Link: Michael Arrington Wants You to Work in a Digital Sweatshop

I guess it’s time for yet another “gen­er­a­tion” of tech work­ers to wake up to the fact that the bosses are lying. We aren’t spe­cial snowflakes whose pre­cious skills are trans­form­ing the world. In real­ity we’re just as much cogs in the machine as the Chinese saps assem­bling our iPhones.

I remem­ber when I had that epiphany. It was in 1999 at the height of that tech boom when my boss flipped out because I had the audac­ity to leave when my shift was over.

I told the crack-addled prick, “You pay me by the hour, I work by the hour. Take your bean-bag-chairs, fooze­ball tables and sub­dued light­ing and shove it up your ass.”

Life is too short and too spe­cial to waste mak­ing some other ass­hole rich.