You Know You're Living In 2002 When...

1. You have 5 passwords, but can only remember one.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.

4. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends is they do not have e-mail addresses.

5. When you go home after a long day at work you answer the phone in abusiness manner.

6. When you make phone calls from home, you accidentally dial "0" for an outside line.

7. You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.

8. Your company's welcome sign is attached with velcro.

9. Your CV is on a floppy disk in your pocket.

10. You learn about your redundancy on the 11am news.

11. Your biggest loss from a system crash was a doc with all your best jokes.

12. Your supervisor doesn't have the skills to do your job.

13. Contractors outnumber permanent staff and are more likely to get long-service awards.

14. Top exec salaries are higher than the combined budgets of Third World countries.

15. Interviewees, lacking relevant knowledge & experience, terminate the interview when told of the starting salary.

16. Free food left over from meetings is your staple diet.

17. Your supervisor gets a state-of-the-art laptop while you have time to go for lunch while yours boots up.

18. Being sick is defined as being unable to walk or being hospitalised.

19. There's no money in the budget for the five permanent staff your team desperately needs, but the Dept can afford four full-time management consultants advising your boss's boss on strategy.

20. Your relatives and family describe your job as "works with computers".

    AND THE CLINCHERS ARE...

21. You read this list and kept nodding and smiling.

22. As you read it, you think about forwarding it to your "friends".

23. It crosses your mind that your jokes group may have seen this already, but you don't have time to check so you forward it anyway.

24. You got this email from a friend who never talks to you anymore, except to send you jokes from the Net.

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