Life in the 00's
Posted: September 9, 2002 8:00 am
I thought this was kind of a phun thing phor a Monday morning...
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. Your supervisor doesn’t have the ability to do your job.
12. Contractors outnumber permanent staff and are more likely to get long-service awards.
13. Board members salaries are higher than all the Third World countries annual budgets combined.
14. Interviewees, despite not having relevant knowledge or experience, terminate the interview when told of the starting salary.
15. Free food left over from meetings is your staple diet.
16. 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.
17. Being sick is defined as you can’t walk or you’re in the hospital.
18. 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.
19. Your relatives and family describe your job as “works with computers”.
AND THE CLINCHER IS…
20. You read the entire list, and kept nodding and smiling.
GOD BLESS THE USA
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. Your supervisor doesn’t have the ability to do your job.
12. Contractors outnumber permanent staff and are more likely to get long-service awards.
13. Board members salaries are higher than all the Third World countries annual budgets combined.
14. Interviewees, despite not having relevant knowledge or experience, terminate the interview when told of the starting salary.
15. Free food left over from meetings is your staple diet.
16. 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.
17. Being sick is defined as you can’t walk or you’re in the hospital.
18. 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.
19. Your relatives and family describe your job as “works with computers”.
AND THE CLINCHER IS…
20. You read the entire list, and kept nodding and smiling.
GOD BLESS THE USA
