This is for all you engineers out there...
Posted by: tz8cy5 <tz8cy5@...>
* Someone asks about what you do for a living, you have to simplify it.
* 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.
* Your resume is on a diskette in your pocket.
* 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.
* It's dark when you drive to and from work.
* Fun is when issues are assigned to someone else.
* You see a good-looking person and know it is a visitor.
* 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.
* You work 200 hours for the ?100 bonus check and jubilantly say
"Oh wow, thanks!" (ya like you would ever get a bonus check!)
* All real work gets started after 5pm or on weekends.
* Everyone fights fires (i.e. problems).
* Dilbert cartoons hang inside every cube.
* Plants in your cube are healthier than your plants at home.
* Your boss's 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.
* Change is the norm.
* You only have makeup for fluorescent lighting.
* Moving targets are employees, goals, and budgets.
* You read this entire list and understand.