Do You Work For a High Tech Company?

You know you are at a high tech company if:

1. You sat at the same desk for 4 years and worked for three different companies.
2. Your company welcome sign is attached with Velcro.
3. Your resume is on a diskette in your pocket.
4. Your company logo on your badge is applied with stick-um.
5. When someone asks about what you do for a living, you lie.
6. You learn about your layoff on CNN.
7. Your biggest loss from a system crash is that you lose your best jokes.
8. Your supervisor hasn't the ability to do your job assignment.
9. You sit in a cubicle smaller than your bedroom closet.
10. Salaries of the members on the Executive Board are higher than all the Third World countries' annual budgets combined.
11. Your home phone has none of the features you developed cuz you're never there.
12. It's dark when you drive to and from work.
13. Fun is when issues are assigned to someone else.
14. Communication is something your group is having problems with.
15. You see a good looking person and know it is a visitor.
16. A tie is hanging in your cube.
17. Free food left over from meetings is your main staple.
18. Weekends are those days your spouse makes you stay home.
19. Being sick is defined as can't walk or you're in the hospital.
20. You work 200 hours for the $100 bonus check and jubilantly say "Oh wow, thanks!"
21. All real work gets started after 5pm or on weekends.
22. Everyone fights fires (i.e. problems).
23. Dilbert cartoons hang outside every cube.
24. Plants in your cube are healthier than your plants at home.
25. 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."
26. 10% of the people you work with - no one (boss included) knows what they do.
27. Vacation is something you rollover to next year or a check you get every January.
28. Your relatives and family describe your job as "works with computers" or "does something with telephones"
29. Change is the norm.
30. Nepotism is encouraged.
31. You only have makeup for fluorescent lighting.
32. You read this entire list and understood it.