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She ended up on the one PM to nine PM shift today, which Mac totally appreciated at first: getting a couple extra hours to sleep in? Always excellent.
It became a lot less excellent at about four-thirty, when one of her coworkers looked up at the rest of the Genius Bar crew, said, "Guys," in a tiny voice, and swiveled the monitor around so they could read the email she'd just received. Around them, half the customers were seeing the same headline pop up on their Twitter feeds, their own emails, the news site they'd just been browsing; "Oh my God," somebody said aloud, and that broke the hush apart into disbelieving murmurs.
Mac managed to hold it together until closing -- small favors, right? -- and spent the whole drive home with her eyes blurred by tears.
Now she's at a table, half-heartedly rubbing down her iPad with a microfiber cloth. The screen's had all the dust and fingerprints swept off of it for the past fifteen minutes, but she's showing no sign of letting up. Right now, you'd have to forcibly pry that tablet out of her hands to get her to stop.
It became a lot less excellent at about four-thirty, when one of her coworkers looked up at the rest of the Genius Bar crew, said, "Guys," in a tiny voice, and swiveled the monitor around so they could read the email she'd just received. Around them, half the customers were seeing the same headline pop up on their Twitter feeds, their own emails, the news site they'd just been browsing; "Oh my God," somebody said aloud, and that broke the hush apart into disbelieving murmurs.
Mac managed to hold it together until closing -- small favors, right? -- and spent the whole drive home with her eyes blurred by tears.
Now she's at a table, half-heartedly rubbing down her iPad with a microfiber cloth. The screen's had all the dust and fingerprints swept off of it for the past fifteen minutes, but she's showing no sign of letting up. Right now, you'd have to forcibly pry that tablet out of her hands to get her to stop.