Cuppa’tino: Apple’s new iCup technician can’t be your average Joe

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If you’re an Apple fan (and who reading this isn’t?), there are few conversations that would be better than sitting down with one of the company’s top execs to quiz them over all things Cupertino.

That was the rationale behind a 2013 auction to raise money for the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. The prize? A cup of coffee with Tim Cook at 1 Infinite Loop. The eye-watering (iWatering?) price tag: $610,000.

Even at that price he’s not going to tell you what the iPhone 7 looks like, or if Jony Ive is working on an aluminum hover board, but it would still be the conversation of a lifetime. If you’re feeling a bit cash-strapped, you could try lunch with Mr. Fix-It Eddy Cue. A related auction went for "just" $10,000.


When it comes to the driving forces behind Silicon Valley innovation, caffeine would rank pretty high on the list.

If you’ve always wanted to get an inside peak at Apple, but don’t have the kind of computer science or engineering background you think you need, you may be interested to hear that Apple recently advertised a position as “iCup Technician.” Your job? To keep the iPhone, iPad and other Apple divisions up to their chattering teeth in coffee throughout the day.

“The Apple iCup Services is specially designed to provide a fresh brew coffee to all Apple employees within their department,” is how Apple phrases the position. “The iCup staff is also available on call during business of operation.”

Apple asks that people applying for the position have “prior work experience with coffee machines,” possess “excellent customer service skills,” have an “ability to multitask” and, naturally, possess “some computer skills.”

The successful candidate will also be able to conform to Apple’s stringent security demands, with the ad stating that applicants must “maintain the highest standards of conduct and confidentiality.”

Cupertino must have some pretty good coffee. After all, someone once paid $610,000 for a single cup! Or perhaps we’re missing something?

Source: Mercury News

 

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