21 Dog Years: Doing Time Amazon.Com - Couverture rigide

Daisey, Mike

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0743225805 ISBN 13 : 9780743225809

Editeur : The Free Press, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Daisey Mike

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In 1998, when Amazon.com began to recruit employees, they gave temp agencies a simple directive: send us your freaks. Mike Daisey -- slacker, onetime aesthetics major -- fit the bill. His subsequent ascension, over the course of twenty-one dog years, from lowly temp to customer service representative to business development hustler is the stuff of both dreams and nightmares. Here, with lunatic precision, Daisey describes lightless cube farms in which book orders were scrawled on Post-its while technicians struggled to bring computers back online, as well as fourteen-hour days fueled by caffeine, fanaticism, and illicit day-trading from office desks made out of doors.
You'll meet Warren, the cowboy of customer service, capable of verbally hog-tying even the most abusive customer; Amazon employee #5, a computer gamer who spends at least six hours a day locked in his office killing goblins but is worth a cool $300 million; and Jean-Michele, Daisey's girlfriend and sparring partner, who tries to keep him grounded, even as dot-com mania seduces them both.
Punctuated by Daisey's hysterically honest fictional missives to CEO Jeff Bezos, 21 Dog Years is an epic story of greed, self-deception, and heartbreak -- a wickedly funny anthem to an era of bounteous stock options and boundless insanity.

Revue de presse

John Marshall Seattle Post-Intelligencer Daisey's raucous tales of a self-professed dilettante inside the Internet pressure cooker...possess the ability to provoke horror and cosmic giggles, especially among those who reside outside dot-comland.

Glenn Fleishman The Seattle Times A well-written, fast-paced piece of gonzo biography...elegiac and wry.

Nick Wingfield The Wall Street Journal 21 Dog Years has the wry sensibility of David Sedaris.

Walter Kirn author of Up in the Air A modern Dickensian fable of pointless toil inside an industrial madhouse. Too funny not to be accurate, too heartbreaking not to be true.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Free Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0743225805
• ISBN 13: 9780743225809
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 222
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible