Lee's Funnies
You know you work in Corporate America in the 90's 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
-You order your business cards in "half orders" instead of
whole boxes
-When someone asks about what you do for a living, you lie
-You get really excited about a 2% pay raise
-You learn about your layoff on CNN
-Your biggest loss from a system crash is that you lose your
best jokes
-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
-You think lunch is just a meeting to which you drive
-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
-Free food left over from meetings is your main staple
-Weekends are those days your significant other makes you
stay home
-Being sick is defined as can't walk or you're in the
hospital
-Art involves a white board
-You're already late on the assignment you just got
-When 100% of your time means 20 hours, with 40 more hours
on the other 100% of your time.
-You work 200 hours for the $100 bonus check and jubilantly
say "Oh wow, thanks!"
-Dilbert cartoons hang outside every cube and are read by
your co-workers only
-Your boss' favorite lines are "when you get a few minutes"
or "when you're freed up"
-Your boss' second favorite lines are "this isn't exactly
what we need. It may be what we asked for, but things have
changed."
-Vacation is something you rollover to next year, or you try
to use up three weeks between Christmas and New Years
because otherwise you will lose it, or you get a check for
it every January
-Your relatives and family describe your job as "works with
computers"
-Change is the norm
-Nepotism is encouraged
-The only reason you recognize your kids and friends is
because their pictures are hanging in your cube
-You only have makeup for fluorescent lighting
-You read this entire list and understood it
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