1. You accidentally enter your PIN on the microwave.
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.
3.5. You don’t have a list of phone numbers, because they’re all stored on your cell phone.
4. You e-mail your friend who works at the desk next to you.
4.5. You forward an e-mail to your wife via your wireless laptop, who is sitting next to you working at her wireless laptop.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
6. When you go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business manner.
6.5. You work at home, and answer your home phone in a business manner between 8 and 5.
7. When you make phone calls from home, you accidentally dial “9” to get an outside line.
8. You’ve sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.
10. You learn you’ve been laid off on the 11 o’clock news.
11. Your boss doesn’t have the ability to do your job.
12. Contractors outnumber permanent staff at your office and are more likely to get long-service awards.
13. You read this entire list, and kept nodding and smiling.
14. As you read this list, you think about forwarding it to your “friends.”
15. You got this e-mail from a friend that never talks to you any more, except to send you jokes from the Net.
16. You are too busy to notice there was no #9.
16.5. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn’t a #9.
(via my folks)
So, in what year am I living? None of those applied to me! I don’t even have a cell phone, much less a laptop! (I do have a microwave, though. And a PIN!)
I totally agree. But I found the glossary to the right far more useful. (All this time, I’ve been embarrassed to ask!)
Glad you found the glossary helpful!
As to the rest — well I found myself identifying with it …