- Signs That You've Had Too
Much Of The '90s:
- You try to enter your
password on the microwave.
- You haven't played
solitaire with real cards in years.
- You have a list of
15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
- You e-mail your buddy
who works at the desk next to you.
- You chat several times
a day with a stranger from South America,
but you haven't spoken to your next door neighbor yet this year.
- You buy a computer
and a week later it is out of date.
- Your reason for not
staying in touch with friends is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
- You consider the U.S.
Mail painfully slow and/or call it "snail mail".
- Your idea of being
organized is multiple colored post-it notes.
- You hear most of your
jokes via email instead of in person.
- When you go home after
a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business manner.
- When you make phone
calls from home, you accidentally insert a "9" to get an outside
line.
- You've sat at the
same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.
- Your company's welcome
sign is attached with Velcro.
- Your resume is on
a diskette in your pocket.
- You really get excited
about a 1.7% pay raise.
- You learn about your
redundancy on the 11 o'clock news.
- Your biggest loss
from a system crash was when you lost all of your best jokes.
- Contractors outnumber
permanent staff and are more likely to get long-service awards.
- Board members salaries
are higher than all the Third World countries annual budgets combined.
- It's dark when you
drive to and from work, even in the summer.
- You know exactly how
many days you've got left until you retire.
- Interviewees, despite
not having the relevant knowledge or
experience, terminate the interview when told of the starting salary.
- You see a good looking,
smart person and you know it must be a visitor.
- Free food left over
from meetings is your staple diet.
- Your supervisor gets
a brand-new state-of-the-art laptop with all
the latest features, while you have time to go for lunch while yours boots
up.
- Being sick is defined
as you can't walk or you're in hospital.
- You're already late
on the assignment you just got.
- Vacation time is something
you roll over to next year.
- Every week another
brown collection envelope comes around because
someone you DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WORKED THERE is leaving.
- Your relatives and
family describe your job as "works with computers".
- The only reason you
recognize your kids is because their pictures are on your desk.
- You only have makeup
for fluorescent lighting.
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- You read this entire
list, and kept nodding and smiling.
- As you read this list,
you think about forwarding it to your
friends you send jokes to as "e-mail group."
- It crosses your mind
that your jokes group may have seen this list already,
but you don't have time to check, so you forward it anyway.
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