geeksploitation
English
editEtymology
editgeek + -sploitation.
Noun
editgeeksploitation (uncountable)
- The practice of taking advantage of highly-motivated programmers willing to work long hours.
- 2000, Richard Grayson, The Silicon Valley Diet and Other Stories, Red Hen Press, →ISBN, page 149:
- Finding a new job just meant driving to another office-park campus with dopey street names (Disc Drive, Resistor Road, Infinite Loop) to endure more geeksploitation in exchange for dead presidents, stock options, a flexible schedule, no dress code, and all the junk food I could eat.