Millennials are being dot.conned by cult-like tech companies

New York Post ^ | April 3, 2016 | Kyle Smith

[OddLane]

Tech startups love millennials. Tasty, tasty millennials who get underpaid, overworked, churned up and turned into nourishment for venture capitalists. Millennials are the Soylent Green of the tech world.

As each batch gets mashed up, there’s a long line of new hires eager to be made into the next meal for the execs and their billionaire backers, as tech survivor Dan Lyons shows in a scathingly funny new book, “Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble” (Hachette Books).

Lyons became a strange kind of celebrity a decade ago when he began posting nutty but funny insights as “Fake Steve Jobs.” Today he’s a writer for HBO’s brilliant tech comedy “Silicon Valley,” but in between he blogged for a Boston tech company called HubSpot and wrote this book about it.

[M1903A1]

“Plus, being able to drink at work is a nice perquisite.”

The only job where I ever saw that as part of the culture was when I briefly worked for an option trading firm. In exchange for drinking (and other, ahem, “chemical assists”) you were under a gargantuan amount of stress and being yelled at left and right by superiors for the slightest screwup.

After a month or so I decided I didn’t want to look like the older veterans on the pit floor, who were mostly in their thirties and forties but looked like they were in their seventies.

[kearnyirish2]

I think many Americans are turning their backs on the long workweeks and perpetual schooling training not because they are spoiled or lazy but because they realize it still won’t get them any job stability. I don’t work in tech, but if I did I’d know that forces were scrambling furiously behind the scenes to either move my job to Asia or move an Asian here to do it. In fact, there are few jobs left (in any field) where this is not the case.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I used to work at a company where the sale staff would have a "It's Five O'Clock" beer at 5:00 pm on Friday.

Then the boss started having a beer at 4:30 pm as well as the one at 5:00 pm and whatever the boss does the staff will do.

Then it was at 4:00 and maybe something stronger than beer, then at 3:00 then noon.... When I had to call cabs to pour them into at 10:30 am I knew the end was nigh.

Too bad. That bunch could sell refrigerators to polar bears.

[tinyowl]

Poco - response to your IT Industry post/question ... been on call all week and solid head cold, not a good replier. Almost recovered -> If the conversation continued ... happy to reinsert myself over the next couple days. Hope things are good!