You can tell you've had too much 
of the 90s when... 

1. You try to enter your password 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. 

4. You e-mail your work colleague at the desk next to you to 
ask "Wanna go for a drink?" and they reply "Yeah, give me five 
minutes". 

5. You chat several times a day with a stranger from South 
America, but you haven't spoken to your next door neighbor yet 
this year. 

6. You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date. 

7. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends is that 
they do not have e-mail addresses. 

8. You consider US Mail painfully slow and call it "snailmail". 

9. Your idea of being organized is multiple colored post-it 
notes. 

10. You hear all good jokes via email instead of in person. 

11. When you go home after a long day at work you still answer 
the phone with your company's name. 

12. When you make phone calls from home, you accidentally dial 
"9" to get an outside line. 

13. You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for 
three different companies. 

14. Your company welcome sign is attached with Velcro. 

15. Your resume is on a diskette in your pocket. 

16. You really get excited about a 1.7% pay rise. 

17. Your biggest loss from a system crash is that you lose all 
your best jokes. 

18. Temps in your department outnumber permanent staff and are 
more likely to get long-service awards. 

19. Board members salaries are higher than all the Third World 
countries annual budgets combined. 

20. It's dark when you drive to and from work. 

21. Free food left over from meetings is your staple diet. 

22. The intern gets a brand-new state-of-the-art laptop with all 
the features, while you have time to go for lunch while yours 
powers up. 

23. Being sick is defined as 'you can't walk' or 'you're in the 
hospital'. 

24. You're already late on the assignment you just got. 

25. There's no money in the budget for the five permanent staff 
your department is short, but they can afford four full-time 
management consultants advising your boss's boss on strategy. 

26. Your boss's favorite lines are: When you've got a few 
minutes...Could you fit this in?...in your spare time...when you're 
freed up...I know you're busy but...I have an opportunity for you. 

27. Every week another brown collection envelope comes around 
because someone you didn't even know had started is leaving. 

28. You wonder who's going to be left to put into your 'leaving' 
collection. 

29. Your relatives and family describe your job as "works with 
computers". 

30. The only reason you recognize your kids is because their 
pictures are on your desk. 

31. You only have makeup for fluorescent lighting. 

32. You've run out of family member's birthdays to use for all 
of the ATM and banking PINs, email passwords, computer codes, and 
voicemail IDs you need to remember. 

33. You read this entire list, kept nodding and smiling. 

34. As you read this list, you thought about forwarding it to 
your "friends you send jokes to" e-mail group. 

35. It crosses your mind that your jokes group may have seen 
this list already, but you can't be bothered to check so you forward 
it anyway.