NetSlaves

Net Slaves offers eyewitness accounts of how self-destructive the Internet business can be. Going beyond IPO hype and Wired futurism, this book is a humorous, and not-so-humorous, collection of stories that document the grueling hours, poor management, chronic back-stabbing, finger pointing, and wild speculation that have become standard in an industry with no real rules. The book is based upon net slaves.com, which Entertainment Weekly said, "has the potential to become the official voice of disenfranchised code monkeys," and Wired cites as "the only site where the 'web working poor' can air their feelings." Net Slaves shares the real-life stories of those who work the Web, in their own words, combined with anecdotes about what happens to people who push themselves for too long on "Internet time."

Contents

• Introduction
  
• Level 1.0: Garbagemen: The Y2K Bug Is Eating My Pizza!
  
• Level 2.0: Cops and Streetwalkers: Is That a Cellular Modem in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
  
• Level 3.0: Social Workers: Click Here for a Clean, Wett-Lighted Place
  
• Level 4.0: Cab Drivers: Another Day, Another Startup
  
• Level 5.0: Cowboys and Card Sharks: Turnkey Solutions Traced in Blood
  
• Level 6.0: Fry Cooks: Confessions of Real-Life "Dilberts"
  
• Level 7.0: Gold Diggers and Gigolos: Sex, Lies, and Hypertext
  
• Level 8.0: Priests and Madmen: Infinity in a Grain of Sand
  
• Level 9.0: Robots: Kill, Crush, Deploy!
  
• Level 10.0: Robber Barons: Who Needs Dynamite When We've Got IPOs'
  
• Index