Ex-Apple Worker Named Sam Sung Sells Business Card From His First Store
For three years, Mr Sam Sung greeted customers at Apple retail stores. The Cupertino tech giant didn’t seem to mind the semantics tied to his name, and Sung would later report having “an incredible time working” there.
Sung went under the company’s employ in 2010, but it wasn’t until two years later that he got his big break on the Galaxy that was the internet. A customer at Apple Pacific Centre in Vancouver had spotted his business card and shared it online.
In 2014, after he had left the company, Sung auctioned off the same card to rally donations for The Children’s Wish Foundation (now Make-A-Wish Canada) in British Columbia, and children’s health nonprofit Yukon, and ended up raising over US$2,500.
His first stint at Apple, though, wasn’t at the Vancouver store. Prior to that, Sung—originally from Glasgow, Scotland—worked at Apple Buchanan Street (now Apple Glasgow), meaning he had more than one Apple business card.
The card was recently found by a family member, who mailed it over to Vancouver, where he lives now.
Sam Sung is now putting up the Apple Buchanan Street card for auction on eBay, and hopes to hand over its proceeds to the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre in Vancouver. The organization aims to “provide a safe, non-judgmental environment for self-identifying women (cis, trans, 2S), from all walks of life.”
Auctioning the original ðŸ´ó §ó ¢ó ³ó £ó ´ó ¿ Apple Sam Sung business card on eBay for charity: https://t.co/fAmoCF4Dui#Apple #Samsung #thatguysamsung #applesamsungauction pic.twitter.com/TEnzW8iPtV
— Sam Struan (formerly Sam Sung) (@samthescot) August 14, 2022
The top bidder will not only take over the business card but also an Apple employee T-shirt and Sung’s last lanyard, all of which have been custom-framed together. Just for laughs, Sung has also signed the frame with the signature, “Sam Sung.”
And since it’s 2022, Sung also intends to put up non-fungible token versions of his two business cards on the NFT marketplace OpenSea.
Sung, now a career coach who teaches jobseekers how to negotiate salaries, has changed his confusing last name “for work purposes.” He now goes by Sam Struan.
[via Nextshark and Sam Struan, images via Sam Struan]
