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microserf

noun

Etymology

Blend of Microsoft + serf. Probably coined by Douglas Coupland in his 1995 novel Microserfs, which chronicles the lives of coders who work for Microsoft.

  1. derived from servus — “slave, serf, servant”
  2. derived from serf
  3. inherited from serf
  4. compounded as microserf — “Microsoft + serf”

Definitions

  1. A person working for Microsoft in a low-level position.

  2. A person working in a low-paid service industry position using information technologies,…

    A person working in a low-paid service industry position using information technologies, usually with only basic qualifications, unable to move to a higher-paid position.

  3. Alternative letter-case form of microserf.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for microserf. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA