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Dot-Com Work Culture Making a Comeback?

Posted by Zonk on from the brace-yourselves-lads-you-know-what-comes-next dept.

jeebus writes "This week a Deloitte study has shown that high on the agenda of CEOs around the world is the shortage of tech talent. Is a shortage of talented geeks in the market seeing a return of the dot-com culture with foosball tables, beanbags, and inflated salaries used to entice talented workers? Welcome to Web 2.0 work culture, the future of yesterday. 'Global recruitment companies were telling prospecting employees that they were no longer going to be employed just because they were a technical guru. They were going to have to learn to dress, communicate, and adapt all the traditional corporate ideals that IT has been exempt from during the dot-com boom. Fast forward to Web 2.0 and while workplaces aren't as cheesy with their decor as they were were in the late '90s, and developers aren't getting paid $100K for being HTML and JavaScript jockeys, geeks just aren't chuffed with corporate culture.'"

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  1. Anyone hiring? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm an excellent slacker... err superstar geek programmer.

    1. Re:Anyone hiring? by angus_rg · · Score: 3, Funny

      Ah yes, there are more jobs availible now then were at the first dotcom bust. The first bust made people fear getting into IT because of job stability, and less and less are studying computer science/information systems as a result.

      Enter Cash Cow 2.0.........

  2. Re:sigh by mgabrys_sf · · Score: 3, Funny

    re:"yea cant wait for DotComBurst 2.0"

    You must be a barrel of kicks at parties:

    "Happy Birthday. You're closer to death now you know. Can't wait."

  3. All I know... by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Any company that won't let me bring my bong to work isn't worth working for.

    Thank God Sony gave me this great job developing games for the PS3.

    --
    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
    1. Re:All I know... by genner · · Score: 5, Funny

      So they are making another Katamari game.

    2. Re:All I know... by EveryNickIsTaken · · Score: 5, Funny

      You're an inspiration to us all.

  4. Re:sigh by Architect_sasyr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nah, I usually grin at my aunts and uncles at funerals and say "You're next".

    Stops them suggesting marriage anytime soon.

    --
    Me failed English...
    FreeBSD over Linux. If my comments seem odd, this may explain...
  5. Laid back work environment, eh? by Skee09 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Goodbye, pants!

  6. Re:misconception about salaries? by Red+Flayer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yar, I'm looking at you.
    Yar! right back at you, matey, but what does piracy have to do with this?

    Also, please stop looking at me, I haven't had the chance to put my eye-patch on today.
    --
    "Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
  7. Re:Clothes are a cost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't believe I am reading about ironing on "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters." wtf?

  8. Re:I still do good by Xinef+Jyinaer · · Score: 4, Funny

    He actually just hires 20 Indian Programmers to do the work for him.

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    Some days I just get bored and Troll post all the memes I can think of...
  9. Re:It's not THAT good yet... by easter1916 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I used to work for Enterprise Rent-A-Car... they were naming iSeries and Sun servers after some cheesy thing like superheros or whatever. One day, I was honored to be allowed to name a new series of servers. My first suggestion was "Ted" (as in Bundy). Serial killer server names! Nobody saw the humor in it and I wasn't asked again.

  10. Re:it's going to come up by TheLink · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm mayed to hear that.

    While that's an advertent remark, it's fairly promptu and something to sneeze at, after all the original inspiration is far more ept and sipid:

    http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/how-i-me t-my-wife.html

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  11. Re:It actually works this time... by grimJester · · Score: 3, Funny

    4.GOTO1
    5. PROFIT!

    This is why so few coders ever get rich...