Former dot-com workers crowd homeless

15Jun2001 Filed under: Zomg blogger archives

Former dot-com workers crowd homeless shelters
John Sacrosante, who earned more than $100,000 a year as a free-lance database engineer, spent his 39th birthday last week with the “brothers” he met at the church shelter where he has been living.

“We’re all equal here,” Sacrosante said. “When you’re used to making six figures and working in a dynamic and exciting environment and all of a sudden it goes away, you do have a nice little world of depression going on.”

This is not from The Onion, folks. This is from Salon. That being said, I love that this guy talks about how hard it is to leave a “dynamic and exciting environment.” Is there a 12-step program for letting go of Web Employee Jargon?

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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.

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