Top 25 Signs You've Had Too Much of the 90's
- Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
- You have actually faxed your Christmas list to your parents.
- Pick up lines now include a reference to liquid assets and capital gains.
- You consider 2nd day air delivery painfully slow.
- You refer to your dining room table as the flat filing cabinet.
- You lecture the neighborhood kids selling lemonade on ways to improve their profits.
- You find you really need PowerPoint to explain what you do for a living.
- You know the people at the airport hotels better than you know your next door neighbors.
- You ask your friends to "think out of the box" when making Friday night plans.
- You think a "half day" means leaving at 5:00.
- You try to enter your password into the microwave.
- You haven't played solitaire with a REAL deck of cards in years.
- You have a list of 15 phone numbers just to reach your family of three.
- Your daughter sells Girl Scout cookies via her website.
- You've sat at the same desk for 4 years and worked for 3 different organizations.
- Your resume is in a diskette in your pocket.
- You get really excited about a 2% pay raise.
- You learn about your layoff on the news.
- Your supervisor doesn't have the ability to do your job.
- Salaries of the members on the Executive Board are higher than all the developing countries' GNP combined.
- Being sick is defined as "can't walk" or "in the hospital."
- You're already late on the work task you just got.
- You work 200 hours for a $100 bonus check.
- "Vacation" is something you roll over to next year, or a check you get every January.
- Your relatives and family describe your job as "working with computers".
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