"I'll never forget the moment I went viral. I was working at my other part-time job, and my phone started ringing like crazy. I thought a family member had died. I peeked and saw a text from someone saying I'd gone viral on Reddit, and they sent me a link. It was 2012, and I had never heard of Reddit. I wasn't on social media, apart from LinkedIn, so I thought the link was a scam and ignored it."
"When I called Apple back, they asked if I knew about the post. I had just moved to a new country. I was early in my career, and my first thought was that someone had posted online about me, involving work, and I was going to get fired. Looking back, it's funny because I probably had the most job security I've ever had. If Apple had fired me, it would've caused even more commotion."
"Growing up, I received a few silly comments or playground chants about my name, Sam Sung, but nothing like what happened in my early 20s. During that time, I worked at an Apple store in Glasgow, Scotland. There were friendly jokes about Sam Sung working for Apple, but it wasn't a big deal. Then I moved to Vancouver and started working at an Apple retail store."
Sam Struan experienced viral attention in 2012 after a colleague posted his Apple business card online, exposing his name Sam Sung while he worked at an Apple retail store. He had previously received minor teasing about his name as a child, but the online attention in his early 20s felt overwhelming. He was new to a country and early in his career, and he feared immediate job loss. He deactivated LinkedIn and later adopted a new name partly to escape the joke. Years later, he revisits the episode and wishes he had handled the situation differently.
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