You Know You Work In The 90s When...

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You Know You Work In The 90s When...

1. Cleaning up the dining area means getting the fast-food bags out of the back seat of your car.
2. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they don't have email addresses.
3. Keeping up with sports entails adding ESPN's home page to your bookmarks.
4. You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.
5. You normally eat out of vending machines and at the most expensive restaurant in town within the same week.
6. Your company welcome sign is attached with velcro.
7. Your CV is on a disk in your pocket.
8. You really get excited about a 1.7% pay rise.
9. You get all excited when it's Saturday so you can wear sweats to work.
10. You learn about your redundancy on the 9 o'clock news.
11. Your biggest loss from a system crash is that you lose all your best jokes.
12. Your supervisor doesn't have the ability to do your job.
13. Contractors outnumber permanent staff and are more likely to get long-service awards.
14. Board members salaries are higher than all the Third World countries annual budgets combined.
15. It's dark when you drive to and from work, even in the summer.
16. You know exactly how many days you've got left until you retire.
17. Interviewees, despite not having the relevant knowledge or experience, terminate the interview when told of the starting salary.
18. You see a good looking; smart person and you know it must be a visitor.
19. Free food left over from meetings is your staple diet.
20. 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.
21. Being sick is defined as you can't walk or you're in hospital.
22. You're already late on the assignment you just got.
23. 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.
24. Holiday is something you roll over to next year or a cheque you get in January.
25. Every week another brown collection envelope comes round because someone you didn't know at work is leaving.
26. Your relatives and family describe your job as "works with computers".
27. Everyone you want to forward this to has already left and become a company in their own right.
28. You read this entire list, kept nodding and you understood it.
29. The only reason you recognise your kids is because their pictures are on your desk.
30. Your boss's favourite lines are: 

• Could you fit this in....
• In your spare time....
• When you're free....
• I know you're busy but....
• I have an opportunity for you....
• When you've got a few minutes....