A to the G
The greatest dot-com loser story ever told:
A refugee from the bubble seeks a job in Atlanta
and is humiliated. Repeatedly.
"The chicken show"
by Andrew Grant
My arrival in Atlanta lacked appropriate fanfare. No winsome blond belle greeted my plane, delicately boned hand upturned and cupping a gently ripened peach. I noticed the distinct absence of a military band playing a rousing rendition of "Dixie" in time with my heavy footfalls. Nowhere in sight was a swarthy limo driver in a fedora clutching a sign to his chest scrawled with my name. In fact, there was nothing at all to indicate that Atlanta was even remotely aware of my arrival. This was disappointing, as it's not every day that the City of a Hundred Hills welcomes a man of my stature. Twenty-five, overweight, unemployed and recently "relocated" to my parents' house in New Jersey, I am truly a man in full. Read more ...
February 12, 2003
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Andrew, I hardly knew ye, yet verily a man in full!
Posted by dom on February 13, 2003 12:06 PM