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You might work in Telecom 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 USB drive in your pocket.
4. Your company logo on your badge is applied with stick-um.
5. You have to call home to check the weather.
6. When someone asks about what you do for a living, you lie.
7. You get really excited about a 2% pay raise.
8. You learn about your layoff on CNN.
9. Your biggest loss from a system crash is that you lose your best jokes.
10. Your supervisor hasn't the ability to do your job assignment.
11. You sit in a cubicle smaller than your bedroom closet.
12. Salaries of the members on the Executive Board are higher than
all the Third World countries' annual budgets.
13. Your home phone has none of the features you developed cuz you're never there.
14. Your 2 yr. old kid knows how to get to your company and to your
cube. And is referred to as daddy's/mommy's room.
15. You think lunch is just a meeting to which you drive.
16. It's dark when you drive to and from work.
17. Fun is when issues are assigned to someone else.
18. Communication is something your group is having problems with.
19. You see a good-looking person and know it is a visitor.
20. A tie is hanging in your cube.
21. Free food left over from meetings is your main staple.
22. Weekends are those days your spouse makes you stay home.
23. Being sick is defined as can't walk or you're in the hospital.
24. Art involves a white board.
25. You're already late on the assignment you just got.
26. When 100% of your time means 20 hours.
27. You work 200 hours for the $100 bonus check and jubilantly say "Oh wow, thanks!"
28. All real work gets started after 5pm or on weekends.
29. Everyone fights fires (i.e. problems).
30. Dilbert cartoons hang outside every cube.
31. Plants in your cube are healthier than your plants at home.
32. 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”
33. 10% of the people you work with (boss included) knows what they do.
34. Vacation is something you rollover to next year or get a check every January.
35. Your relatives and family describe your job as "works with computers"
or "does something with telephones"
36. Change is the norm.
37. Nepotism is encouraged.
38. The only reason you recognize your kids is because their pictures
are hanging in your cube.
39. You only have makeup for fluorescent lighting.
40. Your coffee mug collection from the companies you have worked for
is as impressive as the degrees on the wall in your doctor's office.
41. You factor in severance pay into your annual budget.
42. Friends and family ask you to read their phone bill to make sure
they aren't being ripped off.
43. You eat out of a vending machine and at the most expensive
restaurant in town, in the same day.
44. You have a close group of friends, but only see each other at trade shows.
45. You choose to have a salary below poverty level in order to get stock options.
46. It takes a Power Point slide show to describe what you do.
47. You get a new Telecom Dictionary ever year, and it is still out dated.
48. You think moving to Washington DC or Dallas will keep you employed till retirement.
49. You tell all your friends to call you collect and then have your
programmer friends delete all your CDRs from your account.
50. SADLY ENOUGH, You read this entire list and understood it!