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Summary: sort of like a twist to the movie ¿Office Space.com¿
Review: In 1998, to his horror Mike Daisey realized he needed a job if he was to support his habits of visiting cafes and participating in theater. When Amazon.com offered work, Mike accepted figuring this new adventure was perfect for a professional slacker (not hacker) like him. Mike tells his adventures as a lousy employee at the firm. He takes no prisoners as he deletes management and the entire dot com community with its so-called new economy. However, while doing what others have done before him, Mike also tears himself down with self-deprecating humor. Except for an unnecessary, out of character nasty "email" at the end, 21 DOG YEARS: DOING TIME @ AMAZON.COM is an amusing, meandering look sort of like a twist to the movie "Office Space.com".Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Finally--the Dot.Com Experience from Someone Real
Review: There have been many books about the dot-com "revolution," but most have been written by still-rich CEOs of failed ventures who seem to have forgotten about the hundreds of people who worked below them, or else have been business analyses of what went wrong. Though I did not work at a dot-com, many of my peers did, and I was interested in reading something that captured more of the heart of the experience for the average employee. Daisey has done this beautifully. As its cover promises, this book is really funny, but it also is quite moving and honest. His story of being seduced by the dream of a better life just around the corner, just out of reach, is all too believable. It captures an important moment in the life of my generation, the total fall-out of which we've all yet to see.
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Summary: Dilbert gets caught in the dot bomb frenzy
Review: This is a funny book that will hit home for anybody who has worked at a high-tech startup, and especially one of the dot coms. I am not going to give away spoilers, but let me say that if you work in high-tech, have been a part of a start-up or have suffered the slings and arrows of clueless management you'll see carticatures of those you knew in this wonderful book. Daisey is one great writer and a world class iconoclast (he prefers the term "dilettante"). Read the book and thank your favorite diety that no matter how bad you have it, it could be worse: you could be selling books over the internet.
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Summary: Endless tape that repeats itself
Review: There is no significance in this book. Most of the people already know that there are sweatshops out there. It can be in the US soils or not. They make a product or support the operations. Many companies use these practices to make money quick. Also I can imagine most of the people understand that it is difficult to be a customer service representative. I really didn't need to be told these ten thousand times. This book didn't make me laugh it made me depressed. No wonder this book is so repetitive since there is not much for author to write on the subject that it is repetitive to start with
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Summary: Insiteful and often funny
Review: Daisey gives an insightful and hilarious account of the insanity that buoyed the Clinton economy! While any account of this period of delirium where intelligent, well educated, and otherwise rational people bought into such extraordinary hype is always going to be entertaining, Daisey's metaphorical analysis and introspection had me laughing throughout most of the book. As a post dot-bomb era employee at Amazon, Daisey delivers an extra plus in helping to explain some of the weirdness that exists at Amazon to this day.
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