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Living in 2001 
You know you're
living in the 00's when:
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 three.
4. You e-mail your
buddy who works at the desk next to you.
5. Your reason for
not staying in touch with friends is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
6. When you go home
after a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business manner.
7. When you make
phone calls from home, you accidentally insert a "9" to get an outside
line.
8. You've sat at
the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.
9. Your company's
welcome sign is attached with Velcro.
10. Your resume
is on a diskette in your pocket.
11. You learn about
your redundancy on the 11 'clock news.
12. Your biggest
loss from a system crash was when you lost all of your best jokes.
13. Your supervisor
doesn't have the ability to do your job.
14. Contractors
outnumber permanent staff and are more likely to get long-service awards.
15. Board members
salaries are higher than all the Third World countries annual budgets
combined.
16. Interviewees,
despite not having the relevant knowledge or experience, terminate the
interview when told of the starting salary.
17. Free food left
over from meetings is your staple diet.
18. Your supervisor
gets a brand-new state-of-the-art laptop with all the latest features,
while you have time to go to lunch while yours boots up.
19. Being sick is
defined as you can't walk or you're in the hospital.
20. There's no money
in the budget for the five permanent staff your department desperately
needs, but they can afford four full-time management consultants advising
your boss's boss on strategy.
21. Your relatives
and family describe your job as "works with computers".
AND THE CLINCHERS
ARE...
22. You read this
entire list, and kept nodding and smiling.
23. As you read
this list, you think about forwarding it to your "friends".
24. 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.
25. You got this
e-mail from a friend that never talks to you anymore, except to send you
jokes from the net.
This was sent
through the WWA mailing list by Julie *Cookies*:-) Thanks Julie!!
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