21 dog years
by Mike Daisey · first published 2002
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"Boy meets dot-com, boy falls for dot-com, boy flees dot-com in horror. So goes one of the most perversely hilarious love stories you will ever read, one that blends tech culture, hero worship, cat litter, Albanian economics, venture capitalism, and free bagels into a surreal cocktail of delusion.". "In 1998, when Amazon.com went to temp agencies to recruit people, they gave them a simple directive: send us your freaks. Mike Daisey - slacker, onetime aesthetics major, dilettante - seemed perfect for the job. His ascension from lowly temp to customer service representative to business developm
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Here's a couple that I've enjoyed lately. Only "The Deal" and "21 Dog Years" are tech centered, but all of them are good reads and amusing. Descriptions are pulled from Amazon. I've included affiliate codes, but feel free to strip them. "Then We Came To The End" by Joshua…
on “Ask HN: Are there any good fictional books about Coders/Companies?” ↗21 Dog Years, by Mike Daisey, briefly discussed conditions at Amazon's warehouses even though the focus of the book was on cube farm hell. Daisey's descriptions match those of the author of this article. http://www.amazon.com/21-Dog-Years-Doing-Amazon-com/dp/07432...…
on “True Wage Slavery” ↗Mike Daisey's book, 21 Dog Years, briefly discussed conditions at Amazon's warehouses even though cube farm hell was the focus of the book. I don't have the book, anymore, but, going from memory, Daisey's account matches those of the…
on “I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave: Inside the online-shopping shipping machine” ↗