You Know You're Living In 2002 When...
* You try to
enter your password on the microwave;
* You have 5 passwords, but can only remember one;
* You now think of three espressos as "getting wasted";
* You haven't played solitaire with a real deck of cards in years;
* You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3;
* When you make phone calls from home, you accidentally insert a "9" to get an
outside line;
* Your company's welcome sign is attached with Velcro;
* When you go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business
manner;
* You e-mail your buddy who works at the desk next to you;
* Your resume is on a diskette in your pocket;
* Your idea of being organized is multiple coloured post-it notes;
* You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies;
* Your biggest loss from a system crash was when you lost all of your best joe-ks;
* Your supervisor doesn't have the ability to do your job;
* 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;
* Free food left over from meetings is your staple diet;
* Being sick is defined as "you can't walk" or "you're in hospital";
* Contractors outnumber permanent staff and are more likely to get long-service awards;
* There's no money in the budget for the five permanent staff your department desperately
needs, but they can afford four full-time management consultants advising your boss's boss
on strategy;
* Board members salaries are higher than all the Third World countries annual budgets
combined;
* Interviewees, despite not having relevant knowledge or experience, terminate the
interview when told of the starting salary;
* Your relatives and family describe your job as "works with computers";
* You e-mail your son in his room to tell him that dinner is ready, and he emails you back
"What's for dinner?";
* You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but you haven't spoken
to your next door neighbour yet this year;
* You didn't give your valentine a card this year, but you posted one for your email
buddies via a Web page;
* Your daughter just bought on CD all the records your college roommate used to play that
you most despised;
* Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site;
* You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date and now sells for half the price
you paid;
* The concept of using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase is
foreign to you;
* Cleaning up the dining area means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of
your car;
* Your reason for not staying in touch with family & friends is that they do not have
e-mail addresses;
* You consider 2nd day air delivery painfully slow;
* You refer to your dining room table as the flat filing cabinet;
* You read this entire list, and kept nodding and smiling...