best Buy wants to fire him. Their sales would drop if people found out they employ bears as well as serve them[/QUOTE] But they have no reason why. The video doesn't mention Best Buy or even references to it. He didn't show this in the store or even insult the customers in-store. He's done nothing but express his freedom of speech, and he completely left Best Buy out of it. Go fuck yourself Best Buy. [b]Edit:[/b] I just read some comments on Gizmodo. Apparently Missouri has "at will" employment. This means Best Buy can fire him whenever they want for no reason whatsoever. Way to go Missouri.
You gave me an ani-yor-iszm.
srsly, people are too dumb and ignorant to see that they are mindfucked into buying this piece of shit phone. iPhones suck, hands down. Also, watch the new "Attack of the Killer App" Futurama episode. it talks about Apple's strong hold over their dumb-ass customers.
everything from apple sucks
The most scare part is, that's actually how most Iphone users are. I know a guy who works at a Apple store, He's damn tired of the stupidity of people wanting to buy a iphone, he get's the store rookie to handle those customers instead.
[QUOTE=wonkadonk;23071349]why would anyone wanna work at bestbuy theyre a shithole[/QUOTE] Hey, I work at Best Buy :frown: Sure it's not the best it's a decent pay for what I do and I also work there as an HP rep so I'm not around the morons that Best Buy hires these days all the time.
This video speaks the truth.
This video is completely true. I had people cry to me before launch day because the phone was not shipped 3 days previous. When they only called in to fix a credit card decline the day before. Because they "didn't know what they'd do" if they didn't get the iPhone on launch day. And if I tell people like that that the system goes by the day it was processed, they ask for a supervisor, so that the supervisor can tell them 'yeah that last rep was correct'.
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