21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com, Mike Daisey

"21 Dog Years" is a laugh-out-loud look at the insanities of working for the web's biggest retailer in the early days of the dot-com boom. Daisey began his tenure with Amazon working in customer service, where even the lowliest temp worker obsessed hourly about the stock prices of the company. He takes a humorous tone, but doesn't sugarcoat his ultimate message, which is that the economic environment in the company was highly corrupting, superficial and self-centered from the lowest to the highest levels. "21 Dog Years" is a must-read for anyone interested in the evolution of the Internet economy, Amazon itself, or the nature of the Seattle job market.
Posted by supersusie at September 3, 2002 11:21 AM