Ask a former applecare tech support guy anything.
Worked for over a year doing tech support for both OSX and iOS.
Ask away /g/ents.
Pic related... My face after every other call.
>>53622485
How frequent is that "My MBP makes a chainsaw noise" problem?
>>53622526
Not very...and were not gonna help unless they buy applecare anyway... Unless it's new.
What was the most frustrating experience you had?
>>53622526
>My MBP makes a chainsaw noise
lol wut
>>53622485
share some stories
>>53622758
Any email related call with an old person...they always without fail do not know they're own password and use the email address provided by their ISP.
Also old people who get iPads as gifts because face time is apparently easier than actually visiting the elderly.
Had a few people call me names but that was more amusing than anything.
Mexicans who use their English speaking children to translate are hellish also.
most MBPs have removed almost all of the moving parts. if your MBP is making a chainsaw noise, maybe you need to close youtube.
>>53622803
OK my best call ever went EXACTLY like this...
A man with an accent like foghorn Leghorn called and said this.
'I'm not gonna lie son...here it is straight. I'm old and my wife is gone...now how do I make these tits on the internet bigger?'
I told the guy how to enlarge the screen and it ended up being a kudos call where he wanted to tell my manager how awesome I was for helping him look at porn.
The next day they tied a balloon to my chair and drew a nipple on it...
How much did you get prank called?
>>53622842
Almost never. Shitload of people accused me of reading from a script or lying to them though...and we don't really do either.
I did have someone call asking about a fucking gen 3 iMac she got at a flea market for 30 bucks. She actually expected tech support for it and called me an asshole for not being any help.
>>53622842
Now I DID get a shitload of iOS calls which went like this...'I forgot my password to unlock dis iPhone...how do I use it'
Or in other words a shitload of ghetto sounding people who wanted me to help them access a stolen phone...shit happened at least 4 times a night.
I'll tell ya this...if you want to fuck with the apple store take a screenshot and set it to full-size...then invert the screen colors...do this to a few laptops and the entire fucking store will grind to a goddamned halt.
And no they almost never figure out why clicking on the 'desktop' isn't working. Us applecare people would occasionally make field trips to the mall just to screw with them for awhile. They are the short bus employees.
>>53622485
tfw cleaning jizz off of keyboards for a year long
>>53623030
You must have worked in a store...I'm so sorry to hear that.
What was it like working with dipshit people all day?
How are the benefits and the money?
>>53623082
No benefits and barely above minimum wage. You can get bonuses for selling applecare and getting high call surveys.
Moving to tier 2 support (what I was) nets you a little more but still not shit.