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 buddy who works at the desk next to you.
  • You chat several times a day with a stranger from South America, but you haven't spoken to your next door neighbor 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  • You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date.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 U.S. Mail painfully slow and/or call it "snail mail".
  • Your idea of being organized is multiple colored 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's welcome sign is attached with Velcro.
  • Your resume is on a diskette in your pocket.
  • You really get excited about a 1.7% pay rise.
  • You learn about your redundancy on the 11 o'clock news.
  • Your biggest loss from a system crash was when you lost all of 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.
  • Your supervisor gets a brand-new state-of-the-art laptop with all the latest features, while you have time to go for lunch while yours boots 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.
  • Vacation time is something you roll over to the next year.
  • Every week another brown collection envelope comes around because someone you DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WORKED THERE is leaving.
  • 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.

AND THE CLINCHERS ARE:

  • You read this entire list, and kept nodding and smiling.
  • As you read this list, you think about forwarding it to your boss.