Journals / Knowing You're Working in the Century

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How do you get to know you're in the 21st century?

Well here are some typical situations that will drive home the point and help you realize what it means to be a worker in the 21st century!!

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You Know You Work in the '21st century when...

  1. ... cleaning up the dining area means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
  2. ... your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.
  3. ... pick-up lines now include a reference to liquid assets and capital gains.
  4. ... you consider inner-office mail painfully slow.
  5. ... you refer to your dining room table as the flat filing cabinet.
  6. ... you lecture the neighbourhood kids selling lemonade on ways to improve their process.
  7. ... you think "progressing an action plan" and "calendarizing a project" are acceptable English phrases.
  8. ... you refer to tomatoes grown in your garden as deliverables.
  9. ... you find you need PowerPoint to explain what you do for a living.
  10. ... you know the people at the airport hotels better than you know your neighbors.
  11. ... you ask your friends to "think out of the box" when you make your Friday night plans.
  12. ... you get excited when it's Saturday so you can wear sweats to work.
  13. ... you think a "half-day" means leaving at 5 o'clock.
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