As a new Apple employee, after orientation, you get your first and only free lunch with your new manager. So there I am, with my shiny new employee badge, standing in line to pay, having decided upon pizza vs sushi or one of the other delicious options at Caffé Macs. Of course as a n00b, I'm trying to look cool, or at least like I fit in, as if I've eaten lunch here every day.
So I'm just looking around all nonchalantly, when BOOM who strolls into my field of view (and strolls is the word; SJ had an odd gait, kind of springy, even when he was at the peak of health) but STEVE JOBS. OMG. STAY COOL. He's right there, not 20 feet away!
Wait a second. He's headed my way. I look back at the cashier to assess the sitch. couple people in front of me (lunch rush); no way I pay and skidaddle before he closes that distance. I look back towards Steve; HE'S STILL HEADING RIGHT FOR ME. He's looking right at me!
So now it's decision time. What's the protocol here? Is he going to want cuts? there are like 6 people behind me. Is that the deal? Does SJ get automatic cuts? If so is it frontsies or back cuts? What if he asks what I do? I heard he fired a guy for answering that wrong. I don't want to be fired on my first day! GEEZ HE IS Like THREE FEET AWAY NOW and practically STARING ME DOWN.
So naturally, I peel out of line and head over to the frozen treat freezer as if I forgot to grab an It's It. Which in this case I had forgotten. Anyway. While I'm over there laying low, I look back; Steve is now selecting an Odwalla bar or something from the case next to the cash register. Which was where he'd been heading, and what he'd been looking at, all along.
And that was the first time I encountered Steve at Apple, on my first day. I never did find out what the cuts protocol was
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