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Twenty-one Dog Years: Doing Time at Amazon.com
Daisey
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Description for Twenty-one Dog Years: Doing Time at Amazon.com
Paperback. The story of life in the frontline from the world's first dot.comic. In 1998, when Amazon.com went to temp agencies to recruit people, they gave them a simple directive: send us your freaks. Thus began Mike Daisey's love affair with the world's biggest bookstore. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGB; KNP; KNTP; UDB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 191. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
A Michael Moore for the Dot.com generation, ‘21 Dog Years’ is Mike Daisey’s wickedly funny story of life in the New Economy trenches. In 1998, when Amazon.com went to temp agencies to recruit people, they gave them a simple directive: send us your freaks. Thus began Mike Daisey's love affair with the world’s biggest bookstore. Mike Daisey worked at Amazon.com for nearly three years during the dot-com frenzy of the late nineties. Now that his nondisclosure ... Read more
A Michael Moore for the Dot.com generation, ‘21 Dog Years’ is Mike Daisey’s wickedly funny story of life in the New Economy trenches. In 1998, when Amazon.com went to temp agencies to recruit people, they gave them a simple directive: send us your freaks. Thus began Mike Daisey's love affair with the world’s biggest bookstore. Mike Daisey worked at Amazon.com for nearly three years during the dot-com frenzy of the late nineties. Now that his nondisclosure ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841157658
SKU
KKD0001658
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2
About Daisey
At 24, Mike Daisey joined one of the leading dotcoms in the US. He left in 2000, when he was 27. He has since been been a highly-acclaimed stand up comedian, planning to come to the UK in 2002, and campaigner for the rights of dotcom workers. He lives with his wife in Brooklyn.
Reviews for Twenty-one Dog Years: Doing Time at Amazon.com
Review for 21 Dog Years – the performance “Between Spalding Gray and Robin Williams.” New York Post “He doesn't pull punches. Daisey…has wreaked his own brand of havoc.“ Washington Post "Mike Daisey does what Michael Moore once did for General Motors." Entertainment Weekly “Dilbert meets Spalding Gray. Hilarity ... Read more