However, this guy’s rant does have some important life lessons that should be pointed out. First of all, any type of degree in English is completely and utterly useless unless you’re planning on being a teacher from the outset and even at that, it’s still not very helpful. Secondly, this guy is a great example of what happens to people to lack real ambition and focus in life. You become a Liberal activist, middle-aged bookworm who shoots for degree after degree that might bring meaning to their life, but probably still lives at home and occasionally frequents the local brothel. Thirdly, attitude is everything and if you think you’re too good for something, it’s probably that something that is too good for you. Oh, last but not least, get the hell out of Reno, NV if you ever want to do anything with your life!!! It’s a two bit town with nothing to offer but low class gambling, cheap buffets, and crime.

Anything else you’d like to complain about? Was the coffee at Starbucks too hot and you want to sue them because you lacked the common sense to let it cool before you sipped it? Did you get cut by a book’s sharp pages and want to sue the publisher for making a defective book?

Keep it simple. Keep it related.

This is the longest bluthering on about something that should not taken nearly as long to discuss. There are numerous statements that are just not cohesive English, let alone have any point to the initial story.

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I’ll say that he does touch upon the Apple Store universals: it’s [sic] is retail, bleh, and it has it’s [sic] inherent issues

I’m tempted to make a remark about the domiciliary choices of stone-throwers, but it occurs to me that maybe those guys were writing like non-native speakers of English as a joke. Clever!

Personally, I sympathize with the original author’s disillusionment and sense of unfulfilled promise, though I certainly wouldn’t have abandoned a job, as he did, without giving reasonable notice. Apple owes much of its success to seeming not to be a mammoth money-grubbing bureaucracy. Even employees can be taken in by its [no apostrophe] pose and bitter when the scales fall from their eyes. Of course, the setting for this story could equally well have been any gigantic bureaucracy — Apple, Radio Shack, Wal-Mart, or the Department of Homeland Security. But Apple’s continual and very public antibureaucratic posturing makes it an irresistible target.

It’s [apostrophe] true, though, that some of those above do have a literary leg up on the original author: those who write comments like “what a moron,” “I wouldn’t wanna be the coworker of a shmuck like you anyway,” and “I hope he has to sell his iMac to cover his mom’s bills [for cancer treatment]” do manage to reveal more — with far greater concision and evocative power — than the ex-employee does about human moral insufficiency and viciousness. [IFO-Whoa!]