GaganMatta
Gagandeep Matta
You Know You Work in the 21st century
when ...
� cleaning up the dining area means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
� your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they don�t have e-mail addresses.
� pick-up lines now include a reference to liquid assets and capital gains.
� you consider inner-office mail painfully slow.
� you refer to your dining room table as the flat filing cabinet.
� you lecture the neighborhood kids selling lemonade on ways to improve their process.
� you think "progressing an action plan" and "calendarizing a project" are acceptable English phrases.
� you refer to tomatoes grown in your garden as deliverables.
� you find you need PowerPoint to explain what you do for a living.
� you know the people at the airport hotels better than you know your neighbors.
� you ask your friends to "think out of the box" when you make your Friday night plans.
� you get excited when it�s Saturday so you can wear sweats to work.
� you think a "half-day" means leaving at 5 o�clock.
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Top Ten Signs the Pressures of the Job are Getting to You
10. You wake up in a panic. . . in the middle of an important CEO meeting.
9. You're paranoid that the plant-watering crew are IRS agents in disguise.
8. You get up from your desk to do something, and then forget what it was.
7. No one in your office smiles. . . at you.
6. Antacids are included on your expense report.
5. You want to quit, but you're addicted to the stress.
4. You chip a tooth biting on your pen.
3. Those funky-colored stress toys on your desk need retreading.
2. You're considering adding an HRMS to your appointment book.
1. You answer every phone call with "Mommy?"
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Top HR Book Titles That Never Got Published
No wonder you've never read "Temps and Asbestos Cleanup."
Concealed Weapons, OSHA and You
Temps and Asbestos Cleanup
How to Improve Retention Through the Use of Barbed Wire
Motivational Secrets, Methamphetamine-Style
A Guide to Interoffice Dating
Punish Them with Whips and Chains
A 40-Hour Work Week and Other Fairy Tales
Martha Stewart's Hand-Me-Down Rewards
Office Politics and the Return of the Gladiator Arena
Creatively Finance Your Company into Chapter 11
when ...
� cleaning up the dining area means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
� your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they don�t have e-mail addresses.
� pick-up lines now include a reference to liquid assets and capital gains.
� you consider inner-office mail painfully slow.
� you refer to your dining room table as the flat filing cabinet.
� you lecture the neighborhood kids selling lemonade on ways to improve their process.
� you think "progressing an action plan" and "calendarizing a project" are acceptable English phrases.
� you refer to tomatoes grown in your garden as deliverables.
� you find you need PowerPoint to explain what you do for a living.
� you know the people at the airport hotels better than you know your neighbors.
� you ask your friends to "think out of the box" when you make your Friday night plans.
� you get excited when it�s Saturday so you can wear sweats to work.
� you think a "half-day" means leaving at 5 o�clock.
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Top Ten Signs the Pressures of the Job are Getting to You
10. You wake up in a panic. . . in the middle of an important CEO meeting.
9. You're paranoid that the plant-watering crew are IRS agents in disguise.
8. You get up from your desk to do something, and then forget what it was.
7. No one in your office smiles. . . at you.
6. Antacids are included on your expense report.
5. You want to quit, but you're addicted to the stress.
4. You chip a tooth biting on your pen.
3. Those funky-colored stress toys on your desk need retreading.
2. You're considering adding an HRMS to your appointment book.
1. You answer every phone call with "Mommy?"
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Top HR Book Titles That Never Got Published
No wonder you've never read "Temps and Asbestos Cleanup."
Concealed Weapons, OSHA and You
Temps and Asbestos Cleanup
How to Improve Retention Through the Use of Barbed Wire
Motivational Secrets, Methamphetamine-Style
A Guide to Interoffice Dating
Punish Them with Whips and Chains
A 40-Hour Work Week and Other Fairy Tales
Martha Stewart's Hand-Me-Down Rewards
Office Politics and the Return of the Gladiator Arena
Creatively Finance Your Company into Chapter 11