1. You try to enter your password on the microwave.
2. You haven't played patience 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 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".
5. 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.
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 You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date.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 Royal Mail painfully slow or call it "snail mail".
9. Your idea of being organised is multiple coloured 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 phonecalls from home, you accidentally insert a "9" to get an outside line.
You know you work in the 90s when:
1. You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.
2. Your company welcome sign is attached with Velcro.
3. Your CV is on a diskette in your pocket.
4. You really get excited about a 1.7% pay rise.
5. You learn about your redundancy on the 9o'clock news.
6. Your biggest loss from a system crash is that you lose all your best jokes.
7. Your supervisor doesn't have the ability to do your job.
8. Contractors outnumber permanent staff and are more likely to get long-service awards.
9. Board members salaries are higher than all the Third World countries annual budgets combined.
10.It's dark when you drive to and from work,even in the summer.
11.You know exactly how many days you've got left until you retire.
12.Interviewees, despite not having the relevant knowledge or experience, terminate the interview when told of the starting salary.
13.You see a good looking, smart person and you know it must be a visitor.
14.Free food left over from meetings is your staple diet.
15.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.
16. Being sick is defined as you can't walk or you're in hospital
17. You're already late on the assignment you just got.
18. 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.
19. 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
20. Holiday is something you roll over to next year or a cheque you get in January.
21. Every week another brown collection envelope comes round because someone you didn't know had started is leaving.
22. You wonder who's going to be left to put into your 'leaving'collection.
23. Your relatives and family describe your job as "works with computers".
24. The only reason you recognise your kids is because their their photos are on your desk.
25. You only have makeup for fluorescent lighting.
26. You read this entire list, kept nodding and you understood it.
27. You were thinking about forwarding this to your "jokes" list.
28. You can't be bothered to check if this has already been posted to the jokes newgroup so you forward it anyway
29. Everyone you want to forward this to has already left and become a Company in their own right.
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