You Know You’ve Worked During the 90s If….

  • 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’ gross national products combined.
  • It’s dark when you drive to and from work.
  • Communication is something your section is having problems with.
  • Free food left over from meetings is your main staple.
  • 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.”
  • Your business cards are no longer correct just one month after you receive them.
  • You have every “Cup-A-Soup” brand known to man in your desk drawer.
  • You have no hobbies that do not involve an electronic device.
  • During any outside-of-work event that vaguely resembles a social activity, your coworkers outnumber your family members.
  • You must fill in your own job performance evaluations and target goals because no one else really knows what you do anyway. Besides, the HR Department was outsourced last month.
  • Your biggest loss from a system crash is that you’ve lost your bestjokes.
  • You read this entire list and understood it.