Friday, January 22, 2010

Too much of 1990s

SIGNS THAT YOU'VE HAD TOO MUCH OF THE 90's:

1. You try to enter your password on the microwave.
2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
4. You e-mail your buddy who works at the desk next to you.
5. 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.
6. You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date.
7. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
8. You consider the U.S. Mail painfully slow and/or call it "snail mail".
9. Your idea of being organized is multiple colored post-it notes.
10. You hear most of your jokes via email instead of in person.
11. When you go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business manner.
12. When you make phone calls from home, you accidentally insert a "9" to get an outside line.
13. You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.
14. Your company's welcome sign is attached with Velcro.
15. Your resume is on a diskette in your pocket.
16. You learn about your redundancy on the 11 o'clock news.
17. Your supervisor doesn't have the ability to do your job.
18. Board members salaries are higher than all the Third World countries annual budgets combined.
19. It's dark when you drive to and from work, even in the summer.
20. Interviewees, despite not having the relevant knowledge of experience, terminate the interview when told of the starting salary.
21. Free food left over from meetings is your staple diet.
22. Being sick is defined as you can't walk or you're in hospital.
23. You're already late on the assignment you just got.
24. Vacation time is something you roll over to next year.
25. Every week another brown collection envelope comes around because someone you DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WORKED THERE is leaving.
26. Your relatives and family describe your job as "works with computers".
27. The only reason you recognize your kids is because their pictures are on your desk.
28. You only have makeup for fluorescent lighting.
29. You read this entire list, and kept nodding and smiling.
30. As you read this list, you think about forwarding it to your "friends you send jokes to" e-mail group.