[HN Gopher] The time I yoga-balled an Apple store employee
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The time I yoga-balled an Apple store employee
Author : jasoneckert
Score : 54 points
Date : 2023-01-07 20:16 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| nimbius wrote:
| the 2000s were a lawless hellscape of chumba wumba, shrek and
| apple stores where you had to have core strength to consume the
| product. the average apple employee had to be resilient enough to
| withstand half a dozen yoga balls per shift fired at terminal
| velocity from the endless batallions of corpulent arse fitted to
| cloistered exurban trophy wives who only want and consume. during
| the holidays it was a bloodbath of fat slippery arses embiggened
| in so much wetzel pretzel butter from the seldom sanitized food
| court catapulting plastic denizens of futurism into unsuspecting
| children and macbooks alike. these corporate wardogs also had to
| be savvy ebough to explain in plain english that 2000 era maps
| would inevitably plunge the family truckster off a cliff if given
| half a chance, and that the iphone 1 had to be charged six times
| a day for the privilege of flexing on karen bakowdkis shotty
| latke recipe in real-ish time.
| plondon514 wrote:
| I hope you're a writer because this was a hilarious comment.
| Thank you.
| grugagag wrote:
| No chatGpt will ever be able to do that
| hermanradtke wrote:
| It will now...
| jorgesborges wrote:
| I find it remarkable that there was chain-wide adjustment to
| seating without direct customer intervention -- a good employee
| recognized the danger, and maybe felt gratitude for how benign
| the incident was, and immediately went up the chain and made a
| change without the person even mentioning it to management or
| lodging a complaint. Good on all persons involved.
|
| Also love that the OP sat down to continue playing: that's the
| only reasonable option after something like that happens.
| andrewflnr wrote:
| I don't understand what actually happened. All the yoga balls
| I've encountered are pretty grippy and don't quite store enough
| energy to get airborne just from rolling off the side. If
| anything I would expect it to keep trying to roll over me once I
| hit the ground.
| smoldesu wrote:
| Suffice to say, he sat on it wrong.
| genocidicbunny wrote:
| The corners were too rounded.
| samspenc wrote:
| So he sat on it round then.
| [deleted]
| mozman wrote:
| I can't read this with that awful font - BLUF?
| [deleted]
| vocodab wrote:
| [flagged]
| bbbbbnbbss wrote:
| [flagged]
| azinman2 wrote:
| Is it some new JavaScript framework or whatever? No. But it was
| technologically adjacent and I found it entertaining. YMMV.
| cududa wrote:
| Problem solving comes in all shapes, forms, inspirations, and
| Smurfs.
|
| Sometimes a customers problem is software. Sometimes it's
| hardware. This was a customer demonstrating an edge case and
| the provider rapidly deploying a simple solution that also
| prevents physical injury/ liability.
|
| I personally found it intellectually gratifying, maybe you
| didn't. Just scroll on past it.
| jonsen wrote:
| Also gratifying to ponder what makes a yoga ball fly upwards
| that high just from someone falling off. Never seen anything
| like that.
| corobo wrote:
| I don't know the technical but my quick thought is that
| slipping backwards stretched out the front of the rubbery
| ball.
|
| Once the ball clears the ass, this material springs back to
| its natural position. The force of this return bounce is
| enough to send the light ball flying.
| filoleg wrote:
| > It's literally just a story about someone being hit by a yoga
| ball because someone else sat on it wrong
|
| I read it more as a story about that incident happening, then
| Apple introducing a pretty clever solution to it at that store,
| and then later at other Apple stores with yoga balls.
|
| Sure, we cannot confirm the causal chain here for certain. But
| if it was indeed causal, then it is a pretty good story about a
| tech company taking feedback about a very small thing at an
| individual store level, quickly figuring out a neat fix to
| address it, and then rolling it out at other locations.
|
| And yes, I would find it pretty interesting, even if it was the
| same story about a non-tech retailer as well. After all, how
| many times have we seen that famous story on the frontpage of
| HN about the Costco founder threatening the CEO if he ever even
| attempted to raise the price of Costco hotdogs? I've seen it
| myself quite a few times over the years, and it usually tends
| to generate a pretty lively discussion in the comments.
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