Citations:geeksploitation

Noun: "the practice of taking advantage of highly-motivated programmers willing to work long hours"

 * 1997 — James Coates, "Generica, Semisweet Land Of Jitterati", Chicago Tribune, 8 June 1997:
 * They tend to be masters of geeksploitation, or getting workers to join the dawn patrol by putting in overnight shifts fueled by coffee, code pie (pizza) and fear of winding up circling the drain--geekspeak for what others call waiting for the axe to fall.
 * 2000 — Richard Grayson, The Silicon Valley Diet and Other Stories, Red Hen Press (2000), ISBN 9781888996234, 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.
 * 2003 — Andrew Ross, No-Collar: The Humane Workplace and Its Hidden Costs, Temple University Press (2004), ISBN 1592131506, page 10:
 * Geeksploitation among programmers in the suburban information technology (IT) and software sectors soon found its urban new media match in a phenomenon that I call the industrialization of bohemia.