21 Dog Years, Doing Time @ Amazon

Daisey, Mike

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Langue : anglais

Edité par The Free Press, New York, 2002

0743225805 / 9780743225809

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New York: The Free Press, 2002. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. Not price clipped ($23.00). No chips. No tears. No creases. Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. No remainder marks. Pages are fresh and crisp, obviously never read. Bound in the original orange boards, with yellow spine. First printing, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. From the dust jacket: "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 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 development hustler over the course of twenty-one dog years is the stuff of both dreams and nightmares. With lunatic precision, Daisey describes the lightless cube farms in which book orders were scrawled on Post-its while technicians struggled to bring computers back online; the fourteen-hour days fueled by caffeine, fanaticism, and illicit day-trading from office desks made from doors; his strange compulsion to send free books to Norwegians; and the fevered insistence of BizDev higher-ups that the perfect business partner was Pets com -- the now-extinct company that spent all its assets on a sock puppet. In these pages, you'll meet Warren, the cowboy of customer service, capable of verbally hog-tying even the most abusive customer; Amazon employee #5, a reclusive computer gamer worth a cool $300 million, who spends at least six hours a day locked in his office killing goblins; and Jean-Michele, Mike's girlfriend and sparring partner, who tries to keep him grounded, even as dot com mania seduces them both. At strategic intervals, the narrative is punctuated by hysterically honest letters to CEO Jeff Bezos -- missives that seem ripped from the collective unconscious of dot com disciples the world over. 21 DOGYEARS is an epic story of greed, self-deception, and heartbreak, a wickedly funny anthem to an era of bounteous stock options and boundless insanity." . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition./Fine dust jacket. 8vo. (x), 227pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. …

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Titre
21 Dog Years, Doing Time @ Amazon
Auteur
Daisey, Mike
Éditeur
The Free Press, New York
Année de publication
2002
État de l'article
Fine condition.
Jaquette
Fine dust jacket
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0743225805
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780743225809
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First Printing of the First Edition.
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Business History, Science / Technology / Computers

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