geeksploitation

English

Etymology

geek +‎ -sploitation.

Noun

geeksploitation (uncountable)

1. 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.