Book Description
If you've worked in new media, chances are you've been
burned. Maybe you're a freelancer owed thousands of dollars
by a giant corporation. Or maybe you're someone who bet his
or her career on a content project that went sour. Maybe you
gave up a stable career to join the "web pioneers"
who were going to transform publishing, and you wound up in a
dead-end HTML coding job instead. Or maybe you're just
somebody who has worked for years helping a web-based company
get up and running, only to get a pink slip for your trouble
now that success is around the corner. If you fit any of
these descriptions, or dozens more, then you are a "Net
Slave." 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 site 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." Through this book,
anyone overwhelming, and slightly schizophrenic work
philosophy that is unique to the Net.
