Yes. Watch the video. And then let me ask this simple question.
Are you fucking kidding me?
MS opens two stores. What one might call their flagship stores. Their first entry in to the brick and mortar retail market. And in order to to look spontaneous and hip, they have their employees bring the store to a grinding halt, in order for them to do the electric slide?
I have questions.
1. Do their employees really have so much free time on their hands, that they can drop what they’re doing, in order to dance?
2. Did they go through some kind of corporate, leader led training for the slide? What is the punishment for non-participation?
3. Are their stores really so empty that they can have enough floor space to do such things?
MS is apparently not down with the lingo. They’ve seemingly lost touch with what the kids are into, and apparently still haven’t managed to grasp, figure out, or understand “cool.” They do however, manage to bring their store to a grinding halt in order to dance to one of the 5 songs the DJ at my parents wedding was forbidden to play. I’m appalled. Seriously.
Tags: electric slide, Microsoft, retail
Ha – I’m getting a kick out of the chicks who decided to join in, yet are stumbling over the dance moves *are you serious? it like 5 steps over and over again. I’m also appalled by anyone who would refer to this as techno (and there are those out there who would say it *slap before they finish the word*)
I can’t see us ever doing this, we all have a proper level of cynicism … M$ is so out of touch. I had to turn it off less than a minute in… Ugh.