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Microserf

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(jargon)Microserf - Wired magazine's term for a Microsoft employee.


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But for those with big concentrations of employees in densely packed locales--think of the 40,000 Microserfs and their 58,000 dependents in the Puget Sound area alone--the long-term rewards and savings can be substantial.
They sit at computer-free desks thinking outside the inbox, while their crack team of microserfs battle with spam or Google their way through virtual forests of information.
In an extension of the world of Microserfs (1995), 20-somethings Ethan Jarlewski and five other precocious engineers whose last names begin with J (hence their "JPod" cubicle) develop video games for a bureaucratic Vancouver corporation.
 
 
 
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