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YOU
KNOW YOU WORK IN CORPORATE NORTH AMERICA IN 2003 IF:
- You've sat at the same
desk for 4 years and worked for three different
companies.
- Your company welcome
sign is attached with Velcro.
- Your resume is on a
diskette in your pocket.
- When someone asks about
what you do for a living, you lie.
- You get really excited
about a 2% pay raise.
- Your biggest loss from a
system crash is that you lose your best jokes.
- Free food left over from
meetings is dinner tonight.
- Your supervisor doesn't
have the ability to do your job.
- You sit in a cubicle
smaller than your bedroom closet.
- Salaries of the members
on the Executive Board are higher than all the Third
World countries' annual budgets combined.
- You think lunch is just
a meeting to which you drive.
- It's dark when you drive
to and from work.
- Communication is
something your group is having problems with.
- You see a good looking
person and know it is a visitor.
- Weekends are those days
your spouse makes you stay home.
- Being sick is defined as
can't walk or you're in the hospital.
- You're already late on
the assignment you just got.
- When 100% of your time
means 20 hours.
- You work 200 hours for
the $100 bonus check and jubilantly say "Oh wow,
thanks!"
- Dilbert cartoons hang
outside every cube.
- Your boss' favorite
lines are "when you get a few minutes",
"in your spare time", "when you're freed
up", and "I have an opportunity for
you."
- Vacation is something
you roll over to next year OR a check you get every
January.
- Your relatives and
family describe your job as "works with
computers".
- Nepotism is
encouraged.
- The only reason you
recognize your kids is because their pictures are
hanging in your cube.
- You only have makeup for
fluorescent lighting.
- If only Dilbert could
see how funny your office was.
- Your entire dating life
revolves around who's new in the office.
- You read this entire
list and understood it.
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