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Your employment ... can you relate?

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#1 ·
You Work in Corporate America If...

- You sat at the same desk for 4 years and worked for three different companies.

- Your company welcome sign is attached with Velcro.

- Your resume is on a diskette in your pocket.

- Your company logo on your badge is applied with stick-um.

- You order your business cards in "half orders" instead of whole boxes.

- When someone asks about what you do for a living, you lie.

- You get really excited about a 2% pay raise.

- You learn about your layoff on CNN.

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

- You sit in a cubicle smaller than your bedroom closet.

- Salaries of the members on the Executive Board are higher than all the Third World countries' annual budgets combined.

- You think lunch is just a meeting to which you drive.

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

- Fun is when issues are assigned to someone else.

- Communication is something your group is having problems with.

- You see a good looking person and know they're a visitor.

- Free food left over from meetings is your main staple of your diet.

- Weekends are those days your significant other makes you stay home.

- Art involves a white board.

- You're already late on the assignment you just got.
 
#2 ·
Naah.

Three hundred acres of beautiful Hampshire parkland surrounded by farmland and only four miles away from Winchester, which is described as 'the best town in the UK to live in' and has a cathedral that Frank Sinatra sung about.

We design the computers and software that actually 'run the world', have lots of pretty girls, and two traditional English pubs a five minute walk away though the churchyard.

I've been there thirty five year and am now 'semi retired' on full pension of 67% of the highest salary I ever had, plus the state pension has just kicked in, and get paid too :p

And it's only a ten mile drive to the most 'prestigious' chalkstream in the world, so I can pop over there when I decide I've done enough work for the day :D
 
#8 ·
- Your resume is on a diskette in your pocket.
What's a diskette? :confused: :p

- You order your business cards in "half orders" instead of whole boxes.
Never in my 37 years of working did I get quarter-way through one box of business cards before they were replaced with a new version - which was always provided as 2 full boxes. :rolleyes: I guess it was an indication of being an unimportant farty if you had to throw away so many each time. :eek:

- Free food left over from meetings ...
Now you are talking. Highlight of the week! :thumbs:

Col
 
#10 ·
My happiest day was when I learned that Corporate in Chicago had spare cash in the " Moose Fund" and we're going to offer it to Europe Middle East and Africa to facilitate restructure ... I told my VP, I'll make it easy for you, you want a head on the wall I'm your boy :D. So out at 60 . :wine: last 10 months spent doing whatever I want. I don't miss corporate bolleaux at all.

The best bit ? No more death by PowerPoint.
 
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