>YOU KNOW YOU WORK IN CORPORATE AMERICA IN THE 90'S IF ...
>
> 1. Your resume is on a diskette in your pocket.
> 2. You order your business cards in "half orders" instead of whole boxes.
> 3. You get really excited about a 2% pay raise.
> 4. You learn about your layoff on CNN.
> 5. Your biggest loss from a system crash is that you lose your best jokes.
> 6. You sit in a cubicle smaller than your bedroom closet.
> 7. You think lunch is just a meeting to which you drive.
> 8. It's dark when you drive to and from work.
> 9. Fun is when issues are assigned to someone else.
>10. Communication is something your group is having problems with.
>11. You see a good looking person and know it is a visitor.
>12. Free food left over from meetings is your main staple.
>13. Weekends are those days your significant other makes you stay home.
>14. Being sick is defined as "can't walk or you're in the hospital".
>15. Art involves a white board.
>16. You're already late on the assignment you just got.
>17. Dilbert cartoons hang outside every cube and are read only by your
>co-workers.
>18. Your boss' favorite lines are, "When you get a few minutes" or "When
>you're freed up".
>19. Your boss' second favorite lines are, "...this isn't exactly what we
>need. It may be what we
> asked for, but things have changed."
>20. Vacation is something you rollover to next year, or you try to use up
>three weeks between
> Christmas and New Years because otherwise you will lose it.
>21. Your relatives and family describe your job as "works with computers".
>22. Change is the norm.
>23. The only reason you recognize your kids and friends is because their
>pictures are hanging in
> your cube.
>24. You only have makeup for fluorescent lighting.
>25. You read this entire list and understood it.
>
>
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