{"id":50,"date":"2003-06-14T07:14:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-14T07:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=50"},"modified":"2007-07-13T08:25:23","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T12:25:23","slug":"21-dog-years-by-mike-daisey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/14\/21-dog-years-by-mike-daisey\/","title":{"rendered":"21 Dog Years, by Mike Daisey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.mikedaisey.com\/>Mike Daisey&#8217;s website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subtitled &#8220;doing time @ amazon.com&#8221;, this is a memoir of Daisey&#8217;s two years at Amazon.  It&#8217;s an entertaining account, starting with his being interviewed at Amazon because he fit their profile of being a freak (or as he more charitably describes himself, a dilettante).  He suffers through life in customer service, figuring out how to game the system to make himself look better (to keep his time\/call average down, he would just hang up immediately on every third or fourth caller).  He eventually manages to talk his way into a position in business development, which he admits he still can&#8217;t define.  Along the way, he contemplates the &#8220;Cult of Jeff&#8221; (Bezos, founder and grand poobah of Amazon), the hell of Christmas season, mission statements, the rules that made Amazon work (e.g. The Heisenberg Happiness Principle, &#8220;As the uncertainty about what Amazon.com <i>is<\/i> rises, so rises Amazon&#8217;s stock price.&#8221;), the joys of One-Click ordering when stuff will get delivered right to your desk, etc.  Daisey eventually manages to extricate himself from Amazon (turning down a bunch of job offers from other dot-coms who latch onto his status as a bizdev person from Amazon) and start to try to make his life real again.  It&#8217;s a quick read, so I&#8217;m glad I got it from the library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Daisey&#8217;s website Subtitled &#8220;doing time @ amazon.com&#8221;, this is a memoir of Daisey&#8217;s two years at Amazon. It&#8217;s an entertaining account, starting with his being interviewed at Amazon because he fit their profile of being a freak (or as he more charitably describes himself, a dilettante). He suffers through life in customer service, figuring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun_nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}