You Know You’re a High Tech Worker If…

  • You 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.
  • Your company logo on your badge is applied with stick-um.
  • When someone asks about what you do for a living, you lie.
  • You learn about your layoff on CNN.
  • Your biggest loss from a system crash is that you lose your best jokes.
  • Your supervisor hasn’t the ability to do your job assignment.
  • 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.
  • Your home phone has none of the features you developed cuz you’re never there.
  • It’s dark when you drive to and from work.
  • Fun is when issues are assigned to someone else.
  • Communication is something your group is having problems with.
  • You see a good looking person and know it is a visitor.
  • A tie is hanging in your cube.
  • Free food left over from meetings is your main staple.
  • 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 work 200 hours for the $100 bonus check and jubilantly say “Oh wow, thanks!”
  • All real work gets started after 5pm or on weekends.
  • Everyone fights fires (i.e. problems).
  • Dilbert cartoons hang outside every cube.
  • Plants in your cube are healthier than your plants at home.
  • 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.”
  • 10% of the people you work with — no one (boss included) knows what they do.
  • Vacation is something you rollover to next year or a check you get every January.
  • Your relatives and family describe your job as “works with computers” or “does something with telephones.”
  • Change is the norm.
  • Nepotism is encouraged.
  • You only have makeup for fluorescent lighting.
  • You read this entire list and understood it.