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Too Much Of The 90s
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 work colleague at the desk next to you to ask "Do
you fancy going down the pub?" and they reply "Yeah, give me five minutes".
- You chat several times a day with a stranger from South America,
but you haven't spoken to your next door neighbour 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- You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date.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 royal mail painfully slow or call it "snail mail".
- Your idea of being organised is multiple coloured 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 welcome sign is attached with Velcro.
- Your CV is on a diskette in your pocket.
- You really get excited about a 1.7% pay raise.
- You learn about your redundancy on the 9 o'clock news.
- Your biggest loss from a system crash is that you lose all your best
jokes.
- Your supervisor doesn't have the ability to do your job.
- 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.
- The work experience person gets a brand-new state-of-the-art laptop
with all the features, while you have time to go for lunch while yours
powers 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.
- There's no money in the budget for the five permanent staff your
department is short of, but they can afford four full-time management
consultants advising your boss's boss on strategy.
- Your boss's favourite lines are: When you've got a few minutes...Could
you fit this in...?...in your spare time...when you're freed up...I
know you're busy but...I have an opportunity for you
- Holiday is something you roll over to next year.
- Every week another brown collection envelope comes round because
someone you didn't know had started is leaving.
- You wonder who's going to be left to put into your 'leaving' collection.
- 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.
- You read this entire list, kept nodding and smiling.
- As you read this list, you think about forwarding it to your "mates
you send jokes to" e-mail group.
- It crosses your mind that your jokes group may have seen this list
already, but you can't be bothered to check so you forward it anyway.
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