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06-25-06, 01:13 PM
If you are a high tech worker, then you probably know all of this already.
You Know You Are A High Tech Worker When:
It's dark when you go to and from work.
You see a good looking woman in the plant and you know she's probably a visitor.
You've sat at the same desk for 4 years and worked for three different companies.
You keep your resumé on a flash memory stick in your pocket, because you never know when you might need it.
You learn about your layoff on CNN, the local news, or on a website called "F---edcompany.com".
You have, or have had, a boss who, when asked if there are going to be layoffs, answers "I haven't heard anything."
Your biggest loss from a system crash is that you lose your best jokes.
The employees who come to work dressed in baggy jeans or shorts, beach sandals, and over-sized t-shirts have mysterious job titles, and are all paid more than you.
Your boss can't do your job.
You sit in a cubicle smaller than your bedroom closet.
A lot of the company computers, office equipment, and lab equipment were purchased at auction, from other high tech companies that went out of business.
The security guards and maintenance personnel have been there the longest.
You've noticed an awful lot of employees whose only apparent function is to attend meetings.
Salaries of the top level managers are higher than a lot of third world countries' annual budgets. Your salary however, barely covers your rent or mortgage.
Your company actually employs someone whose apparent job is to make sure that desks, chairs, computers and wastebaskets are placed in strict accordance with the floor plan.
Weekends are those days your spouse makes you stay home.
They've taken away a laboratory, shop area, or other space where real work was done, because they needed the space for more conference rooms.
Being sick is defined one of two ways: you can't walk or you're in the hospital.
10% of the people you work with (boss included) -- knows what they do.
Your company president is a mysterious, enigmatic figure whom you see once per year, if that.
Vacation is something you rollover to next year.
The person who knows anything and everything about the company is the stock room guy.
You read "Dilbert" and you feel that the guy who draws it must work in your company somewhere.
On at least one occasion, everyone received a pay raise of about 2%, but at about the same time, everyone also received nice coffee mugs with the company logo on them.
Your relatives and family describe your job as "works with computers" or "does something in electronics"
You read this entire list and understood it.
You Know You Are A High Tech Worker When:
It's dark when you go to and from work.
You see a good looking woman in the plant and you know she's probably a visitor.
You've sat at the same desk for 4 years and worked for three different companies.
You keep your resumé on a flash memory stick in your pocket, because you never know when you might need it.
You learn about your layoff on CNN, the local news, or on a website called "F---edcompany.com".
You have, or have had, a boss who, when asked if there are going to be layoffs, answers "I haven't heard anything."
Your biggest loss from a system crash is that you lose your best jokes.
The employees who come to work dressed in baggy jeans or shorts, beach sandals, and over-sized t-shirts have mysterious job titles, and are all paid more than you.
Your boss can't do your job.
You sit in a cubicle smaller than your bedroom closet.
A lot of the company computers, office equipment, and lab equipment were purchased at auction, from other high tech companies that went out of business.
The security guards and maintenance personnel have been there the longest.
You've noticed an awful lot of employees whose only apparent function is to attend meetings.
Salaries of the top level managers are higher than a lot of third world countries' annual budgets. Your salary however, barely covers your rent or mortgage.
Your company actually employs someone whose apparent job is to make sure that desks, chairs, computers and wastebaskets are placed in strict accordance with the floor plan.
Weekends are those days your spouse makes you stay home.
They've taken away a laboratory, shop area, or other space where real work was done, because they needed the space for more conference rooms.
Being sick is defined one of two ways: you can't walk or you're in the hospital.
10% of the people you work with (boss included) -- knows what they do.
Your company president is a mysterious, enigmatic figure whom you see once per year, if that.
Vacation is something you rollover to next year.
The person who knows anything and everything about the company is the stock room guy.
You read "Dilbert" and you feel that the guy who draws it must work in your company somewhere.
On at least one occasion, everyone received a pay raise of about 2%, but at about the same time, everyone also received nice coffee mugs with the company logo on them.
Your relatives and family describe your job as "works with computers" or "does something in electronics"
You read this entire list and understood it.